[Hitchhiker 42]

Our team spends an all-day meeting for kickoff, rules discussion (understanding them) and then get to thinking about how we want to attack the game. We discuss our preferred strategy first, so we figure out what we want to be able to do.

Throughout week 1, our whiteboards get extensively dirty drawing up concepts up to about Monday/Tuesday of week 2, when we have a list of subsystems to build already.