Working with Mates

Last week from Monday to Friday I had my friends Bastian Allgeier and John Davey here at my house to learn the one or other thing about Kirby. John is new to Kirby and I had a few questions as well and so we planned this trip, which was actually planned as a trip to Berlin, for quite a while. Not only turned it out to be great fun to see these two people, but it also reminded me how much fun it can be to work in a team. The conversations we had were absolutely refreshing and inspiring and even small things like a comment to something you do on your event site were pure joy as usually we all, at least John and I do, sit in our home office alone and mostly don’t get direct feedback to ideas. I enjoyed the three days a lot and hope we are able to repeat this pretty soon.

Funny enough on Friday, Anselm Hannemann has written about a similar topic in his Web Development Reading List.

But did you know it can be so much fun to improve as a team?

This was one of the statements (yeah, I know it was a question, but I think it has more rhetorical meaning than that it is actually a question) he made and he is absolute right. From time to time it can be quite refreshing to get together, to get new views on ideas, your work, or even to as questions. A team is not really only a team when working on the same project. Event if you meet and work on your own stuff the whole time, you are working all together. The benefit of this is also the time in between working times: we took a long walk in the forest, went and got some dinner in the evening and enjoyed a few coffees and – yes, of course – the one or other glass of gin.