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You will need to meet with your team, with the executive who assigns the project, and with outside resources—at the onset of the project and possibly while the project is under way. The meetings should be short and carefully limited in agenda, or you will spend so much time in discussion that the project will be delayed unreasonably.
Meetings with outside resources or department managers should be held primarily to anticipate problems and solve them. Your agenda should be designed with six goals in mind, as listed below and summarized in Figure 10-2.