Your Meeting Needs a Google Doc

<p>A little while ago, an engineer scheduled an early morning meeting on my calendar.</p> <p>&ldquo;Sync on Project X,&rdquo; it read.</p> <p>The invite was scheduled for an hour, and included another engineer as well as their engineering manager.</p> <p>The goal of the meeting, presumably, was to talk about Project X &mdash; a project I hadn&rsquo;t worked on for a few months, but was moderately well versed in.</p> <p><em>What questions should I prepare for?</em>&nbsp;I wondered. I decided to reach out to the engineer who had scheduled it.</p> <p>Me:&nbsp;<em>Hi! I just noticed the meeting you scheduled about Project X. I was wondering if you could share an agenda, or if I could create a google doc for you to put some questions into so I can prepare (or even answer some of the questions) in advance. Thanks!</em></p> <p>The engineer:&nbsp;<em>Oh, sure! Go for it!</em></p> <p>Four questions ended up in the Google Doc.</p> <p>I had easy answers for two of them, shared a link to some documentation and screenshots for another, and had a follow-up question for the last one. The other engineer started a comment thread tagging another engineer to follow-up on that follow-up question, which resulted in a quick back-and-forth in the thread. In its entirety, the whole time I took to write my responses and the back-and-forth probably took no more than 15 minutes.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/the-coding-diaries/your-meeting-needs-a-google-doc-7de38787864b"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>
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