Developers and Conference Calls
Conference calls for a software developer are an all to common occurrence. In my experience the larger the company the more frequently conference calls seem to occur. It usually makes sense to keep developers scattered about the country and world to what’s going on. The exception is when the calls usually contain information that’s not related to the work of the developer.
As a contractor I absolutely don’t care about any work that’s not related to my own unless it affects my work. Wasting my time with unnecessary conference calls means I’m working less and have less time to devote to actually getting things done. Lately I’ve been on roughly 5+ hours of conference calls a week because of the going ons of the company I’m working for. This is ridiculous.
Conference calls when personal between the developer and supervisors and business analysts can also be a very valuable source of information. It is very important to understand the logic behind and app and sometimes conference calls can be only the way the information can be obtained.
This is just my 2 cents about conference calls from a developers point of view.
Monday, November 17th, 2008