In this chapter, we've looked at some of the main types of meeting that you are likely to be attending as a developer-manager, and I've shared with you the important things you need to know to be successful in those meetings.
We started by thinking about those important off-duty meetings that you'll find yourself attending sometimes. The two main categories we talked about where the one-to-one off-duty chats, and the wider-group off-duty chats. These can be very important meetings, especially for your team members if they can't easily share something that's on their mind in normal office hours and environment. These meetings can raise fresh challenges for you as a manager about just how friendly you can be with your team members while off duty, and how to balance being yourself while holding a certain line as a manager at the same time.
We then...