Two things:<p>I once attended a meeting about our need to reduce the number of meetings due to decreased productivity. We never ended up reducing our meetings.<p>On my current project, it is normal and expected that we will attend an average of 2 hours in meetings per day, and therefore our actual productive hours are calculated at 60 hours per 2-week sprint. I initially thought this was absurd and that there was no way this could be accurate, but it’s actually true. Between various Agile ceremonies, standups, design strategy, and ad-hoc meetings most of the devs on my team do indeed attend an average of 2 hours per day in meetings. For me as a lead, that is easily doubled.
John Cleese does management training videos! These are still damn funny, relevant and relatable more than 40 years later.<p>I remember another one from the same series called "Who Sold You That, Then?"