[dawnerd]

I put “focus time” after lunch to end of day to force all of the meetings into the morning. Unfortunately project managers still put time in my calendar as as a lead it’s harder to say no.

Best thing I’ve found is to keep reminding the project people that the meetings will cause deadlines to be missed. At least that puts some blame on someone other than your team. When half of the billed hours end up being meetings it becomes clear.