A Meeting-Oriented Process for Streamlining Business Collaboration: A Conceptual Example of Software Development Case

Human beings play a critical role in any collaborative business activities, including software development. People and people-derived issues such as communication and teamwork efficiency and effectiveness are critical to their success. However, managing teamwork and stakeholder’ involvement is a challenging work, especially when we often see that a technical job may be easily done, it requires substantial efforts for relevant stakeholders on brainstorming with people, reviewing the work, explaining and convincing the work to clients/reviewers, etc. To help resolve this human-side collaboration and communication issue, this paper focuses on software development project as an example and draws an attention on project meetings, and illustrates a meetings-flow approach. In this preliminary study, we would show you the innovative definition on meetings in order to help model and streamline the collaborative proceeding of software development.