I never liked those 'Power Lunch' meetings, even if the lunch was provided by the
employer ( back
when they had budgets for thost things :)
I always believed, and still do, that those '30-minutes' are for me. It's my lunch
time. It's time
for a break from the non-stop work. And while I am eating my lunch, I would like to
enjoy it
without any distractions. Needless to say, I never attended those 'brown bag lunch'
meetings! In
my previous job, our boss tried an early morning 'breakfast' meetings (at 6:30am). He
was the only
one who showed up with 2-dz donuts! We ate those for lunch :)
In my current job, we had 'alternate Friday' DBA tech meetings with circulating 'donut
duty'. That
lasted for a few months.. when we discussed some techie DBA things.. But, as workload
grew, prople
would show up to pickup their donut and head back to their cubes... Past several
years, we just do
our 'donut duty'. For any pressing techie issue, we just gather around cubes and get
it over
with....
Things, and how we do our jobs, have changed over the years, as well as our
priorities... ;)
- Kirti
- "Eberhard, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I first began working here years ago we had a scheduled lunch
> meeting/training every Friday for the IS Department. Lunch was provided and
> someone was given the task to present some technical topic. A lot of times
> it was watching a training video, such as a training video for Visual Basic.
> Eventually it died because the guy scheduling the meetings had left the
> company. Every once in a while we try to resurrect the "Weekly Training
> Meeting". My current boss (which was an employee turned manager) wants to
> have the meetings but doesn't want to provide the lunch. Guess what? No
> one shows up after the first meeting. It's amazing what an incentive a
> little bit of food is.
>
> --Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 1:39 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> I've found both as a manager in Oracle and in Miracle that if you schedule
> regular meetings with the guys (and girls), then they start not showing up
> after a while, or the meetings become boring. If you don't hold regular
> meetings they'll complain and wish for regular meetings.
>
> So I've come up with this model:
>
> 1st meeting
> 2nd meeting after a week
> 3rd meeting after two weeks
> 4th meeting after four weeks
> 5th meeting after eight weeks (around here or at next iteration they start
> complaining...)
> 6th meeting after a week...
> 7th meeting after two weeks...
>
> Mvh Mogens
>
> Babette Turner-Underwood wrote:
>
>
> From time to time, we go through a series of "show and tell" where people do
> about an hour long presentation, question and answer on some usually
> technical topic. Occasionally these presentations are business related (eg
> explaining how the Canada Pension Plan international agreements affects the
> programs we are doing).
>
> They die off, then the director resurrects them by asking for volunteers.
> Occasionally, people are told to do a presentation on a specific work
> -related topic.
>
> -
> Babette
>
> -----Original Message-----
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]On Behalf Of
> Rudy Zung
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 3:05 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Don't know if what we do in our shop here qualifies for your question or
> not, but our dev groups do "stand-up meetings." Relatively quick meetings
> (that can be done standing up; no meeting rooms required) that are usually
> finished in about 20 minutes. In the stand-ups, we get heads-up for things
> and specifications that might be coming down the pipeline from the product
> management and design side. We get a quick update on the state of deployment
> (what version has rolled into production, what version is in the QA
> pipeline) and what the next impending set of changes are about to get pushed
> onto the dev servers. If there's any potential "gotcha"s that have been
> experienced (especially on the coding front) they get publicized in the
> stand-ups as well.
>
> The main point of our stand-ups are to make sure that all the developers are
> relatively aware of the scheduling and direction of the product, and to
> highlight any programming difficulties and workarounds that might arise so
> that when different developers hit those gotchas, they'll already know that
> a solution might already.
>
> These stand-up meetings are basically within a development team/group.
> Project leads have their own meetings with the product management group. So
> essentially, the product manager has his own meetings; then the product
> manager has meetings with the dev project leads to convey what they want in
> the next iteration of the product; the project leads then present these to
> the dev group in a stand-up meeting.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:30 PM
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>
>
> List,
>
> Just wondering if your organization has tech meetings, and what is discussed
> and what the goals of the meetings are?
>
> I've been asked about this, and was wondering if there is a quick list out
> there any where.
>
> TIA
>
>
>
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