Your Meeting Needs a Google Doc
<p>A little while ago, an engineer scheduled an early morning meeting on my calendar.</p>
<p>“Sync on Project X,” 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 — a project I hadn’t worked on for a few months, but was moderately well versed in.</p>
<p><em>What questions should I prepare for?</em> I wondered. I decided to reach out to the engineer who had scheduled it.</p>
<p>Me: <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: <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>
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