Comments on: Agile Development in Interaction Design…Too Many Meetings?

By: Sally ala Fixpert

Sally ala Fixpert — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:10:09 +0000

Haha, lately a small group of us have been deciding on a word or phrase before our meeting that we are challenging each other to work into the meeting somehow, like “lock box” or “tighten up.” Then we get the giggles when someone says it.

The calendar shown here is the lovely iCal, from Apple.

By: abhilash

abhilash — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:37:29 +0000

Wow I hate meetings. They’re so abhorrently necessary it’s uncomfortable. Sales meetings are good when they’re short and enthusiastic. But those management meetings are BRUTAL. During those especially long ones I try to amuse myself by coming up with good nicknames for all the others around the table.

That said, the calendar screenshot is what caught my eye–which calendar were you using??

By: JP

JP — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:02:37 +0000

I don’t think I need to re-hash my philosophy of meetings, but I never understood why people like to have so many unless they are intentionally trying to stay away from their desks. I suspect that in the case of middle management, this is often true. After all, that is the layer of the cake that gets paid merely to be a catalyst. Consequently, if they’re not in a meeting with subordinates, they are either in meetings with superiors accounting for lack of productivity, or sitting at their desk pretending to be busy.