{"id":1929,"date":"2007-09-19T14:18:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2007-09-19T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:18:40","slug":"the-best-kind-of-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"The Best Kind Of Meeting..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>... is one where you walk out with fewer tasks than you had when you went in.<\/p>\n<p>For the past three months, I've been wincing at a gigantic \"plan\" that's been sitting on my desk, waiting for me to start it. It's not so much a plan as a very vaguely-defined wish list. But even in this rough state, it's clear that it will obviously take a metric ass-load of work to do, no matter what we come up with as the final version. And it's been hard for me to get all the relevant players into a meeting so they can decide on the specifics, and so we can all get a clear idea about how much work it will take. But, today I got my meeting. And after 40 minutes of talking, a little nugget of gold fell out of the key player's mouth - no not his tooth, but rather, it was the fact that what he needs is really just a small tweak to what our product already does. So, instead of needing me to rewrite 90% of what we have, it turns out that what I've already written does 90% of what we need. Awesome! I feel like someone just pulled a big bag of wet sand off my back. <\/p>\n<p>Yay!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/tricskey_roar_small.gif\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>... is one where you walk out with fewer tasks than you had when you went in. For the past three months, I've been wincing at a gigantic \"plan\" that's been sitting on my desk, waiting for me to start it. It's not so much a plan as a very vaguely-defined wish list. But even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}