058: Better Meetings with John Poelstra

Meeting enthusiast and Engineering Program Manager John Poelstra shares how to give your meetings a needed boost.

You’ll learn:

1. When you do vs. don’t need a meeting
2. How to “blame the agenda” to advance your agenda
3. The CAT and WOOT frameworks for developing excellent meeting agendas

About John

John Poelstra is a Manager on the Engineering Program team at Red Hat, Inc., the world’s most successful open source software company. John is passionate about facilitating the best project meetings and he wants to help you do the same. He gets great satisfaction from bringing order to chaos and clarity to confusion so that owners can thrive. John achieves this using tools from a variety of disciplines including a current favorite, Trello.

Items mentioned in the show:

• Website: johnpoelstra.com
• Open source platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Open source online editor: Etherpad
• Collaborative text editor: Gobby
• Business meeting platform: Lucid Meetings
• Cloud-based video conferencing: BlueJeans
• Book: Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

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