Program Management for Open Source Projects

Make Your Meeting Productive

Problem: Your meetings feel like a waste of time. People are skipping them more often.

Meetings have a bad reputation because many of them are poorly run. People don’t mind productive meetings, so let’s see how we can make meetings useful.

It’s not enough to simply hold a meeting; you’ve been to plenty of aimless meetings, adrift on a sea of poor planning. A productive meeting requires planning. This is especially important in open source projects. Unlike in an unproductive corporate meeting where everyone is getting paid to be there, an unproductive community meeting is a waste of the precious time that your contributors donate to you.

To hold a productive meeting, you have to do work before, during, and after the ...