• Action Items
    • Words on a paper don’t create accountability without action from us
    • There needs to be a public-facing accountability system, like a ticketing system, or a kanban system or something to ensure that more than just you knows about this
    • Todos.
    • Questions.
      • Questions are todos wrapped in uncertainty. Give them definition with a research
  • Decisions
    • Was this is a decision based meeting?
    • Did we come to a decision? Who was a part of it? Why did they make it? Does this meaQuestions are todos wrapped in uncertainty
  • Your personal understanding
    • Was there a term used you didn’t understand?
    • Part of the business you wish to understand better?
    • Is there someone you could chat with or somewhere you could explore within the system to understand something better?
    • What are the gaps / gains for your personal understanding?
  • Historical record
    • I question the value of the historical record. Why catalog the back and forth leading up to a decision or an action item?
    • It lets us understand how / why we arrived at a decision
      • Pros / Cons
    • The mindset of why we approached a decision is likely to stay similar and affect other future decisions
    • But The Note Vaccuum is real, these aren’t helpful with context and experience

Do they interrupt the pace and take away more value then they add? I think on paper yes, but in reality sometimes it’s the only way I can get a meeting member to respond or talk to me. As in, they don’t answer their messages or emails, so I need a voice call to get a check-in