The hidden cost of the weekly status meeting

Die versteckten Kosten des wöchentlichen Status-Meetings

Thirty people. One hour. Once a week. At a blended cost of €100/hr, that's €3,000 per meeting and roughly €150,000 per year — and we haven't counted the 20 minutes before and after that nobody gets back.

The meeting exists because nobody trusts the dashboard. Fix the trust, and the meeting becomes a 15-minute decision review instead of a status reading.

The substitution

Before: "Tell me what you did this week."
After: "Here's what shipped, here's what's at risk, here are the two decisions we need."

The first version takes an hour. The second takes fifteen minutes — if the underlying signal is reliable.

Dreißig Personen. Eine Stunde. Einmal pro Woche. Bei einem gemischten Stundensatz von 100 € sind das 3.000 € pro Meeting und etwa 150.000 € pro Jahr.

Das Meeting existiert, weil niemand dem Dashboard traut. Stell das Vertrauen wieder her, und aus dem Meeting wird ein 15-minütiges Entscheidungs-Review.