Meeting Agenda Generator

In short An agenda is not a list of topics; it is a plan for the time. Each item needs three things a bare list lacks: an owner, a duration, and what the item is FOR — a decision, an update or a discussion. That last one changes everything, because an item marked "decision needed" gets prepared for and an item marked "discuss" reliably eats twenty minutes and produces nothing. Put the decisions first while attention is high, and updates last, since updates are usually the items that could have been a written note. Timings should add to less than the meeting length. An agenda that fills the full hour has no room for the discussion the meeting exists for, and the last item always gets squeezed — so leave ten minutes and use them to agree who is doing what. Circulating the agenda in advance is what turns it from a formality into a working document: it lets people prepare, and it lets someone who is not needed for any item say so and get their hour back.