Discussion on: How many meetings do you have per week?

[Joe Mainwaring]

I was pretty meeting heavy when I was in a lead engineer role, but I still managed to get 4-6 hours daily to focus on code.

Some things I did to help balance meetings with getting things done:

• Require meetings to have agendas, otherwise I would not attend
• negotiate with other stakeholders on timing & frequency
• consider meetings optional if a team member was taking the lead