12 May, 2024
by Mark Teisman
Reading time as part of the meeting. This is a concept that apparently is popular in certain parts of Amazon, and possibly elsewhere too. I most recently came across it when reading about the ADR process on the Amazon Web Services website. The idea is that in the first part of the meeting, everybody reads a document (the ADR in this case), silently. Readers add comments to the document. After the silent reading time, the rest of the meeting is spent going over each comment. If it looks like during the meeting the attendants won't be able to cover all topics, the last part of the meeting is spend to assign action items for all open topics.
I'm looking for other new ways to run meetings, efficiently, and will be trying this approach out.