Metrics - Do you track initial meetings?

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To ensure clarity and consistency in our calendar invites, please follow the naming conventions below when scheduling meetings:

  • For an Initial meetings, include “Initial Meeting” in the subject line
  • For a Specification Review, include “Spec Review” in the subject line

This helps everyone quickly identify the purpose of the meeting, improves calendar visibility, and supports accurate reporting.

Subject: Northwind project with SSW and Bob

Figure: Bad example - Not clear it is an initial meeting

Subject: Initial phone meeting with Adam from SSW and Bob from Northwind

Figure: Good example - Includes the words "initial meeting" and the names of attendees

The Appointment should also be tracked (without regarding) in Dynamics 365 so that this information is readily available and reportable.

Important: In Dynamics 365 (Outlook add-in), set the “Regarding” field to an opportunity, not an account.

set regarding to opportunity
Figure: Initial Meeting created in Outlook and tracked to Dynamics 365 with correct regarding

The idea behind it is that Power BI can then show the time elapsed between each sales milestone.

time to win graph
Figure: Time to win report

initial meeting graph
Figure: Initial meetings report


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