2024-08-28 Strategic use of bikeshedding Painting a bike shed can be an excellent icebreaker when getting a group to review a document draft. Categories Posts
2024-04-17 Cancelling meetings isn’t a magical fix Valuable meetings increase the work that gets done by providing coordination and accountability. Keep the valuable meetings. Cancel the rest. Categories Posts
2024-04-05 How to take notes at meetings When there’s no chatbot to record meeting notes, you have to do it yourself. This post shares tips for before, during, and after the meeting. Categories Posts
2023-06-21 How to take meeting notes If you know how to take good meeting notes, you can help make the meeting useful. Categories Posts
2023-01-12 Why does this meeting exist? If you can’t come up with a sentence or two that says why you scheduled the meeting, you should consider what that implies. Categories Posts
2022-10-19 There is no good time for a meeting, only the time you pick Scheduling a meeting is the most difficult task placed before a program manager. Here’s how you can find a time when all the times are bad. Categories Posts
2022-08-08 Using WhenIsGood to schedule meetings I don’t want to call these “best practices”, but these are my practices for using WhenIsGood to schedule a meeting. Categories Resources
