The 5 P's for Effective Meetings

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SDLC STAGE’s MEETINGS Research essay “A meeting is a group of people who individually can accomplish nothing but who collectively decide nothing can be done.” Thomas Gorden. L.E.T. Chap. VII How many meetings do you find yourself in without a clear objective? How many times have you gone to a meeting that was a complete waste of time? There was no direction, no clarity on what the meeting was about, and no clear outcome or product after the meeting was over. Effective meetings don't materialize on their own. “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” –Thomas Sewell. There are five P’s to conduct an effective meeting: 1) Purpose 2) Product 3) Participants 4) Probable Issues and 5) Process These five key areas must be addressed to make sure the meeting achieves its purpose. If one of the areas is lacking or not addressed, the meeting will suffer from things such as inefficiency and lack of productivity. This essay includes a detailed view of meeting, addressing its P’s, at every stage of Software Development life cycle. The four stages are: 1) Feasibility - Charter – Requirements 2) Analysis and Design 3) Software/Systems Development (Implementation) and Testing 4) Deployment and Training  Feasibility - Charter – Requirements Business requirements are gathered in this phase. This stage is the main centre of the project managers and stakeholders. Meetings with managers, stakeholders and users are held in order to define the requirements like: who is going to use the system? How will they use the system? What data should be input into the system? What data should be output by the system? These are common questions that get answered during a re... ... middle of paper ... ...om http://www.skipprichard.com/3-secrets-cut-your-meeting-time-half/ Brown, Chance (2008) The 5 P’s for Effective Meetings in Mindmapping for Business. Retrieved 2013-12-10 from http://mindmapblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/the-5-ps-for-effective-meetings/ Whetzel, J. (2013). Five Ps of Effective Meetings. Retrieved 2013-12-10 from http://www.ehow.com/info_8204055_five-ps-effective-meetings.html Wilkinson, M. (n.d.). So, You Think You Run Great Meetings? In Leadership Strategies. Retrieved 2013-12-10, from https://www.leadstrat.com/resources/free-articles/113 Measom, C., & Media, D. Work - Chron.com. 5 P's of Effective Meetings | Chron.com. Retrieved from http://work.chron.com/5-ps-effective-meetings-1986.html Cameron, Kim and Whetten, David. Developing Management Skills. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004. 584-589.

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