Start on the strategy at least three months before the start. You plan the kick-off eight weeks ahead. The retrospective event in quarter two takes ten weeks (interviews and archive material take time). The client event in quarter three: twelve weeks. The closing event: eight weeks.
By spreading it out, the workload per phase is manageable. Much better than everything in one go for one big event.
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