Status Meetings
Status meetings come in two flavors: those between you and the members of the project team in a one-on-one meeting and those between you and management. You probably noticed in the earlier list that I did not include team status meetings. That’s because public status meetings that are not daily standup meetings are serial status meetings and a waste of time (see Tip 19, Seek and Destroy Time-Wasting Meetings).
Determining Project Status
Here are the techniques I recommend you consider for obtaining project status from team members:
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Daily standup meetings (see Daily Standup Meetings)
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Weekly one-on-one meetings between you and each project team member (see One-on-One meetings)
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Weekly email status reports (cf. Obtain ...
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