Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches

Chapter 7. Learning to Love Meetings

Key Topics

• When to Call a Meeting

• The Meeting Agenda

• Meeting Pitfalls

• Types of Meetings

Just about everyone involved in the Web development industry will tell you the same thing: They have spent too much time in pointless, badly managed, and needless meetings. Spending time in a hot conference room talking about nothing in particular is a mind-numbing experience, but the mismanaged meeting syndrome perseveres. Project managers need to know how to run good meetings that do not waste the team's time and the client's money. There are some very simple rules you can use to run effective meetings where the attendees leave feeling like progress was made and action items were created. It's a good feeling to run a successful ...