A team meeting with 10 people present, where a large part of the meeting focuses on a topic that only 3 people are truly discussing. The other 7 are just killing time (you never do that, right?) and are waiting for the next topic they might be more interested in.
Or a team spends a long discussion on a topic where some key stakeholders are not present. This results in a lot of talking without the right input to have the real conversation.
If you work in agile teams and conduct many sprints, do you also have a good discussion about the long term and dependencies among all those agile teams and sprints?
TeamUP tip: Discuss with your team whether you are meeting with the right people.
Take time to think about which topics are best discussed with which people.
- Does everything always need to go through that same team meeting with everyone present?
- Could you discuss certain topics better in a different configuration?
- Would it not be much more effective to set up a completely different kind of meeting for certain topics with people who are not normally in your team?
- Which topics can be best discussed spontaneously?
- Have you built in enough room for thinking about the long term and all dependencies between teams and projects? How can you best organize this?
One meeting about how you hold meetings can yield significant benefits for all your discussions.
Please let us know if you found this tip valuable or not. If you have any other questions or comments, feel free to contact us.
Best regards,
Arjan ter Linden
