Design review meetings are product development check-ins led by the design team that happen after ideation and planning. Their ultimate purpose is to gather feedback on prototypes from decision makers, so that your product design achieves its goal of solving the problems your team identified for your end user.
Design review meetings are more effective when the agenda is well defined: bad performance of our persistence layer; a new regulator needs to be supported; integration with the company’s e-commerce system. Design review meetings must be done before a big change starts and potentially a few times during the development of a big piece of work, but not more often than that. If the change is too big, it should be broken down into smaller and incremental steps.