Recently I was giving some advice (that I was asked for, which is novel) regarding one-to-one meetings between developers and either team leads or management can be structured. My thoughts really boiled down to some very short points (this is why sometimes, those meetings take 15 minutes and other times they take 3 times that for a monthly update!). In case they’re useful to anyone else, here’s my meeting outline:
- What’s going well/what are you excited about?
- What’s tedious/annoying or actually a problem?
- What could I be doing that I’m not?