In terms of design meeting, several points may be addressed: What tends to happen whenever a project issue arises? In most project review meetings people immediately begin to discuss the issue. What is the chance that this will be the most important issue to be discussed? What is the chance that everyone in the room will share a common understanding of the issue? What is the chance that the right people will be in the room to resolve it? What is the chance that all the right information will have been gathered to address the issue? And, yet, the desire is to discuss it and try to resolve it.

Effective project-oriented organizations have identified two different types of project review meetings: the project status meeting and the resolution meeting. The project status meeting identifies project-related problems and opportunities; the resolution meeting identifies the right people, gathers the right information, and resolves the issues identified in the project status meeting.