A meeting without an agenda is a conversation, and sometimes that’s what you need. More often it’s a way of using everyone’s time without a clear purpose. The minimum for a useful meeting: a stated goal, the right people in the room, and a record of what was decided. [[Documenting meetings]] turns that record into a usable system rather than a pile of notes.
[[Meetings are not the place to surprise people]] is the upstream condition: if the important things have been shared before the meeting, the meeting itself can be short and decisive. [[Changelog as a consistent communication tool]] is often the right replacement for a progress meeting, creating the same shared awareness without requiring everyone in the same room.