List: Meetings | Curated by Dr Stuart Woolley

Nov 26, 2024
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MeetingsMeetings, the bane of any progressive software engineer's life.
Dr Stuart Woolley
Optimising The Office Christmas PartyIt’s that time of the year again, but the modus operandi is pretty much the same for any mandatory fun set around tedious calendar events.
Nov 26, 2024
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Nov 26, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Art Of Ineffective CommunicationIt’s not just general lack of clue, astounding hubris, or basic incompetence that gives management a bad name.
Aug 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Trauma of “Accept, Tentative, or Decline”High stakes gambling in the fight against meeting anxiety and overload.
Aug 20, 2024
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Aug 20, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Improving The Performance Review ProcessMight taking into account the distractions, time wasting, obstruction, and obfuscation be a path to true meritocracy?
Jul 18, 2024
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Jul 18, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Danse Macabre of Company And CustomerThe charade of subterfuge, lies, and deceit that is the prelude to a shotgun software marriage made in Jira.
Jul 12, 2024
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Jul 12, 2024
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Why Is It So Hard To Eat Alone?An examination of corporate comestible consumption in the Grand Game of Software Engineering.
Jun 8, 2024
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Jun 8, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Management Attention Disorder, a.k.a. “MAD”Is it wrong to talk rubbish if you know the listener isn’t paying attention anyway? Spoiler: No.
May 13, 2024
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May 13, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Information ObfuscationThe more you need it, the harder it is to find. By design?
Apr 21, 2024
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Apr 21, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Change, It’s Rarely A Good ThingMost especially when it comes from the management classes.
Apr 4, 2024
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Apr 4, 2024
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The Workplace Messaging PivotHobbling the medium of communication for control and profit?!
Mar 22, 2024
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Mar 22, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Between A Customer And A Project ManagerOr, “dealing with being stuck between the lazy and the inept”.
Mar 19, 2024
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Mar 19, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
What Your Coworkers Earn Doesn’t Really MatterWhilst discussing salary helps, doing interviews and getting offers from other companies is the only real way to get a decent pay rise.
Jan 27, 2024
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Jan 27, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Hidden Agenda In MeetingsPerhaps, all this time, we’ve been missing the real point behind the longest meetings.
Jan 1, 2024
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Jan 1, 2024
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Countering Exploitative ManagersWhy managers spend so much time in meetings and what you can do when the consequences inevitably arrive in your inbox.
Dec 25, 2023
Dec 25, 2023
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Is There Anything To Be Said For Another Meeting?The worst way to make decisions has become ruthlessly dominant in today’s dysfunctional corporate world.
Dec 15, 2023
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Dec 15, 2023
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Heisenberg For The WinQuantum physics in the daily standup, chat channel, and performance review.
Nov 22, 2023
Nov 22, 2023
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Geek Culture
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Dr Stuart Woolley
When Meetings Go BadI’ve rarely been involved in a software management meeting that was productive. Let’s reflect on why they’re called and why they’re so bad.
Jul 18, 2021
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Jul 18, 2021
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
What’s The Story With 1–1 Meetings?Dammit Jim, I’m a software engineer I have no need of social contact!
Nov 4, 2021
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Nov 4, 2021
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
All-Hands Meetings : A Survival GuideSurviving large scale mandatory company meetings with minimal effort and maximum reward.
Jan 21, 2022
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Jan 21, 2022
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Dealing With A New Class Of Pointless MeetingsWhen no-one in the room has a vested interest, just what is going on? A survival guide for the progressive engineer.
May 28, 2022
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May 28, 2022
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