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I was at a startup demo day on South Congress last month and saw a pitch that made me rethink my whole hiring plan.
This founder showed a simple dashboard that tracked how much time her team spent on meetings versus actual coding. The numbers were brutal, like 60% of the week in meetings. She said she cut it down to 20% by making all meetings 25 minutes and banning laptops. I walked out and canceled three standing meetings the next day. My team's output is already up. What's the most wasteful process you've cut from your Austin tech company lately?
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hill.margaret17d ago
Wow, that's a great find. My big win was killing the weekly all-hands status report that everyone just read off slides. It freed up like two hours for actual work.
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laura_schmidt8217d ago
Honestly, that's a smart move. But I feel like the real win is when you stop making the slides at all. My team switched to a shared doc where we just bullet out three key things. It cut the prep time down to maybe ten minutes, so we got those two hours back plus the hour people spent building slides. The trick is getting bosses to trust the written update.
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