Roast: the Q3 roadmap sync that circled the runway
- Grade
- C minus
- Could-have-been-an-email
- 7 / 10
- Decisions per hour
- 0.5
The verdict
A 55-minute meeting that produced one decision, and the decision was to schedule another meeting. The agenda said Q3 roadmap. The meeting said streak-widget colours for 20 minutes.
Highlights
- Minute 3: someone asked what the goal of the meeting was. Nobody bit.
- Minutes 12 to 31: a spirited debate about the podcast tab that ended exactly where it started
- Minute 42: the phrase "let's take this offline" was used to describe the topic the meeting was booked for
Habits to retire
- Reading the pre-read aloud, slowly, to people who wrote it
- "Quick question" as a preface to a nine-minute monologue
- Ending with "great discussion" instead of an owner and a date
Credit where due
It started on time, ended on time, and the one decision it did make, shipping the school-admin dashboard before the pilot, was the right call. There is a good 15-minute meeting hiding inside this one.
From the Jul 7 Q3 roadmap sync
Theo
Lin