Best way to manage minutes of meeting

Question

What is the best way of managing minutes of meeting on daily bases ? Do we have to manage the documents in a repository like VSS or it can be maintained in a excel sheet itself.

Kindly share your experience for the same and guide.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Source code control is not a great location for docs in binary format, so I'd use it as a last resort.

I'd suggest setting up a wiki or some internal website. We use Sharepoint for storing and managing this kind of doc. A wiki might not integrate too well with things like an Excel spreadsheet (although maybe it could be made to work), so you may need to store docs like that on a share drive and reference them from the wiki.

Another idea for a regular meeting like this might be an internal blog to report on progress and record minutes, again referencing docs on a share if needs be.

Answer 2

You should publish an agenda before the meeting and keep minutes with action items for each meeting. Part of the agenda should be to go through the action items from the previous meeting and either check them off, postpone them, or cut them if it's obvious they will never get done.

I would dump a copy of the minutes into whatever content management system you use.