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Here's an example of a case where I don't think good meeting discipline can help. If I'm in a meeting and I ask everyone on the engineering team what they think
by jujodi 7y ago
Here's an example of a case where I don't think good meeting discipline can help. If I'm in a meeting and I ask everyone on the engineering team what they think the number 1 highest value tech debt item is at the moment, then only the first person to answer is giving me an uninfluenced opinion, because every other person has now heard someone else's perspective and possibly altered their own before their turn. Instead, I prefer to ask every engineer to come to the meeting with their answer written down (or aggregated in my inbox with Keyory already) so that I can see what everyone's unfiltered opinion is and then direct the meeting from there.
- ska 7y agoI agree asynchronous communication can be important also, but disagree with at least the way it was articulated. "First comment" can have an anchoring effect, sure - but there is no reason that it has to dominate or really constrain the rest of the conversation. Your example sounds like the primary focus of a meeting. I agree people should come prepped for discussion then in order for it to be effective.
- jujodi 7y agoI knew there was some Daniel Kahneman in what I was trying to explain I just drew a blank on the word haha. That's really good feedback though, I'll have to work on a better way to articulate the particular struggle I'd like to focus on and not skew it with such strong wording about something completely different
- rejschaap 7y agoIn this situation I would ask everybody to write it down, collect all the notes, stick them on the wall and discuss them one by one.
- jujodi 7y agoOr if you're remote, screen share the Keyory email. It's been a long time since I've had a functional team meeting (vs. status or cross functional) anywhere but zoom