It's usually possible for the person running a small project to ask everyone for status and know what everyone's going to say in the meeting before the meeting.

Then the meeting is pointless. But not all projects allow for that.

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o1bf2k25n8g5 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> It's usually possible for the person running a small project to ask everyone for status

Perhaps, for efficiency, they could ask everyone simultaneously in parallel, or at least roughly around the same time?

To maximize creativity and opportunity, perhaps we could then figure out some way to share each person's status update with every other person on the team?

	▲	kaashif 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Are you intentionally describing having a Slack chat for a project and asking for status updates there? You still don't need a meeting for that if everyone actually does it.

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coliveira 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Why do you think a larger meeting is a remedy for this? Quite the opposite, if you can't get a personal status from a large group, doing the meeting is completely pointless because it demonstrate lack of preparation.

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kaashif 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's not. That's not what I meant or said. I said not all projects allow for getting status ahead of time.

This is a nice way of saying that some people just won't tell you what they're up to async, you have to wring information out of them synchronously. They're just bad at communicating.

On a well functioning team I can rely on people just reporting status themselves when something relevant happens and reaching out for help. But some people just don't do that, especially people from other teams, departments, etc.

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coldtea a day ago | parent [-]

>This is a nice way of saying that some people just won't tell you what they're up to async, you have to wring information out of them synchronously.

Like, you explicitly ask them in an IM and they don't tell you?

Not telling you on their own, I can understand. If the former happens though, you have bigger problems, that asking on a real-life meeting wont solve.

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smeej a day ago | parent [-]

Seriously. This sounds like, "I can't manage my direct report, so I need to waste the time of everybody else on the team just so the little punk realizes he can't hide forever."

A team meeting should not be the go-to solution for "Bob is bad at communicating"!

	▲	kaashif 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It appears you didn't read my comment, here's the relevant part: > But some people just don't do that, especially people from other teams Hope this helps.