Slides of my "I will NOT attend your meeting" talk at ApacheCon EU 2016, Séville

1. Bertrand Delacrétaz
@bdelacretaz, grep.codeconsult.ch
Principal Scientist, Adobe, Basel
Apache Software Foundation Member and Director
ApacheCon Séville, November 2016
slides revision 2016-11-14
BETA!I will NOT attend
your meeting
I’m an Open Source person!

2. Maker
vs.
Manager

3. I won’t attend your meeting, I’m an Open Source person - Bertrand Delacretaz
On a Maker’s Schedule,
a one-hour meeting
might waste half a day
On a Manager’s Schedule
it’s just another one-hour slot.
Credit to Paul Graham, blog post: https://s.apache.org/ms

4. Meetings are
(crazy)
EXPENSIVE

5. I won’t attend your meeting, I’m an Open Source person - Bertrand Delacretaz

6. The Many Flavors Of
FAILED
MEETINGS

7. I won’t attend your meeting, I’m an Open Source person - Bertrand Delacretaz
#fail
wrong topic
unprepared
Bob forgot
forgot Bob
we’ll decide
next week
who’s in charge?
what’s the goal?
say again?

8. Recurring
Scheduled
Meetings??

9. I won’t attend your meeting, I’m an Open Source person - Bertrand Delacretaz
Let’s meet!
Nothing happened since last time!
Ok. let’s still meet!
Bob and Betty cannot join this time!
Too bad but let’s meet!
This is going to be a waste of time!
Well, it’s scheduled. Let’s meet!

10. Are there
ANYgood meetings?

11. YESgood value adding meetings DO happen!

12. BRAINSTORM
fast exchange of ideas, high bandwidth.
capture actionable results!

13. VISION
day-to-day business happens elsewhere.
(capture actionable results!)

14. SHARED NEURONS
Hard problems. Teamwork. Hackathon.

15. YESgood value adding meetings DO happen!

16. I won’t attend
your meeting
IF

17. I won’t attend your
meeting IF…
It has no clear goals
there are too many attendees
I cannot prepare it
It’s the wrong audience
It’s better solved online
etc….

18. codaEfficient collaboration is the goal
Meetings are just one tool
Find the right channel for each issue!
I won’t attend your meeting, I’m an Open Source person - Bertrand Delacretaz - @bdelacretaz - ApacheCon EU 2016