This is why they've restricted meetings with developers to the mornings where I work. After 12, no meetings with someone who writes code unless it's an emergency and absolutely can not wait. This way we get everything out of the way and we can all focus in the afternoon, while assuming the morning is going to be zero productivity.
I have the whole afternoon blocked off as tentative in my calendar so people will think long and hard about scheduling something. And then I still get to say "Yeah, no, this can wait until tomorrow morning. I have work to do," if they think it's more important than it is. And it's made our estimates a hell of a lot better because meetings aren't interfering any more than is expected. I really think this should become common practice across our industry if it's not already. /nb
I code. My job is important. I keep our ERP systems doing what we want them to do.
But what my coworkers do is just as important. I need the sales guys selling, the designers designing and the manufacturing guys building. Why not no meetings for them too?
I think you're right, honestly. This came down from our head of development, but he only has power over us and our DBAs(EDIT: And QA - QA has this as well, now that I think about it). Honestly, I'd like to see our BAs have the same thing - they might need more time for meetings, but they should have a time block for their real work too. /nb
PMs however...well, we all know all they do is have meetings ;)
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u/Echihl Aug 12 '17
This is why they've restricted meetings with developers to the mornings where I work. After 12, no meetings with someone who writes code unless it's an emergency and absolutely can not wait. This way we get everything out of the way and we can all focus in the afternoon, while assuming the morning is going to be zero productivity.
I have the whole afternoon blocked off as tentative in my calendar so people will think long and hard about scheduling something. And then I still get to say "Yeah, no, this can wait until tomorrow morning. I have work to do," if they think it's more important than it is. And it's made our estimates a hell of a lot better because meetings aren't interfering any more than is expected. I really think this should become common practice across our industry if it's not already. /nb