Blogging about work is always dicey as one wants to be candid but their are very real and negative consequences to biting the hand that feeds you in full view of the world. Let me also be clear that my current client is one of the best run companies I've ever worked for (and, as a lifelong consultant, I've worked for a lot of 'em).
That said...
We've got this quarterly meeting scheduled today which is typically used to keep everybody up to speed on what is going on in our section of IT. Tech leads and managers give short pitches on what their groups are doing and what's coming in the relatively near future. It's not the most exciting two hours, but it is useful information.
Meanwhile, the observation has been made that, when attending a conference, it's often the hallway conversations that transfer the most usable information. So, why not make the quarterly meeting a more informal walk-around affair and just let people swap information freely?
That sounds like a great idea, but there's a really important omission among the predicates: this isn't a conference. The people we'll be milling with are the same folks we see in the hallways every day. We don't need a quarterly meeting to have hallway conversations.
Maybe they'll at least have some good snacks.
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