Coffee and snacks over boring meetings
Computers on standby don’t produce results. Meetings and daily standups don’t either. Commits and pushes to source code actually produce concrete value.
In contrast, coffee, cake, and snacks generate an agenda for team networking, while also contributing to increased energy. Secrets that were hidden come to light, leading to clarification of ideas.
The power of coffee
After all, what produces more value: an hour of meeting about “expectation alignment” or half an hour of focused code with good coffee? The answer is obvious — but they insist on scheduling meetings.
Meetings: the productivity black hole
Every hour of meeting is an hour where no one is writing code, fixing bugs, or thinking about architecture. The worst part: after the meeting, we schedule another meeting to align what was decided in the first.
Snacks > Post-its
While the agile team spends fortunes on colorful post-its to fill a kanban board, the slow team invests in quality coffee and snacks — which in the end generate more productivity than any sticky note.