[mallipeddi]

I worked at AWS for a while. So a lot of times when I've been in such meetings, the 6-page document was actually full of technical details (design docs, product FAQs, post-mortem reports, etc). So taking 20-30 mins to read through the full document, re-read some sections and write down questions/comments is not that unusual.

[gt384u]

Maybe it's just being on a team that's more focused on nontechnical users, but I still see plenty of PowerPoint. Product, sales, and business process people seem to swim in the stuff.

[res0nat0r]

When I was with AWS last year none of our meetings followed this type of structure. Someone put together a presentation in PowerPoint if needed, went through their items, people asked questions and action items were assigned. Pretty typical of any company I've worked for. Although I thought there were too many meetings to attend which took away many peoples development time.