GHOD - Oh My GOD, It Works?

It is often observed that in our daily routines at Office, if we don't plan our work properly, it will be very difficult to make a day to day progress on the same. If we are working by employing an Agile Project Methodology, then even if one of the days become unproductive, it will impact the Sprint Commitments of the entire team. In my opinion, meetings are one of the prominent time & mood killers because of the below depicted reasons:-

• Not all, but most of the meetings don't have a proper agenda & if there is, then agenda is not shared, which makes people not to be much resourceful in meetings.
• Not all, but most of the meetings end up late exceeding the stipulated time.
• If the meetings are wrongly scheduled, it will be an absolute time killer. Let's say 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM meeting is going to kill most of the people's time as they are going to reach office to start the day by attending the meeting and if the meeting turns out to be "beating", people step out of the meeting in a bad mood and sooner or later leave for leisure lunch break and come back by 2 PM, by which half of the day has gone already.

At the same time, important stake-holders of meeting need to prepare to actively participate in the meeting, which needs at least 15 minutes of preparation. Also it would take sometime for people to resume their work with the same pace after the meeting.

Eventually the point is meetings are going to disrupt the work schedule. Of course, without Meetings it is going to be difficult to work too. So in an attempt to solve this problem, proposing "GHOD - Golden Hours Of Day", which aims at accommodating meetings without the side effects of it. 

Depending upon the consensus of the Team, GHOD defines a minimum of couple of hours both halves of the day wherein there will not be any meetings absolutely. Any meetings must be before or after GHOD. One of the examples of GHOD - 10 30 AM to 12:30 PM and 3:00 PM To 5:30 PM. Meetings can take place before GHOD or after GHOD or the intervals between GHOD. 5 Hours of GHOD/Day yields amazing results. Try it out to realize the benefits. 

With GHOD being set, people become time conscious to start off but eventually become work conscious. Also daily tasks are getting accomplished easily because of more focus. Apart from that if there are no meetings/less number of meetings in a day, people can make use of that time in building professional networking in the organisation or for self development or for better work life balance. 

GHOD acts as GOD, pretty much powerful and helpful.