Team building: Software team cohesion

Nov 1, 2023 | News | 1 comment

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Team cohesion is the basis for any initiative or project that needs to be carried out, and it is also the driving force of our organization. However, these bonds must be strengthened on a regular basis.
That is why our Software team met at OSF at the end of September. It was a special occasion, as it was the first time that everyone was able to meet and get together in person on this Team Building day. Everyone together, no one online, regardless of their shifts and locations.
“It was quite profitable, it served to reinforce the identity of the team as all the people were physically together,” assures Rubén Soto, manager of the Software group, which belongs to the Computing department.

“Like the entire observatory, we are undergoing this transformation from a model that was 100% face-to-face to a hybrid model. I believe that this type of activity serves precisely to reinforce the way in which people interact or how they perceive that sense of belonging to a team. We are a cohesive group, even though we are not physically together,” adds Rubén.

The day included didactic spaces, such as when the participants were divided into groups to form 3D sculptures without being able to talk to each other.
“The activity was super entertaining, innovative, it was something I had not experienced before,” says Camila Martínez, Software Engineer. “You had to let your imagination fly, but it was a nice experience in the sense that you had to learn to communicate.”

Camila stresses how important it was to share with her colleagues because she was able to “get to know them better and interact in a different way, not so much to ask them for things. What we most commented is that it was very useful for all of us,” she concludes.

María Jesús López, our Frontline Software Support Engineer, agrees, who found the Team Building to be “super fun! Because we got out of our comfort zone to do manual things, get the plasticine, the creativity, and that was hard at first, but then we were more relaxed,” she says.

And the most important thing is what they learned from the activities, because they reflected their way of working: “I think that sometimes we need to communicate better and be more explicit about certain actions that later have repercussions in the future. Cycle changes, software changes, all these things are small pieces of a tower that can fall apart at the last minute. Therefore, the most important thing is to be communicated, and for everyone to be aware of things”, concludes María Jesús.

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