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Having to go to a meeting really messes with your flow for the whole day, doesn't it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/adhd

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[–] jaybone 63 points 4 days ago (2 children)

For software engineers, problem is management thought you could just hire a ton of people to solve the problem. Then the people who could actually solve the problem are stuck in meetings all day explaining it to people who can’t even understand the problem you keep explaining to them. Fun times.

[–] Aceticon 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The good old Mythical Man Hour.

(In simple terms, as the number of people increases, the communications overheads also increase, generally faster, so if you have more people a greater proportion of time is wasted, hence work done doesn't increase proportionally to the number of people. Or if you just want to inform management that more people won't simply mean the work gets done much faster just give the example of "If takes 9 months for a woman to make a child, it doesn't mean you can get 9 women and make a child in one month")

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Diminishing Returns is the concept on a broader scale here

Ie: the more you add the less you get from adding, to the point of it becoming a complete negative

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or if you just want to inform management that more people won’t simply mean the work gets done much faster just give the example of “If takes 9 months for a woman to make a child, it doesn’t mean you can get 9 women and make a child in one month”

Management: "I don't have time for theoretical discussions. Marketing says this releases in two weeks and you better get it done. Do you need more resources?"

[–] Aceticon 2 points 3 days ago

"It can't be done in this time frame."

"Should've come and asked the experts how long would it take before accepting marketing's estimates"

"So either find us more time or chose what we're going to drop for the release"

And yeah, I've used this. (Then again, I'm pretty senior and seen and done a lot)

[–] Senshi 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The people that don't understand the problem usually are management, and I have to spend an exhausting time each day explaining to them why the problem exists and why it takes so long to fix it. I once was honestly telling them their meetings were a big part of the delays. Which then obviously led to more meetings on "how we can better communicate so we can have less meetings and more productive time". I wish I was joking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

The problem with communication we have is the people who received the information are too dumb to understand said information