Turn a bloated staff meeting into a MoSCoW agenda

The recurring meeting treats every agenda item as equally live and urgent. Use MoSCoW to protect synchronous time for the few topics whose absence would break the meeting's purpose. The common trap is calling too many items Must Haves because they are important in general, even when the meeting can still succeed without discussing them live today. 1. Define the meeting's job Write one sentence describing what success looks like for this meeting. You cannot classify agenda items well until the room knows what the meeting is actually supposed to accomplish. 2. Test each item against failure Ask, 'If we…

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