Add meetings section to Tenant Scale operating system

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title: "Group Tenant Scale - Operating System - Meetings"

description: "Group Tenant Scale meetings."

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## Overview

This section of the GTS Operating System describes the different leadership meetings we have, their purposes, and guidelines for making effective use of our sync time.

## Meetings

### M-Staff

- What: A meeting for EMs covering management focused topics such as organizational design, staffing, performance management

- Why: Foster organizational alignment, collaboration among EM first team.

- Who: Engineering Managers, Director

- When: Weekly - Tuesdays 15:30UTC - 30 minutes

### L-Staff

- What: Domain specific cross-functional meetings (mini L-Staffs)

- Why: Efficient decision making, unblocking, and alignment across product and engineering leadership

- Who: Product managers, Staff+ Engineers, Engineering Managers, Director

- When:

  - Cells and Organizations: Weekly - Tuesdays 16:30UTC - 30 minutes, Fortnightly (APAC/AMER) - Wednesdays 23:30UTC - 30 minutes

  - Git and Gitaly: TBD

  - Groups, Projects, Teams: Weekly - Thursdays 16:30UTC - 30 minutes

  - Geo: Weekly - Thursdays 17:30UTC - 30 minutes

### Protocells Standup

- What: A weekly review of progress and blockers on Protocells workstreams and dependencies.

- Why: Provide accountability, cross-team transparency, identify and resolve blockers/challenges

- Who: Technical Program Manager, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Workstream and Dependency DRIs

- When: Weekly - Tuesdays - 16:00UTC - 30 minutes

### Protocells Steering Committee

- What: A weekly meeting that focuses on Protocells program strategy and direction.

- Why: Ensure alignment on program timelines, direction, and strategy.

- Who: Steering Committee Members

- When: Weekly - Mondays 16:30UTC - 30 minutes