My weekly project review meetings with my team have ballooned from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. Yesterday we ran 2 hours. I used to have 3 projects but now have 7. OneNote I've been updating has become gargantuan. The senior lead is complaining that the meetings are too long and i told him due to the # of projects and deep dives we do i dont see a way to make them shorter.

PM's out there: How can i possibly cut down the time of these meetings?

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Tell everyone they have five minutes (or whatever time restriction you choose) to speak. No solutioning allowed during the call. Any conversations that don’t require everyone’s involvement should be held separately.

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Agendas with time limits can help steer conversation. It might be valuable to ask that people complete work or brainstorm beforehand and come with ideas rather than on the fly.

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In addition to the other advice, don't let the team design or troubleshoot issues during the meeting. That is for smaller focused groups.

It's myself and two or three others normally. So it is a smaller group to begin with

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