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what do you folks discuss in your weekly/monthly 1:1 with your engineering managers? (lemm.ee)
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I'm new to this weekly syncup thing with my manager and he already knows the things I work on through daily standups, the issues I've faced or things that have gone great through retros after every sprint.

This gives me little to talk about with my manager except personal goals sometimes, a bit about our lives in general, etc. I was wondering what you guys discuss and how do you make best use of this meeting?

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[–] cosmic_slate@dmv.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the last few I’ve had:

  • How an org restructuring might impact the team and if there’s any more info
  • Asking about projects on the horizon to indicate interest
  • Discussing pain points with other teams — one example was I keep getting DMed by a number of people and this led to changes to make it easier for the team to be reachable by others.

I use them for the “10,000 ft view” type conversations.

[–] graphicsguy@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

This.

I ask my boss about project-wide stuff that might impact me and my team, discuss strategy / priorities / roadmaps, ask them to weigh in on anything where I need project leadership to help resolve an issue, and any perfunctory "goals" stuff (I hate it so much haha)