During a design review meeting, the project team meets to approve documents and decide on whether to move on to the next stage. Documents are reviewed beforehand, and any changes are brought up during the meeting. Now what is interesting is the culture. In my design review meetings, we had multiple project teams discussing the documents. There was a moderator and a scribe. The moderator would review the documents and the scribe would write down any proposed changes. The project team in question were forced to stay completely silent and were not allowed to respond to any design change requests until after the meeting. This was the culture for my capstone design review meetings.

I’m curious, however, for those of you who are working in industry. How was the culture in your design review meetings? Have you experienced several different design review meeting cultures?