Meeting value analysis

This post is part of 101 ideas for agile teams.

Context

Management and/or team complain about to many meetings that take too long.

Action

Make an analysis of the value of all meetings. For every meeting, ask every stakeholder (participant, sponsor, line manager etc.) what value the meeting provides.

What you gain

Transparency about what meetings provide what value to whom. Often, team members don’t see the value provided for others and therefore think a meeting is superfluous.

This can later be used to optimize meetings for outcomes.

How to strengthen

Repeat the analysis frequently.

Risks

The analysis is misused to establish some kind of metric. Make clear that the goal of the analysis is purely to make transparent, who gets what out of which meeting.

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