Meetings according to devth

My buddy (who unwisely works in fintech) posted this twitter thread about meetings that I have enhanced and summarized.

All two of you who follow my blog likely have wisdom, links, and strong opinions about tech business meetings so I welcome your comments in my G-Doc here: 

https://is.gd/devth_mtgs

Proposed Meeting Hygiene Workflow

Quotas

• max 10 hours per week for individual contributors (ICs), 

• 20 hours per week for managers. 

New meetings that exceed this quota forces an existing meeting to be deleted before a new meeting can be accepted.

Automated meeting follow-up workflow

• All participants anonymously rate how effective the meeting was [1-5] for their individual purpose.

• All participants answer "This could have been a Slack thread." [Y/N].

Automated Meeting Scheduler workflow

• Includes a mandatory checkbox: "we tried to resolve this issue on Slack" before booking.

• Forbids creating a meeting without an agenda and associated Notes doc.

• Verifies that the meeting notes include at least one task is created

• Warns if number of tasks and assignees is disproportional to number of participants

• Forbids creating a meeting with more than X participants; requires manager approval

• Calculates and displays meeting cost in the description and notes doc

• Requires mandatory inclusion for the reason each participant is invited

• Adds meetings coach approver or manager approval to restrict meeting creation for organizers who score low on meeting effectiveness.

A Zoom meeting will always be much less effective and much less enjoyable than meeting in real life. Let's stop pretending otherwise.