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I am suspect of any strategic planning whose timing is based on the position of the earth relative to the sun. It should be continuous. However focused offsite
by quickthrower2 4y ago
I am suspect of any strategic planning whose timing is based on the position of the earth relative to the sun. It should be continuous.
However focused offsite to solve a specific business issue can be very useful. They might be managers only or everyone depending on the need.
- nieksand 4y agoI think periodic off-sites (or on-sites in the era of remote) are incredibly valuable even without a specific business issue to address. It's easy to say that strategic thinking and planning should be continuous, but in reality there's always a storm of immediate tactical tasks sucking up your attention. That's true for both software engineers (living in Jira tickets, sprints, and one-to-two quarter projects) and the c-suite. These sessions can force you to make time, put aside the tactical noise, and think.
- quickthrower2 4y agoThat is true! And I get it that calendar years are easier to get your head around (2023 plan rather than specific dates). By continuous I mean end of year shouldn’t be to special, you could have a rolling plan and amend it every month with offsite when it is felt that brainpower is needed and especially more grassroots input is needed.
- beckingz 4y agoThere is some utility to having fixed length formal"Plan - Execute - Review" cycles. Usually these don't match the day to day near continuous work enough to be useful, but so it goes.