Even after this flexible time in one scrum our team decided to fix a common time for the team to have lunch and also for the snacks.
Now our complete team sets the Skype status to "Away for Lunch" at 1:00pm and joins back the work before 2:00pm. This is done in agreement as a team. I feel this as a synergistic decision. This decision taken by the team has created a spirit of team in one more way. We have one more things to tell all about what we do as a team. This one act saves lot of time as all are away for the same 1 hour window and become available for collaboration at the same time.
(Snacks image courtesy by NTT)The same thing we have done for the snacks time. Our team now head towards the pantry at 5:00pm and enjoy the snacks time together for half an hour. We join back at work before 5:30pm and this way again show our support to the team.
By setting a fix time window for lunch and snack we achieve better productivity and coordination in the team. It feels good to follow a decision taken collectively as team as it connects me with my team. Just following one decision taken collectively I can feel involved and more connected. This is an amazing feeling.
with regards
Tushar Joshi, Nagpur
Nice article! and the photo of paav-bhaji was simply tempting!
ReplyDeleteHowever, one point that bothers me... By moving together as a team wherever they go, whatever they do, even during the break hours, aren't your team-members isolating themselves from other office-colleagues?
In my opinion, break time should be used to reach across to other projects and get to know more people in the company.