I recently took part in a scrum planning meeting where the company mandated everyone to do it on site. The chaos was a stark contrast to anything we'd had virtually before that...
People suddenly forgot they could look things up on their computers, stopped using established business vocabulary, and even small things like speaking one at a time were lost on them.
During the meeting, someone decided to doodle on the paper board in the meeting room (vs. using the usual C4 format we have been using on Miro boards), creating confusion regarding what "this" and "that" block represents. There were no meeting minutes, and none of the conceptual decisions from the meeting ended up on the wiki...
Of course, many of these can be resolved with better discipline, but it really feels like the medium invites chaos. That same team works very effectively in virtual meetings, with the ability to supplement the discussion with well-thought messages via Slack or Wiki comments. Meeting recordings and audio transcripts help for better meeting notes and recording the meeting conclusions and outputs in a way that's transparent and searchable.
Also ... gifies, how can anyone stand a 1h meeting without emojis and gifies is beyond me :).
People suddenly forgot they could look things up on their computers, stopped using established business vocabulary, and even small things like speaking one at a time were lost on them.
During the meeting, someone decided to doodle on the paper board in the meeting room (vs. using the usual C4 format we have been using on Miro boards), creating confusion regarding what "this" and "that" block represents. There were no meeting minutes, and none of the conceptual decisions from the meeting ended up on the wiki...
Of course, many of these can be resolved with better discipline, but it really feels like the medium invites chaos. That same team works very effectively in virtual meetings, with the ability to supplement the discussion with well-thought messages via Slack or Wiki comments. Meeting recordings and audio transcripts help for better meeting notes and recording the meeting conclusions and outputs in a way that's transparent and searchable.
Also ... gifies, how can anyone stand a 1h meeting without emojis and gifies is beyond me :).