Re: WG meeting structure

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Black, David <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > An approach that I like is that if discussion at the microphones is
    > going nowhere slowly, figure out who the key participants are and
    > charter a design team with a near-term deadline to come back with a
    > preferred outcome or a set of thought-out alternatives that are
    > conducive to hums in a room with 100+ people ... getting to an
    > agreement to disagree is much easier in a small design team than in a
    > room with 100+ people.

Yes, this is a good plan.

This is why I would like every WG to have 1HR session with as few conflicts
as possible, early in the week, and a second session later on in the week,
after sufficient unstructured time to have hashed out a solution.

Okay, so not every problem can be solved with five people, two couches and
seven beers, but I'll bet that a good problem statement can be articulated in
such a period of time, such that if you really need the formalism of a
chartered design-team, then you at least have the text by the end of the week.

    > On the original topic, the U-shaped structure is interesting, but a WG
    > chairs table may still be needed on one side of the screen so that the
    > WG chairs have a complete view of the action without their backs turned
    > to anyone.   I also want to reinforce that use of that structure needs
    > to be at the discretion of WG chairs.  Thinking about the WGs that I
    > have chaired and currently chair, there have been WG meetings for which
    > the U-shaped structure would work well and WG meetings for which it
    > would have been disastrous.

Care you provide some details?

I have a hypothesis that the WGs in which it would not work are dysfunctional
for a multitude of reasons.

All the WG sessions are on youtube... I spend many days after each meeting
watching the meetings I missed.  Can you handle 1.5 speed? 1.75? 2x? :-)


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