Have you ever sat in a conference room with a dozen or more people around the table and wondered why are we here?
I have, and the answer is not good for your project budgets.
Consider the cost alone.
Say you have a dozen people in a meeting scheduled for an hour with an average burdened cost of $90,000 per year. That’s $43.27 per hour per person, or $519 per hour for the whole group.
The next question is, are we getting $519 worth of value from the meeting? Well, maybe.
But the follow-up question is, what other importance work is not getting done or is being delayed because the staff is sitting in this meeting?
So, back to the original question, why are we meeting?