Soft Side of IT

A good meeting must lead to one objective: Actionable

My last post showed how wasteful it can be. On the other hand, I had been & hosted meetings that ended in 20-30 min with an action plan to implement by the decisions made.

There is recent one to solve an ongoing bug in the system. The goal was to close the issue with an permanent IT solution, even though we ended up with an implement-able action plan that requires minimal human/manual work required.

Original Intent
The original intent of meetings is gets to gather to solve a problem. Although many this we forget to state the purpose of the meeting, then it get side tracked, then 1/2 of the people in the meeting wasted their time.

At the Meetings
As the host, I :
1. Give a brief of what people are coming in for (Otherwise you might use up half the time with misunderstandings)
2. List out the issue & figure out best approach that fit all parties/departments (Followed agenda)
3. List out action to take
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4. Follow-up to close open items

Of course, the follow-up of actionable is to take action.