Rands on how to make meetings suck less

Discuss on Hacker News Michael Lopp (aka Rands) is a director at Palantir, an author of a number of books on software engineering and management best practices, as well as an ex-manager of the Mac OSX engineering team. He also hates meetings.  At the First Round CTO Summit Talk, Lopp explains how meetings can drain the time of engineers eager to solve the world’s biggest problems.  Nevertheless, they are essential to aligning large teams together.  Lopp shares the strategies he uses to run effective meetings for teams of all sizes.  Read on to get his detailed opinion on meetings, including a rubric to help you evaluate your own company meetings.

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