What does real teamwork feel like?
Lately when people have asked how things are at work, I have responded enthusiastically that we are sooo agile and productive. Then they ask what I mean by that. How do you explain an experience that others might not have any frame of reference for, that they did not experience? When their feelings around the words I use are very different from mine? During the past three years I have been a member of the "same" team. Well, only two of us have been in it all the time, others have come and gone. What we all feel who have been part of it is that we had something special. The past year we have also levelled up a notch. The fundamental feeling, I suppose, is one of joy. We feel happy seeing each other again after the weekend and look forward to building things together. Productivity-wise, we have been taking a product idea, brainstormed to decide what to build, broken it down into engineering tasks and released a small but well-loved feature to our customers, all within a ...
