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📣 gls2ro

What kind of meetings do you have during a week?


I would like to see how many meetings do you normally have in a week and what are the name of them.

Sometimes I have the feeling there are too many and sometimes I have the feeling that I am missing something while reading some article about a development framework a company is using to collaborate and build.


  👤 Findeton Accepted Answer ✓
I normally have three meetings over the week. One short team meeting to spread the work, a stand-up to present what we're doing this week to the rest of the company,and a stand-down on Friday to present what we've done. Total amount: 30+15+60 = less than 2h.

👤 gls2ro
Here are my experiences so far:

1. When I was working full time as a developer:

Weekly:

- Daily meetings every day for 15 minutes

- Sprint Planning for 2-4 hours

- Sprint Retro for 1-2 hours

- Sprint Review for 2-3 hours

- from 1 to 3 meetings with PO or PM - some grooming some about other stuff - in total 1-2 hours

- 1-on-1 for about 15 to 30 minutes

Other intervals:

- Once per month a Heart-beat with other teams

- Once per two months (maybe three) a company wide meeting of 1 hour (which usually took about 3 hours including going to the big hall and discussions afterwards)

2. When I was working as Product Manager or Product Owner I could say that most of my time was spent in meetings.

- meetings with other Product Mangers or Domain Managers

- meetings with customers

- meetings with the team (Planning, Review) or on-demand

- meetings with top management about different strategic initiatives

- 1-on-1 with my manager


👤 sumanthvepa
Usually about 2-5. But I am a small business owner, so I have relatively full control of my time.