[kraigie]

>Or perhaps the meetings are actually more important than the coding tasks and that is why they get priority.

If that is the case. Then the programmers KPI and perfomance review should be based on how many of these meetings they attended.

Hell if meetings really are more important and add to productivty. How about paying meeting attendance bonuses?

No one will put there money where there mouth is because they know it's a waste of time to have a meeting that could be an email.

They need to look busy to justify their own salary