My journey through employment has been quite long, and at times, I think that I’m still figuring it out. Last year was 25 years of professional software development for me, fifteen in management positions. And while I’ve been a manager, I haven’t stopped understanding and learning about technology, programming, participating, challenging myself some. The last few leadership roles have really made me think seriously about work and who you work with. Even my last development role was problematic at the end, with a situation where I was actively being targeted and it made me want to leave. I think it’s a situation that people should know about, and how do you handle it when your manager is making up things to try to manage you out of your role. As someone who had been a manager, I was more prepared to handle that situation than most were and I wasn’t the only one who had to deal with it.

I hate meetings. Some are necessary, most are not. What I’ve noticed is that certain people will just start adding people to meetings and then the meeting has 20+ people in it. There is no way to negatively reenforce that they are doing something bad, especially when 17-18 of those people are just sitting there staring at the wall. The other situation is the 2-3+ hour meeting that doesn’t really accomplish anything. Giving people a short meeting time causes people to work things out quickly and take less important and off task issues outside of the meeting. So my proposal is Meeting Points.