Good article with great points. However... "For C#, on the other hand, it has worked really well to formalize: every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 1:00 to 3:00, we have a regularly scheduled meeting. We have a living agenda. Issues bubble to the top, and we knock them off. We have a wiki now on the internal web with the issues list, resolutions for them, and so on." - Anders Hejlsberg - http://www.artima.com/intv/csdes.html Have a clear purpose, come prepared, and end the meeting as soon as possible by summarizing action items, but don't force a productive meeting to stop just because 60 minutes have past.