Meetings can help projects by sharing knowledge but can also kill projects if they steal time away from development. The author leads a team of 50 Java developers working on 25 projects and 8 customers, with over 300,000 lines of code. He argues that meetings should respect programmers and blame projects, not people, and that a project's goal is to acquire knowledge, not bring people to meetings, as meetings can steal valuable time away from advancing the project.

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Meetings Help
Us And Kill Our
Projects
Yegor Bugayenko
@yegor256

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50 Java developers;
25 projects;
8 customers;
300K+ LoC
www.teamed.io

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theft

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“I don’t understand,
explain it to me.”

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KB

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KB

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it’s not a school!

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a project must
acquire knowledge,
not people

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respect programmers,
blame the project

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meetings steal from
the project

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what do you think?
@yegor256
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help/kill