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Migration in progress (long one, lasting over a month)

PM: Let's schedule a meeting to discuss migration progress

PM: Let's schedule a meeting to agree on what should we test

PM: Let's schedule a meeting to get specs of the new infra

Seriously, PMs. One 1 hour long meeting costs at least 4 hours of productive time (1 hour for travel, 1 hour for the meeting, 1+ hour for preparing for the meeting, 1+ hour for post-meeting discussions). And more often than not all meetings end with "We will come back to you later in regards to <some question not answered during meeting>" and it always means "we'll continue this chat via emails"

Why can't you first ask "do we need a meeting or can we sort this out via email?" ??? Or are you intentionally wasting everyone's time?

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  • 1
    Exactly, I feel your u man. Recently I somehow bacame a kind of PM however don’t have one or 2 but about 50 cause they are small projects they say :D
  • 0
    Some people just like being in control and that is the only reason they want these meetings
  • 0
    I have come to just decline such shit meetings where I can't prepare because the other side can't even be bothered to elaborate their points/questions. Then it's just "sorry, no meeting".
  • 4
    All managers do is talk. If they're not talking, they feel like they aren't doing their job.

    They don't realize that talking and working are mutually exclusive.
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