Diego Pacheco Tech blog

Meetings are part of our day-by-day activities. All companies do meetings, which probably is the most common practice ever. However little is done to change or even improve such practice. How many times do you see people cleaning up meetings, meaning analytically and systemically removing meetings as a regular activity? During the 2020 pandemic, everything became a meeting resulting in a Zoom call. Do you want to troubleshoot some problem, you need a meeting, do you need to ask your friend how is he going, guess what? You need a meeting.

Right now, everything is different due to COVID-19. Even before the COVID-19 meetings were often seen as the one tool to fix all sorts of problems. Meetings can have value if you have a clear agenda and people get prepared before the meeting which never happens so meetings tend to bring lots of waste and kill engineering productivity because it becomes flow killer. The reason why meetings are a goto tool for every kind of problem because it's easier, however, the price is high: Affects Engineering productivity because it's an interruption and often things dont get done and you need more meetings. So you might be wondering what we can do about it, well there is plenty of things we can do about but in order for any solution to work we need to have Discipline which is hard, that's why lots of meetings continue to happen. I'm and always was a huge Chat fan. In the past, I used Skype, Atlassian Hipchat, Teams, and Slack for the last 6 years these tools are great because t...