Monday, January 28, 2008

Celebrating milestones


Developing software can be very stressful. Development cycles are getting shorter and management expect frequent deliveries. As a result, the teams are under constant pressure to provide results. When the results are constantly delivered, it looks obvious to the management.

But it is not obvious.....

And management should make the efforts to show gratitude and to ease the pressure. One of the things that can be done is to celebrate when major mile-stones are met.

In schema, we are celebrating whenever we release a new version of a product (Every 4 month).

We invite all the workers (Development teams, QA, Marketing, Technology teams, GUI design and Documentation) to a half day event. The event includes a fun part and than a dinner/lunch in a restaurant. The celebrations are part of the culture and are long remembered.

Here is a list of events that we already done:


  1. Cocktail making course in a professional bar school

  2. Playing Billiard

  3. Kart racing

  4. Cooking courses (Italian, Sushi, French)

  5. Movie

  6. Bowling

Today we celebrated the first release of our Mentor Server. We watch the movie National Treasure: Book of Secrets in the Cinema-City. Then we ate in the VIP room at Black Bar 'n' Burger.


I believe that software development should be fun. I suggest to celebrate whenever you can.

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