It is interesting that Agile movement has in general enshrined idea of time boxed team meetings for software teams. And in general - we engineers are wary of long meetings.<p>And yet - most of us measure ourselves, how we are performing in a team by things that happen in team meetings(according to the article anyway):<p>1. Is idea my ideas heard and debated before being accepted&#x2F;rejected?<p>2. Do I get opportunity to present my idea at all.<p>A time boxed meeting does not by nature leave room for idle chit-chat or from my experience even opportunity to hear everyone&#x27;s thoughts. Part of the problem of course is, meeting rooms in lot of companies are a scarce resource, so you better clear out after time is out.<p>This is really curious because we hate meetings and yet we have adopted them in a sort of haphazard way which creates more problems than solves.