This post is about me paying gratitude to my team.
Dear Team.
After enduring the greatest and the most memorable rollercoaster ride, it's time to say good bye to 2015. But before we move on, let's recall some of the moments and achievements for which each one of us contributed from our blood and sweat.
Team’s Emotions
In our journey, we felt able, adequate, angry, annoyed, anxious, apprehensive, assured, beautiful, burdened, capable, cautious, charmed, cheerful, comfortable, compassion, concerned, confident, confused, contented, courageous, crushed, delighted, depressed, determined, disappointed, dissatisfied, doubtful, drained, eager, elated, embarrassment, energetic, enthusiastic, excited, exhausted, fascinated, fear, frustrated, glad, glorious, good, graceful, grateful, great, happy, hesitant, hopeful, humorous, ignored, indifferent, inspired, intimidated, joyful, jumpy, lively, magnificent, nervous, ok, overwhelmed, panic, pleasant, positive, pressured, relaxed, relieved, sad, satisfied, scared, stressed, strong, surprised, thrilled, tired, uncomfortable, upset, wasteful and worried.
Yes – I am sure we can relate to all the vocabulary in above emotions which we have collected from our Team Temps. (though above list is actually from Google)
So Who are our Heroes?
May not be only those among us who are highly qualified and experienced in professional life and may not be only those who are equipped with the brilliant skills and knowledge - be it functional or technical.
Among us, our heroes are:
~ those with hunger and thirst of picking up technical and functional skills in less turnaround time
~ those who communicated their blockers and their concerns on timely basis which were stopping them and us to deliver their work
~ those among us who asked for help without hesitation
~ those who inspired us - among us - by challenging the champions around us with new ideas, fearless suggestions
~ those who listened actively, who communicates constructively, who came to meetings on time and participated and took initiatives
~ those who shared openly and willingly
~ those who cooperated and got help for us and who rescued us by being the problem solvers
~ those who went through that extra mile of making sure that their code will not break the build
~ those who made sure with non-stop queries that the acceptance criteria are clear
~ those who provided inputs again and again for our test scenarios and who tirelessly and continuously worked on the never ending scenarios
~ those who didn't wait to reach out, whether within the team or outside, and made that contact on their own without getting IM, TL, PM involved
~ those who supported their work and supported others as if they are the last person standing and the only hope of the our World.
Déjà vu right !!!
Am I sounding very dramatic !!! And why not, when we have Superman, Cat woman, Spiderman, Batman, Wonder woman and so on among us ... living and breathing among us, in our team rescuing each other and us every moment.
None of Us is as Smart as All of Us !!!(This quote is by Klen Blanchard who is a management Guru)
We in our team are among the best from our individual Organizations. We exist because we are expected to know how we execute our work using our skills. We exist not to be told and not to be micro managed of what should be doing and how we should be doing our work.
We delivered our mapping work, template work, foundation work with brilliant quality and testing (in whatever time we had). Absolute fantastic work and co-ordination in getting our technical work done though in Agile, we never say done unless we have business value delivered in which we struggled a bit and we realized finally (the way I see) that the model with Business Reps and us working together works and is producing brilliant results though one never know, as there could be even better options out there – the ideas still being explored - to make our delivery even more simple and less stressful on everybody.
Just a big load of Thanks from here on …
Courtesy our PMs and TL, they voiced our concerns, understood and supported our cause and justifications, worked hard for us to give a conducive healthy work environment, helped us move ahead continuously and kept us lively and kicking. Thanks to them for believing in us.
Hats off to our members and a big applause to the team, who agreed late hours and weekend work, who changed their own plans in the last minute to accommodate work related support, and who believed in the plans and the goals, who stayed put holding the fort.
Also, a big thanks to our friends and support, from outside streams, who supported us in our work be it development or testing related, who supported our environments, our batch runs and who supported us with the knowledge and skills which we may have lacked in our team.
Finally and the most important one, heartfelt thanks to our families and near and dear ones who let go of us – willingly and unwillingly - so that we can be available for our work and be with the team on odd hours and odd days.
Ending this with a very big thank you and few inspiring quotes:
"And, when you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
- Robert Frost
The battles are won. The war still continues.
Regards(I published the original article in LinkedIn on 18-Dec-2015)
Dear Team.
