Define: "Wash-up Meeting" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Speak only in passive voice. Say 'mistakes were made' instead of 'I told you this would break six months ago.'"
A retrospective discussion held at the conclusion of a project to evaluate successes, identify areas for improvement, and document lessons learned.
What does "Wash-up Meeting" actually mean?
"A performative hour where everyone sits in a circle and pretends the project failed because of a 'process gapProcess GapManagement's diplomatic euphemism for 'someone completely ignored basic protocol, so now we are forcing everyone to fill out three new approval forms.'' instead of pointing out that the director deleted the production database."
"Please prepare your notes for tomorrow's wash-up meeting on the Q3 marketing campaign deployment."
"Let us schedule a wash-up meeting to figure out how we burned two million dollars on a vendor lock-inVendor lock-inWe are financially trapped by this licensing model and will never escape. contract."
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18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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