Planning Session for The Next 12 Months

After discussing a possible application for a project funding of our research, I sat down with the my colleagues to evaluate the situation.
The first step was to summon all possible achievements until today and to put these into the big picture. After approx. 2hours we had them sorted out.
The 2nd step then involved probing through ideas, visions, and hints we had so far. These then had to be included into the big picture to show what will be possible with our research in the long term.

As was to be expected, we extracted several tasks to check further research scopes and we will try to make this presentable by September, 20th.

From then on, we will try to write the application as well as focus the research on the big picture we just drew. This includes writing down my work for the purpose of finishing my PhD thesis.
Hopefully, this works out the way we planned it today.
But I have to say - it's a solid approach which makes a lot of sense.

I am off to San Francisco now - cya in a couple of weeks.