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What about an 8 hour meeting with 25 people? Sadly, this is not an exaggeration...



I know it's not, for we had an 8 hour meeting with 50 people -- the entire dev team.


Did the meeting have any positive outcomes?


Everyone is now trained on the department-wide foobar system that is expected to save 200 man-hours each year. No, don't do the math! Stop doing the math! Pencils down!


The goal was to plan a milestone for the end of the next 8 weeks. Since progress at software orgs is about as predictable as weather, I'll leave it to your imagination how effective these meetings were at mapping work.




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