Problem

Meetings are expensive. Often they don't accomplish their goal and are ineffective. Yet we do them all the time.

The three most common meeting pitfalls I've observed are:

• No goals / bad preparation
• Off-topic discussions
• Forgotten / unclear outcomes

Solution

A good meeting agenda can solve most of these leading to more effective meetings and less wasted time / resources.

I've crafted a generalized template for meetings that solves for these problems, battle-tested across years of collaboration and 1000s of individual meetings:

• Clear goals
• Clear discussion topics
• All info in one place
• Easy to access, search, and parse
• Collaboration-first (both sync and async)

It's improved the Creation Cycles for me and the teams / orgs I've worked with and I think it'll help others out as well.

Get the Template

• Get the Effective Meeting Template
• Learn more about the theory behind the template: Effective Meetings for Software Engineers

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