[nieksand]

I 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]

That 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.