Why developers hate meetings?

Since it is pretty obvious that developers hate meetings it is time to pose the question everyone seems to have ignored. Why half an hour usually relaxing activity brings so much anger into people’s heads?

I am very pleased to say that I found the answer in brilliant essey written by Paul Graham, which a colleague of mine has given me not so long ago.

Answer to the question is in the way people plan their time. While managers usually schedule their activities with duration rarely exceeding one hour, developers, or maker’s as Paul says in his essey, think in a day or at least half a day periods. In their world short 15-minutes meeting will spoil easily a whole day!

After reading the essey I made a conclusion that every meetign with “maker” participants should rather be planned on early mornings or in the end of working days in order to optimise developers performance and make their working environment less stressfull.