Meetings

Engineering meetings have a bad reputation, and much of it is earned. Too many meetings are called when an async message would suffice, run without a clear purpose, and end without decisions or next steps. The people who attend feel their time was wasted. The people who called the meeting often didn’t accomplish what they intended. This post is specifically about the meetings that matter at the staff engineer level: design reviews, architectural decision meetings, technical alignment sessions, and cross-team coordination. These are meetings worth doing well — they’re how complex technical work gets coordinated. The goal is not to eliminate them but to make them actually work. ...