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Meeting Poker
Purpose

Meeting Poker is a framework to keep meetings on track and limit off topic discussions. Meeting poker is more helpful for reoccurring meetings such as weekly team or project meetings. In addition to having rules that limit the amount of off topic discussions that take place it helps meeting attendees to be cognizant of the number of times they are taking meetings off topic and for how long.

Setup

Each meeting attendee is given seven poker chips, five white, one red and one blue.

Each chip has an amount of time associated with it along with a reuse policy:

White – One minute – White chips are returned at the end of the meetings

Red – Five minutes – Red chips are returned at the end of a meeting

Blue – Meeting time limit – This chip can only be used once a year

Rules

Chips can be doled out in advance or at the beginning of a meeting. During a meeting if someone wants to talk about an off-topic subject they must put in a chip corresponding to the amount of time they wish take the meeting off-topic. If an attendee wishes to rant about a subject they must also use a chip corresponding to the amount of time they want to use. At the end of the meeting all chips are returned to their owner.

History

Meeting poker was created by Alex Adkins in late 2011.