• Meeting Planning, Management, and Follow-Up
• Team Meetings Descriptions Sample
• Effective Meetings Checklist
• Meeting Minutes Formats
• Action Item List Formats
• Meeting Evaluation Guidelines


• Special Meeting Issues
• Review Meeting Planning Worksheet
• Brainstorming Meeting Techniques
• Preventing & Solving Meeting Disruptions


• Agendas for Different Types of Meetings
• Sample Team Meeting Agenda
• Project Kickoff Meeting Agenda and Guidelines
• Multi-Project Kick-off Meeting Agenda
• Agenda for Preliminary Design Review Meeting
• Lessons Learned Meeting Agenda
• Project Closeout Meeting Agenda
• Agenda: Software Development Managers' Offsite Meeting

Review Meeting Planning Worksheet

Summary: A format to use to plan an upcoming review meeting, to be SURE it will accomplish what you need it to, whether it's approval from an executive committee for a project portfolio or annual budget; buy-in from everyone who needs to agree to goals of a project; approval of a design; agreement that a product is ready to ship; or finding errors or misunderstandings in project requirements, designs, and/or plans.

This worksheet will help you:

• Decide the overall purpose of the review meeting, as well as what a successful outcome will look like.
• Determine what materials will be needed for the review.
• Develop review questions to help focus attention of those reviewing materials prior to the meeting.
• Identify the materials, tasks, and actions required to get from pre-meeting coordination to the review meeting.

What you get:

• Instructions for using the worksheet.
• Example planning worksheet complete with sample information.