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Questions tagged [meetings]

Framework-required meetings; meeting artifacts; organizing meetings; meeting communications.

This tag is intended to be used for questions about:

  1. Specific meetings dictated by a framework (e.g. Scrum's Daily Stand-Up).
  2. Organizing, scheduling, or coordinating meetings.
  3. Facilitating communications during a meeting.
  4. Meeting artifacts such as minutes or Sprint Backlogs.
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Managing Without Meetings

What techniques have you used or would you recommend to update project status or resolve project conflicts other than meetings? This is a question from a company with a culture of meetings.
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How does one fairly choose someone to take minutes of a meeting?

Taking meeting minutes is important for documenting what discussions and outcomes came out of a given meeting, but I personally find it difficult to lead a meeting at the same time as taking notes (they use very different parts of my brain). Any…
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Meeting Etiquette - Intrusions

Our team sometimes has one-on-one or 3 attendee meetings in of the developers' cubes. We have one developer who always jumps in to "offer" his suggestions for projects that do not concern him. Engaging him tends to derail the efficient nature of our…
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Meetings in agile project

we are into Agile project development. Our onsite PM wants us to attend every possible meeting happening for everybody in the whole team. This consumes daily 5 hours on average. I dont want to make onsite PM feel bad about my suggestion that I want…
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Is it more effective to deliver the most important point first or last in a meeting?

I was looking for a good StackExchange site to deliver this question. I feel like it could be a fit here. I'm looking for an answer on what is considered the most effective means of information retention in a meeting. For example, let's say I have 3…
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How to let a team select the best idea from many ideas

If we collect many ideas and project proposals can you recommend a way to choose one of them? There are several models for example Each person chooses the preferred choice and that is all. The choice which gets selected the most wins and becomes…
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Making meetings more efficient

I'm a new-ish project manager in the IT field and constantly find myself stuck in meetings. I'm always looking for new ways to make these meetings more efficient. Does anyone have the same issue or have any input on this? Thanks
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