Comments on: The Mythical One-Hour Meeting http://refactr.com/blog/2006/07/the-mythical-one-hour-meeting/ informs on and evangelizes best practices of using <a href="http://refactr.com/the-agile-manifesto/">agile methods</a> when designing and developing what are currently being called “Web 2.0” products and applications. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:52:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ben http://refactr.com/blog/2006/07/the-mythical-one-hour-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Ben Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:13:15 +0000 http://refactr.com/2006/07/06/the-mythical-one-hour-meeting/#comment-9 This has a lot to do with <a rel="nofollow" title="Jason Fried on minimizing meetings among other things" href="http://www.collaborationloop.com/blogs/ctc-2006-jason-fried-2.htm" rel="nofollow">the presentation by 37signals' Jason Fried</a> that I <a href="http://refactr.com/2006/06/26/jason-fried-on-collaboration-and-teams/" rel="nofollow">posted about</a> a couple days ago. Its not just the one hour (times each person) that you lose, but rather the one hour times each person plus the added time it takes each of those people to get back "in their groove" of working. It isn't a light switch that can be switched on and off. There is <a rel="nofollow" title="37signals interviews Khoi Vinh and Jeff Veen" href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/fireside_chat_with_khoi_vinh_and_jeffrey_veen_inhouse_vs_on_your_own.php" rel="nofollow">an interesting interview thread</a> with Jason and Matt from 37signals and Khoi Vinh (Design Director at the NY Times) and Jeffrey Veen (Product Director for Measure Map among other things) that discusses meetings and how the need for meetings may be something that increases with team size. Making meetings optional is also a sort of Darwinian way to make sure meeting leaders make sure that their meetings are relevant and important. I like it. This has a lot to do with the presentation by 37signals’ Jason Fried that I posted about a couple days ago. Its not just the one hour (times each person) that you lose, but rather the one hour times each person plus the added time it takes each of those people to get back “in their groove” of working. It isn’t a light switch that can be switched on and off.

There is an interesting interview thread with Jason and Matt from 37signals and Khoi Vinh (Design Director at the NY Times) and Jeffrey Veen (Product Director for Measure Map among other things) that discusses meetings and how the need for meetings may be something that increases with team size.

Making meetings optional is also a sort of Darwinian way to make sure meeting leaders make sure that their meetings are relevant and important. I like it.

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