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1# Action-Item Discipline — why meetings without owned actions are theater
2
3The third discipline of the `meetings` skill: the meeting's output is not the discussion, the
4slides, or even the decision — it is the set of committed next actions that exist afterwards. A
5meeting that ends without owned, dated actions consumed its budget and produced a feeling. This
6file documents the canon behind `action_item_extractor.py` and its two flags, **ORPHAN** (no
7owner) and **NO-DUE** (no date).
8
9## The next-action rule (why vague intentions don't survive)
10
11David Allen's *Getting Things Done* (Penguin, 2001) built its entire system on one observation:
12outcomes don't get done, **next actions** do. "Handle the pricing situation" is a project;
13"Maria sends the pricing one-pager by Friday" is an action. Allen's test — *what's the very next
14physical, visible activity, and who takes it?* — is exactly the shape the extractor demands: a
15verb, an owner, a date. Anything in the notes that fails the test ("we should think about X",
16"the team agreed X matters") is deliberately not extracted, because promoting sentiment to a
17checklist launders vagueness into false progress.
18
19## One owner, not a committee
20
21Every extracted item gets exactly one owner or an **ORPHAN** flag. This is the "Driver" /
22"Accountable" insight of the DACI and RACI decision frameworks (documented in the Atlassian Team
23Playbook's DACI play): when a task has two owners it has zero, because each can reasonably assume
24the other has it. The extractor never auto-assigns an orphan — assignment is a human commitment,
25and a name typed by a script is not a commitment. The flag's job is to force the assignment
26conversation while the room (or thread) still remembers agreeing to the work.
27
28## A date, or it drifts
29
30George Doran's original SMART memo ("There's a S.M.A.R.T. Way to Write Management's Goals and
31Objectives," *Management Review*, 1981) made **time-bound** one of the five criteria for a reason:
32an undated commitment cannot be late, so it never becomes urgent, so it loses every scheduling
33contest against work that can. The extractor captures "by/due/before <date>" phrasings and flags
34the rest **NO-DUE**. The fix costs five seconds at recap time ("Alex — by when?") and is the
35highest-leverage edit anyone makes to meeting notes.
36
37## Implementation intentions (the psychology of "who + when")
38
39The owner + date rule is not managerial superstition; it has a mechanism. Peter Gollwitzer's
40implementation-intentions research shows that goals formulated as *if-then* plans — specifying
41when, where, and how the action happens — are acted on at substantially higher rates than
42equally-motivated abstract goals, across dozens of studies (Peter M. Gollwitzer, "Implementation
43Intentions: Strong Effects of Simple Plans," *American Psychologist*, 1999; meta-analysis:
44Gollwitzer & Sheeran, *Advances in Experimental Social Psychology*, 2006). An action item with an
45owner and a date is an implementation intention; one without is a wish. Likewise, Locke and
46Latham's goal-setting research — the most replicated result in organizational psychology — shows
47specific, difficult goals reliably outperform "do your best" vagueness (Edwin A. Locke & Gary P.
48Latham, "Building a Practically Useful Theory of Goal Setting and Task Motivation,"
49*American Psychologist*, 2002).
50
51## Follow-through is the dropped phase
52
53Steven Rogelberg's meeting research finds the post-meeting phase is where most meeting value
54leaks: actions go unrecorded, unowned, or unrevisited, and recurring meetings quietly re-discuss
55last week's conclusions (*The Surprising Science of Meetings*, Oxford University Press, 2019).
56His prescriptions map one-to-one onto this skill's mechanics: end with a recap of commitments
57(the agenda builder's mandatory closing slot), record owner + deadline for each (the extractor's
58output shape), and open the next meeting against the last list (the emitted markdown checklist is
59built to be pasted into the next agenda's pre-read).
60
61## Why extraction is deterministic
62
63The extractor uses fixed patterns — checkboxes, `ACTION:`/`TODO:` prefixes, "@name will …",
64"Name will … by date" — rather than judgment. Two reasons. First, auditability: anyone can look at
65a line of notes and know whether it will extract, so the discipline is teachable ("write it as
66`ACTION: @sam … by Friday` and it will never be lost"). Second, honesty: a fuzzy extractor that
67infers actions from vibes recreates the original problem — commitments nobody actually made. If
68the notes contain no extractable actions, the correct output is the uncomfortable summary line
69saying so, not an invented checklist.
70
71## Sources
72
731. David Allen, *Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity*, Penguin, 2001
74 (next-action discipline; the verb-owner test).
752. Steven G. Rogelberg, *The Surprising Science of Meetings*, Oxford University Press, 2019
76 (follow-through as the dropped phase; end-with-recap prescription).
773. Atlassian Team Playbook, "DACI: Decision-making framework" (single Driver/Accountable;
78 two owners = zero owners).
794. George T. Doran, "There's a S.M.A.R.T. Way to Write Management's Goals and Objectives,"
80 *Management Review*, 1981 (time-bound as a first-class criterion).
815. Peter M. Gollwitzer, "Implementation Intentions: Strong Effects of Simple Plans," *American
82 Psychologist*, 1999 (and Gollwitzer & Sheeran 2006 meta-analysis) — who/when/where plans get
83 acted on; wishes don't.
846. Edwin A. Locke & Gary P. Latham, "Building a Practically Useful Theory of Goal Setting and
85 Task Motivation," *American Psychologist*, 2002 (specific goals beat vague ones).

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