Hey Reader,

"The are too many meetings is Scrum". Or so many people say. But in reality, whether you use Scrum or not, you probably have too many meetings.

There are a few things that you can implement to immediately free up your calendar and focus on what's really important. To help you with that, I wrote up a blog post.

In summary, I bring you 5 rules to follow to avoid useless meetings:

A meeting can only happen if it has a clear purpose.
No preparation means no meeting.
The work must happen IN the meeting.
Ppen conversation is not a way to run any meeting.
The timebox IS the timebox.

Read up on what those rules mean and how to implement them in my recent blog post "5 rules to follow to avoid useless meetings".

Make every meeting useful

I wanted to make a new video for you... I scripted it. I filmed it. And then I started editing it, and it was awful! I guess if you stop doing something for long enough, you kind of lose your skills.

Anyway, I thought that the content was still useful and important, and I wanted to share it nonetheless. I probably will make a video on this topic later, but you don't have to wait for it :)

Let's connect!

Thank you for reading. I hope you learned something new! Cheers,

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