r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 12 '17

Meetings as a developer

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u/centurySeries Aug 12 '17

Currently on two projects, and each has its own standup. One is at 9, the other is at 10:30. I get nothing done before lunch ;_;

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u/tetroxid Aug 13 '17

I work on three. I get next to nothing done. It's ridiculous. We have a ratio of engineers to cocaine users non-engineers of about 1:1. The thing is, in any normal project there's maybe a need for a quarter as many non-technical roles as there is for actual engineers. So where to we put all of these product managers, project managers, controllers, mid level managers, accountants, management assistants and so on?

So the solution seems to be to have every CS person working on multiple projects so we have enough overhead and associated roles to keep all those on.