Meeting science

The principles and practices of meeting science have been adopted beyond the corporate world and integrated into diverse organizations, including local governments, military, associations, and foundations.

Unlike meeting science, which aims to make operators autonomous in applying best practices, facilitation involves methodological experts who intervene in a targeted manner during events to improve efficiency.

[3] With the publication of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, these approaches spread through the implementation of frameworks like Scrum, which includes specific meetings such as sprint planning and retrospectives, and the daily stand-up.

[19] In the United Kingdom Alan Palmer published Talk Lean in 2014, describing an approach developed in France in the 1990s by Philippe de Lapoyade and Alain Garnier, called Discipline Interactifs.

[21] In France, Alain Cardon proposed an original approach called delegated processes in the late 1990s to improve recurring meeting practices, particularly for executive committees and hierarchical teams.

Its etiology (the study of the overall causes of an illness) shows that the primary cause of this pathogen is a systemic failure by an organization to clarify or respect the responsibility and autonomy of its members – it's about a lack of empowerment.

Romain David and Didier Noyé, in Réinventez vos réunions, provide a synthetic and operational vision of the levers to activate for meeting efficiency.

[29] Sacha Lopez, David Lemesle, and Marc Bourguignon offer practical perspectives in their Guide de survie aux réunions, drawing on their expertise in facilitation.