Archives for: March 2005, 14
Effective Project Meetings
03/14/05 | by Clarise Z. Doval Santos ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
| Categories: Project Management
| Categories: Project Management Project meetings are important in maintaining good communication. The objectives of project meetings are to make decisions and communicate project updates on decisions previously made. Meetings with no clear objectives waste time and money.
The following are some techniques to conduct effective meetings:
- Have clear objectives for the meeting; define the issues and processes
- Have an agenda; publish, distribute and follow the agenda
- Follow a format for conducting the meeting
- Facilitate the meeting towards making decisions not only towards discussing the problem
- Listen and foster creative, collaborative thinking and discussion
- Keep the meeting short; one of our customers calls it part of the 3 B's: "be brilliant, be brief and be seated"
- Invite only the necessary people
- Assign someone to take minutes of the meeting; publish the minutes of the meeting
Bagels, muffins and coffee for morning meetings will entice the team to attend the meeting but make it productive not only for the stomachs. 
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