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Victoria - You make a good point. In our daily scrum meetings (which are
supposed to be limited to 15 minutes), if there is an issue that needs more
discussion, it is considered a follow on meeting and only those necessary
stay. But, that is only for the scrum meetings. We have one meeting in
particular that is scheduled for one hour each week. For some reason, the
leader of the meeting feels the need to use the entire hour, even if it's
not a productive discussion. To some degree this can be enjoyable because it
gets the team "chatting" but when you are busy, it's tough to not say
anything. And, I can't use the conflicting meeting idea because the hour has
been previously blocked out.
> At a former place, we actually started to enforce a formal process in
> meetings where those kinds of "45 minute discussion on an issue" issues
> would be noted and followed up on after the meeting or during a
> different meeting. After about three grumble-filled document review
> meetings where there was resistance against any new process, the
> grumbling stopped and everyone else started doing the same thing in
> their own meetings.
>
> Project status meetings started taking about 10 minutes for all the
> required attendees, with 10-15 minutes of discussion with a smaller
> group. You were always welcome to stay and listen to the discussion or
> go on your merry way. Man, was that nice.
>
> - V
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