After enduring the greatest and the most memorable rollercoaster ride, it's time to say good bye to 2015. But before we move on, let's recall some of the moments and achievements for which each one of us contributed from our blood and sweat.
Team’s Emotions
In our journey, we felt able, adequate, angry, annoyed, anxious, apprehensive, assured, beautiful, burdened, capable, cautious, charmed, cheerful, comfortable, compassion, concerned, confident, confused, contented, courageous, crushed, delighted, depressed, determined, disappointed, dissatisfied, doubtful, drained, eager, elated, embarrassment, energetic, enthusiastic, excited, exhausted, fascinated, fear, frustrated, glad, glorious, good, graceful, grateful, great, happy, hesitant, hopeful, humorous, ignored, indifferent, inspired, intimidated, joyful, jumpy, lively, magnificent, nervous, ok, overwhelmed, panic, pleasant, positive, pressured, relaxed, relieved, sad, satisfied, scared, stressed, strong, surprised, thrilled, tired, uncomfortable, upset, wasteful and worried.
Yes – I am sure we can relate to all the vocabulary in above emotions which we have collected from our Team Temps. (though above list is actually from Google)
So Who are our Heroes?
May not be only those among us who are highly qualified and experienced in professional life and may not be only those who are equipped with the brilliant skills and knowledge - be it functional or technical.
Among us, our heroes are:
~ those with hunger and thirst of picking up technical and functional skills in less turnaround time
~ those who communicated their blockers and their concerns on timely basis which were stopping them and us to deliver their work
~ those among us who asked for help without hesitation
~ those who inspired us - among us - by challenging the champions around us with new ideas, fearless suggestions
~ those who listened actively, who communicates constructively, who came to meetings on time and participated and took initiatives
~ those who shared openly and willingly
~ those who cooperated and got help for us and who rescued us by being the problem solvers
~ those who went through that extra mile of making sure that their code will not break the build
~ those who made sure with non-stop queries that the acceptance criteria are clear
~ those who provided inputs again and again for our test scenarios and who tirelessly and continuously worked on the never ending scenarios
~ those who didn't wait to reach out, whether within the team or outside, and made that contact on their own without getting IM, TL, PM involved
~ those who supported their work and supported others as if they are the last person standing and the only hope of the our World.
Déjà vu right !!!
Am I sounding very dramatic !!! And why not, when we have Superman, Cat woman, Spiderman, Batman, Wonder woman and so on among us ... living and breathing among us, in our team rescuing each other and us every moment.
None of Us is as Smart as All of Us !!!(This quote is by Klen Blanchard who is a management Guru)
We in our team are among the best from our individual Organizations. We exist because we are expected to know how we execute our work using our skills. We exist not to be told and not to be micro managed of what should be doing and how we should be doing our work.
We delivered our mapping work, template work, foundation work with brilliant quality and testing (in whatever time we had). Absolute fantastic work and co-ordination in getting our technical work done though in Agile, we never say done unless we have business value delivered in which we struggled a bit and we realized finally (the way I see) that the model with Business Reps and us working together works and is producing brilliant results though one never know, as there could be even better options out there – the ideas still being explored - to make our delivery even more simple and less stressful on everybody.
Just a big load of Thanks from here on …
Courtesy our PMs and TL, they voiced our concerns, understood and supported our cause and justifications, worked hard for us to give a conducive healthy work environment, helped us move ahead continuously and kept us lively and kicking. Thanks to them for believing in us.
Hats off to our members and a big applause to the team, who agreed late hours and weekend work, who changed their own plans in the last minute to accommodate work related support, and who believed in the plans and the goals, who stayed put holding the fort.
Also, a big thanks to our friends and support, from outside streams, who supported us in our work be it development or testing related, who supported our environments, our batch runs and who supported us with the knowledge and skills which we may have lacked in our team.
Finally and the most important one, heartfelt thanks to our families and near and dear ones who let go of us – willingly and unwillingly - so that we can be available for our work and be with the team on odd hours and odd days.
Ending this with a very big thank you and few inspiring quotes:
"And, when you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
- Robert Frost
The battles are won. The war still continues.
Regards(I published the original article in LinkedIn on 18-Dec-2015)
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