We did this for one project where we had daily “standing” meetings. Basically the idea is that everyone stands and the meetings are only long enough to get a status update, short discussions and some to-do’s. Other topics are discussed more in-depth during the normal weekly status meetings. These standing meetings are just to ensure we don’t have any road blocks that will lose 2 or 3 days of productivity. They also generally only involve the people actually doing the work and not as much management.

For me, I get more work donewhen I telecommute or work on another OS (such as Unix/Linux instead of Windows). This helps keep me from being distracted by emails or the phone calls. Thank goodness for source control and ftp.