I'm going to venture and add one more that I find relevant for myself and the people I work with:
- If the meeting involves creatives (coders, designers, graphics, etc), shove them all towards one day of the week, or one time of the day.
One of my pet peeves about my last job was that PMs and managers felt free to book meetings at any damn time of the day. If I have a half-hour gap between meeting A and meeting B, I won't get anything done. It got so bad in "crunch time" (when everyone wanted updates on everything) that work practically stopped. My day was 4 hours of meetings interspersed with complete and utterly wasted time.
Creatives need significant stretches of time to actually get anything done. Book your meetings around these.
- If the meeting involves creatives (coders, designers, graphics, etc), shove them all towards one day of the week, or one time of the day.
One of my pet peeves about my last job was that PMs and managers felt free to book meetings at any damn time of the day. If I have a half-hour gap between meeting A and meeting B, I won't get anything done. It got so bad in "crunch time" (when everyone wanted updates on everything) that work practically stopped. My day was 4 hours of meetings interspersed with complete and utterly wasted time.
Creatives need significant stretches of time to actually get anything done. Book your meetings around these.