This reminded me the way we did Design Reviews at some multinational corporation. I would write and print a design document of 30-50 pages long, schedule a 1-2

This reminded me the way we did Design Reviews at some multinational corporation. I would write and print a design document of 30-50 pages long, schedule a 1-2 hours meeting and send the document in advance to those 5-10 people attending. Off-course only 1-2 persons would actually read in advance. Then we were reading it page by page and discussing it, giving special attention to various diagrams, such as flow charts, sequence diagrams, FSMs and UMLs. We almost never were able to finish in time, so the next meeting should be scheduled (in 1 or 2 weeks because of scheduling constraints) ...