Tired of too many meetings? We can work better.
#NoMeetings is a proposal to work with fewer and more efficient meetings in a distributed async teams world.
This is a PDF version of the #NoMeetings talk from Conferencia Agile Spain 2022 (#CAS2022), 11th November.
4. ⇒ No agenda or objectives ⇒ #NoMeetings
⇒ Strict timeboxing
⇒ Mindful of trade-offs: who should attend?
State of the art
Before
During
After
⇒ Focus & respect
⇒ Meeting notes / minutes
⇒ Follow-up
11. Meeting types
Status update
Informative
Figuring things out
Decision-making
Learning
Collaborative work
Social
Goal-driven
Daily, weekly
All-hands
Product Refinement
Strategy, product proposal
Trainings, capacity buildings
Pairing, mob programming
Offsites, team building, 1-to-1
Sales and Support calls
Examples
12. Discuss moving to async
Status update
Informative
Figuring things out / idea ripening
Decision-making
Learning
Collaborative work / co-creation
Social
Goal-driven
13. #NoMeetings #Example
How we do it at Quaderno
Status update
Informative
Figuring things out
Decision-making
Learning
Collaborative work
Social
Goal-driven
Async-backed
Async
Async + Sync
Async + In person offsites for strategy
Async-backed
Async + Sync
Sync + In person sync
Async + Sync
14. Meeting notes sent 24h+ before
Everyone documents before and during
Sender facilitates
Introducing “async-backed”
Content known in advance
Fastens the meeting
Many topics solved async, before the meeting
17. “When to have a meeting” from quaderno.io internal handbook
How we do it at Quaderno
18. Meeting types
Status update
Informative
Figuring things out
Decision-making
Learning
Collaborative work
Social
Goal-driven
Goal-driven
Sales and Support teams are the
only ones who have received
formal training to improve their
meetings and related skills.
21. Allows for pause & reflect.
It's more inclusive.
Written communication
Collaboration skills
Be concise
Start by practicing summarizing
Think of information structure