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I'm not sure it can be removed, fundamentally. After all, if everyone sent out their emails, so to speak, what would be left for the meeting? I mean, what are the odds of someone discovering something worthwhile to communicate to the team just seconds before the meeting starts? Any earlier and the email would have already been sent and there would be nothing left for the meeting. Maybe it happens once in a blue moon,…
> After all, if everyone sent out their emails, so to speak, what would be left for the meeting? One thing I've learned is that a lot of people simply don't read emails. You can send out all the status emails you want, no one is going to read them unless it's directly related to their own work. Short, frequent status meetings ensure that people are actually aware of the status and gives them a chance of unblocking yo…
In fact, there was once advocacy towards a style of meeting (oft called a "standup") where you explicitly called upon participants to give their status update because it was recognized that they wouldn't be paying attention and needed prompting to snap them back, although this has largely fallen out of favour as we realized that only kept their attention for the length of their update and didn't achieve the desired effect.