I'm shocked by the amount of time development teams spend "managing" projects instead of working on them.
I've been interviewing people for an upcoming software project and it's considered normal for someone (project manager, senior team lead, CTO, whoever) to spend hours every week discussing the plan for the week. Then, of course, the plan changes and they spend more hours moving the plan around.
How do you avoid this kinds of overhead? Any tips or tricks that you've seen work? Does anyone work in an environment where the developers are just trusted to figure out how to complete a project?
