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Run a 15-minute weekly support huddle that gets used

A small team often skips the support meeting because it turns into a long update. A short huddle with a fixed shape is different: it finds the one problem worth fixing this week and gives it an owner. Keep it brief, keep it to the same time and end with names and dates.

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Fix the time and the length

Pick one slot, the same every week, and stop at fifteen minutes. A short meeting is easy to keep, and a long one gets cancelled the first busy week. Hold it standing or on a call so nobody settles in.

Bring three things

Come with the ticket tags that grew this week, the three oldest open tickets and one customer message someone found hard. Pull them from your help desk before the meeting so nobody searches for them live.

Pick one problem

Choose the single issue that cost the most time or caused the most unhappy replies. Resist a list. One problem fixed each week is more than ten problems discussed.

Decide who does what

For the chosen problem, agree an action, an owner and a date. Typical actions are a new saved reply, a help article, a bug report or a change to a form. If nobody owns it, it will not happen.

Keep notes in one place

Write the decision in a shared note or a pinned ticket, no more than three lines. Next week, start by checking last week's action before choosing a new problem.

Leave other topics for later

Park anything that needs more than two minutes. Hiring, tools and pricing belong in a longer monthly conversation, such as a retro or your weekly review.

Questions

Who should come to the huddle?

Everyone who answers customers, plus whoever owns the product when a bug is on the list. Keep it to the people who can act.

What if there is nothing to discuss?

Check last week's action, close it and end early. A short meeting that finishes is a good sign.

How is this different from a weekly review?

A huddle chooses one fix for the coming week. A weekly review looks at the numbers across the team. Small teams can start with the huddle and add the review later.

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