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You'll get better mileage by just setting the default meeting length to 45 minutes rather than an hour in your calendar software.

• quickthrower2 5y ago
  15 is a good default. You'll soon extend it if you get a gut reaction 'that's not enough'. More likely than you'll shrink a longer meeting to 15 if it defaults to 45 or 60.
  • caffeine 5y ago
    We had people do this. It sounds good in theory but in practice you wind up scheduling the next meeting 45 minutes later because you know the first one will run over. The second or third time the “boss” rolls into a meeting 30 minutes late, you go look at his calendar and realise somebody scheduled a 1 hour session as a 15 minute catch-up.
    • quickthrower2 5y ago
      Meeting discipline is also needed for 15 min meetings to work! This and good estimation skills. Ideally meetings would be planning things in advance that scheduling a follow up isn’t the end of the world.