How to run fast WFH meetings

Slow meetings are long meetings, which means less code, which means slower coding. And with everybody working from home, meetings can be even slower.

We’re about coding fast, so we must learn how to run fast meetings. In this post, we’ll go through different meeting archetypes and explain how to run the meeting as fast as possible so we can get back to coding.

I have an announcement: Broadcast

If you can start off your meeting with, I have an annoucement, you’re running a broadcast meeting.

A “broadcast” meeting is one where a single person broadcasts information to lots of people.

Skipping: Just send an email

You can replace this meeting with an email unless the information requires emotional sensitivity. Giving someone a raise or shuttering a project should be done over zoom, not email. Everything else, email works great.

Write the agenda, but don’t share it

Write an agenda to help organize your thoughts and know what to include and what not to. This prevents rambling and other timewaster…