An Agile parking lot acts as a storage space for unrelated input that arises during a meeting. For quick check-ins or dedicated sessions, the parking lot offers a virtual spot to record any ideas that you can’t address immediately but would like to come back to when there’s time. This project management technique helps your team stay focused on the task at hand without forgetting any miscellaneous feedback.

Use our parking lot template to set aside extra ideas, and give colleagues the opportunity to schedule future meetings for these thoughts.

Parking lot items are unrelated topics or ideas best tabled—or parked—for future discussion. If the questions presented pertain to an entirely different project or distract from the particular meeting’s goal, it’s safe to say they’re a parking lot item.

A parking lot matrix is the perfect tool for storing input for later while ensuring colleagues feel heard. Although parking lot questions don’t align with your meeting’s original goal, they can lead to valuable conversations—at the right time, with the right collaborators present.

FigJam’s meeting parking lot template helps organize questions or ideas that divert from your meeting’s agenda. Recording these contributions means your team can easily reference them during future discussions—good ideas don’t end up in the junkyard, just the short-term back lot.