Meetings are an everyday part of a PM’s life. We have meetings to align a team’s efforts, receive reports on work done, issues encountered, risk uncovered and to make plans for our next steps. Those plans will include schedules, action items, roles and responsibilities, coordination of work, etc. After an hour of discussion, there are a lot of details to keep in one head. To come away with useful information, someone must distill it all down into concise, readable notes.