Here&#x27;s my answer to these meetings: I just stopped going to them.<p>If you ask people why they go, it&#x27;s generally to &quot;see and be seen as working hard&quot;. But in general, the people that matter don&#x27;t attend these pointless meetings: they send their least qualified subordinates in their place because they&#x27;re the only ones with time to go.<p>You don&#x27;t need a weekly meeting to deliver a status update. You need a single e-mail once a week. Or better yet, just use whatever project management&#x2F;bug tracking system and create a dashboard so you don&#x27;t even need to meet. All you have to do then is have the project&#x2F;scrum master harass people to log their tickets (which they are probably already doing anyway).<p>The real decisions are made one-on-one anyway -- meetings are just a place where people posture and take credit for things.