Meetings
Nov 25, 05:01 PM by Eric Allen
Some people are detail-oriented, and some are big-picture types. A healthy mix of the two is crucial for any successful team. However, I’m not sure putting the two types in the same meeting is ever a good idea. I just spent two hours listening to discussions of minute details for a project that we don’t even want to do right now. Before even answering the most basic questions, like “can we afford to do this?” my detail-oriented teammate went crazy on all of the details of the project. It was amazingly boring and unproductive. At least our manager had the sense to realize we’d wasted at least $250 of developer time screwing around!
I’m going to take this as a lesson to avoid putting detail-oriented and big-picture people in the same meetings. Keep the communication between the two types asynchronous and mediated if possible. Putting them together just wastes time.
