My group has a regular weekly meeting on Monday's for cross-training. We don't always meet, but it is on the calendar, the conference room and projector are reserved, so we are good to go whenever we have something to go over. We also have a weekly group meeting to go over any pertinent projects, new stuff, issues etc. that we do the same thing with, if we need to meet we do, if not we skip it. And like others have stated, we do a lot of ad-hoc meetings when necessary.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Chinnery, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instructions and demos on a Friday afternoon? > > > Paul Chinnery > Network Administrator > Memorial Medical Center > 231-845-2319 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:29 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: IT Departmental Meetings > > IT folks are notorious for not liking meetings. > > Our department is nine members - we've split the staff into the business > systems team and the infrastructure team. We have a Wednesday > departmental meeting, which the IT Director has managed to pare down to > approximately 1/2 hour. That meeting covers news of the business as a > whole, plus anything that is going on in the department that might > impact others. No set agenda. > > I have also instituted, as the newly christened Supervisor for the IF > team (promoted in October, yea for me), a regular Friday afternoon > meeting (13:00) for me and my three charges. It is slated to last a full > hour, but is often over before that. However, I plan on introducing > instruction and demos at this meeting - I'll be requiring each member to > come up with a topic, in rotation. I figure it'll be good for them, and > I might learn something too. > > Kurt > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Chyka, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > > > Right now we have the most boring meetings for our IT Dept. We have > > weekly meetings with 15 members of our staff in them from the CIO to > > lower level techs and everyone in between. We fill out an agenda with > > > what we are working on etc. The meeting lasts forever and the DBAs > > don't want to hear what the Network guys are doing and the techs don't > > > want to hear what the systems guys are doing etc. etc. just awful > > meetings and nothing gets accomplished. We were told since we don't > > like the meetings and they are highly ineffective to come up with a > > better way to hold them. I was thinking about every 2 weeks have the > > CIO meet with the management in each division together so we still > > know what is going on with the "team". Every week is way too often > > and doesn't give enough time to report on completed projects etc. > > > > > > > > I was wondering how dept. meetings are held at your places of > > employment for the IT dept. > > > > > > > > Thanks..BC > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
