I asked this same question about 12 months ago and we are working on reducing meetings, making them more effective, and increasing the amount of time to get in a flow state for deep work. Just wanted to share as that is where I ended up and currently playing with work analytics from the calendars on a personal and business level with a few public companies (https://execution.com/free-meeting-stats/).

Productivity is a hard one, as there are hard increases and soft ones that make people feel better which then translate into better results.

Last week I ran an offsite for the executive team at a public tech company focused on "performance" of a leadership team...I borrowed a lot from Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions" but that wasn't enough...

If you have a team and want to improve, my first question would be "in what dimension?" -- and then I would have several follow ons about why and how...

Happy to discuss more if I can be helpful - just message or find me: http://drift.me/seanlindsay

- no meetings/standups in the morning

- no email/slack/phones in the morning

Try to create an environment where people can work 3-4h without stupid interruptions and do some deep work.

That is how I would run my dev company if I had one ;)

This is a great point. My most productive hours in the early morning last about as long as I can resist looking at slack.

> no meetings/standups in the morning

Would you have standups in the afternoon or are you completely against them?

Personally, I don't like daily standups. Having worked in two companies which implemented them, I could not see any benefits.

Maybe there is value if implemented better. I don't have enough experience to make a final decision about that.

Dropping jira.

What would you replace JIRA with and why?

That's a fun concept, watched the demo.

Have you built anything relatively complex with it?

The studios application itself