Engineer’s time manage recommendations #

Consider this hypothetical week for a software engineer:

• One hour: 1:1 with manager
• Two and a half hours: daily thirty-minute standup meetings
• Two hours: average time spent in other agile ceremonies (sprint plan- ning, retrospectives, etc.)
• Four to eight hours: reviewing others’ code
• Four hours: email/chat communication
• Two to four hours: reading specs and deep task understanding

In total that’s about thirteen to eithteen hours of the week used up for meetings and communication.