To Meet or Not to Meet

Since I’ve joined Flipkart last year as a software engineer, I’ve been spending a lot of time in meetings. I decided to analyse all the meetings I’ve done and categorize them to see if any patterns emerge. These are the categories I’ve found (in no particular order):

• Knowledge transfer meetings
• Cross-team alignment meetings
• Brainstorming sessions to solve problems
• Project management meetings
  • Project inceptions
  • Project scoping meetings
  • Sync-ups/stand-ups
  • Sprint planning
  • Sprint retrospection
  • Triage meetings
• Requirement gathering meetings
• Demonstrations/showcases/walkthroughs
• Workshops/lectures
• Feedback meetings
• War rooms
  • Big feature launches
  • Big events like sales on e-commerce websites
  • App public launches
  • Production issues
  • Big-bang deployments/migrations
• System/code review meetings
• Interviews
• Pair programming sessions
• Announcements
• Client/vendor pitches

I’ll probably analyse them further and write a blog post about them.