The more you communicate to your superiors before the meetings, the less time spent in meetings, too.

One way to achieve this is to make sure every time you commit code that you check it in against a ticket. If there isn't a ticket to check it in against, create one, and then check it in against the newly created ticket. This gives you transparency and accountability. Both of which managers love. This can all be achieved with various ticketing systems, but the one I find that is integrated with a versioning system quite well is Trac. It integrates well with subversion, git, and mercurial.

Just keep in mind that not all communication is necessarily verbal.