Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders

Chapter 24. Generic Project Meetings

The guides in this chapter provide general guidance for conducting collaborative project events; they remain methodology-neutral but reflect some basic detailed steps for accomplishing each meeting’s purpose collaboratively. They formulate some fundamental collaborative events within a project lifecycle:

•   Status Meeting

•   Strategic Action Planning

•   Process Change Workshop

•   Project Startup Meeting

•   Project Retrospective

Typically, the Project Manager is responsible for calling the meeting, inviting the participants for the meeting, facilitating the meeting, and ensuring that all outputs of the meeting are appropriately distributed or posted.

An Action Planning Workshop should produce one ...