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A. SunderlandRemote Engineering Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8584-8_3

3. Meetings

Alexandra Sunderland1  
(1)
Ottawa, ON, Canada
 

When a previously office-based team moves to remote work, a common way of adapting is to fill everyone’s calendars with so many meetings that no one actually has enough time to get any “real” work done during the week. There’s a thought that if you can’t see work being done, no work is being done.

Don’t be that manager.

Just as they did in the office, engineers need a lot of time for deep focus when they’re writing and reviewing code, writing tech specs, and planning their work out. There’s this concept of the manager’s ...

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