What are Silent Meetings?
“Silent Meetings” are meetings where most of the time is spent working and not talking. When done correctly most of the meeting is spent silently working together.
Is it 100% silent? Not really… A rule of thumb is a silent meeting is where more than 50% of the time is spent silently and the time that is not silent is spent on topics that can’t be resolved through comments in a doc (e.g. coordination problems, difficult conversations).
Where did they start? I’m not sure… but my lineage goes back to Amazon via Square and now Twitter.
Why Silent Meetings?
Silent meetings fix many issues that are common with “loud meetings”: