Easy Ways to increase efficiency in software companies: Meetings

 

The efficiency in many software companies are low. You may know it, endless meetings with to much people never needed. Presence counts more then results. But here some simple things that increasing the efficiency are really easy to implement:

1. One meeting free day a week (Meeting-frei Freitag)
2. No back to back meetings, at least 5 min break between
3. Time boxed meetings
4. Regular breaks in long meetings 

This ideas will not fix every thing but they are simple and easy to implement. And these ideas could be a turning point to more focused, result focused work. 

 

Fun fact, after introducing a meeting free Friday, after some time, a lot of meetings appears on the meeting free Friday, because there was a lot of free time. But now the Thursday is now meeting free.