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Review Process for Its Purpose: Connect Meetings and Reports to Decisions

Summary

Learn to review meetings and reports against their purpose, identify necessary information, test a process change, and track time and decision delays.

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Review Meetings and Reports against the Decisions They Support

A process becomes an end in itself when performing it replaces its original purpose. Identify who uses a meeting or report and which decision it supports.

Preserve necessary safety and quality functions when reducing work. Trace the information used and actions decided.

Connect Meeting Purpose with Decided Work

Document information shared and decisions needed for each recurring meeting. Atlassian describes reviewing meetings and moving suitable ones to written formats. (Atlassian: Audit team meetings)

Distinguish decision sessions from reports that can simply be read.

Identify Report Readers and Necessary Fields

Investigate who used each field and reconsider unused sections. Some records still require preservation for applicable rules or audits.

Distinguish retained records from everyday explanations when choosing formats.

Change One Process and Observe Its Effects

Change one recurring report for a trial period and record time and decision delays. Repair missing fields or communication routes.

Assign ownership and readers for public activity information too, keeping it aligned with current work.

For the related decision, read Decide which work to reduce.

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Frequently asked questions

Q: Should every meeting be reduced?

A: Preserve necessary decision and safety functions.

Q: How should report fields be chosen?

A: Use decision needs and retention purposes.

Q: What should a trial measure?

A: Time, decision delays, and missing information.

Q: Should public activity information be reviewed?

A: Update it to reflect current work and reader needs.

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