Peopleware: Working Meetings Test

Working meetings have a charming characteristic. You know when they’re done. When the decision has been reached, there is no further need to meet. Before it’s been reached, the meeting is not yet complete. ’

Same idea backwards: If you can say definitively what group action terminates the meeting, then it’s a working meeting. If you can’t, it isn’t.

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A meeting that is ended by the clock is a ceremony.⊕ (DeMarco and Lister 2013, chap. 31)