We ran every recurring meeting at 20 minutes for a month. Here's what broke, what didn't, and the one we made longer.
By the editors of The Brief
Twenty minutes on the dial, then back to work.
What actually happened
The first week was chaos. Agendas that used to fill an hour didn't fit, and the loudest people kept talking past the timer. By week two, the agendas got shorter instead.
The standing design review was the exception: 20 minutes wasn't enough to look at anything properly, so we gave it 45 and moved it to every other week.
