Meeting minutes, we can all agree, are useful in retracing and revisiting topics covered during meetings. As has been mentioned above, meeting minutes can help track some of the thought processes and logic that lead to decisions. Acting as a sort of narrative of the ebbs and flows of a project. In my own personal experience, meeting minutes have provided varying degrees of usefulness. At my current company, Pfizer, meeting minutes are not nearly as critical in my division. The work is very regimented and experimental and development work occurs in different groups. However, at my previous job, meeting minutes were absolutely essential. Primarily in order to keep my micromanaging manager in check. It helped to cover myself in the event that a “midnight inspiration” led him to question a decision or doubt the reason a particular course of action was being employed. In either case, meeting minutes have proven to be helpful.