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

Summary

Get used to the fact that you will be spending a large percentage of your workweek in meetings. You will also be leading the majority of the meetings you attend. Learning how to facilitate a meeting is a skill that will very quickly become second nature to you. Running effective meetings requires a certain degree of confidence, skill, and sensitivity to group dynamics. Keeping a group of people focused on a topic is a difficult task, but there are some methods you can use that make the task a little easier.

The single most important tool you will use to control your meetings is the agenda. Always create an agenda before any meeting where there are more than four people in attendance. Creating an agenda allows you to discern if the meeting ...