Are your meetings mired in short-term thinking?

Many of our meetings are "missing the forest for the trees," and lack the bigger picture.

If it feels like your meetings are in a rut, you can raise the altitude. Here's how... 👇

First, you’re not alone in feeling that. This is very common, especially in teams that are still primarily delivery-oriented and aren't used to leveraging all the brains on the team toward what we build and why. If you're sheltering your developers, stop.

The problem is that nobody has been driving shared clarity on the 3 fundamental questions we must answer about [feature X], which raise the altitude of discussion:

(1) Who's it for?

(2) What's it for?

(3) How will we know if it's working?

Unless someone has made it their personal priority to drive ongoing clarity on these questions, you’re likely to find a pretty wide spread of responses from around the team(s). You might be shocked at how few people can give a cogent answer to those. While simple, they provide enormous clarity.

By the way: anyone can lead this conversation. This isn't reserved for the most senior person with formal authority.

Might as well be you.

Have you tried this? Or where else do your meetings get mired? Hit reply and let me know.