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Office Relocation 2022: a week in Croatia

The sixth week in the series took us to Dalmatia: two villas near Sevid between Trogir and Rogoznica, working hours from 8:00 to 16:00, a competition against our own CMS and a zipline tour near Omiš.

The cloudtec team in orange helmets and climbing harnesses on a rocky ledge above the canyon, mountains under dense clouds behind.

For us, Office Relocation means the office moves for a week, and it moves completely. In 2022 it was Croatia, from 10 to 17 September: 14 people, two villas near Sevid on the Dalmatian coast, between Trogir and Rogoznica, with a pool and garden. Among ourselves the house soon became simply ‘Homebase’.

How the series came about and what operations need for it is in the post about the week in Robion.

Getting there and the daily rhythm

We met at 06:50 at Bern station, took the train to Geneva and at 11:00 flew on to Split. On arrival: hire cars, a big shop in Trogir, check-in at 16:00.

Work runs from 8:00 to 16:00, with a lunch break for everyone, no exceptions. Friday belongs to the team, without laptops, and we make up the hours this costs over the course of the year. We always eat together: cooking in teams, barbecues at the Homebase, and in between, evenings in Trogir, Poljica and Split.

Five people work on laptops at a laid table under a canopy, palm trees and the sea behind.
A temporary workplace: the Homebase near Sevid.

What we worked on

To start, a competition against our own software: who can crash the Page Bundle? A morning in which the whole team deliberately tries to break our own CMS foundation finds more edge cases than any test suite. Several people found bugs; the one who crashed it was Lukas, with a timestamp collision bug: two actions in the same second produced identical IDs, because these were generated from the timestamp in the background. On top of that came three presentations from the team, on invoicing, on dashboards and filters in Jira and on working with Git; on Monday afternoon a Lightning Decision Jam, in which we collect problems and rate them in a fixed order; and on Wednesday the end of the sprint with demos and a retrospective.

Croatia after 16:00

On Sunday the beach on our doorstep, with pedalos and stand-up paddleboards for hire, and later drinks on the roof terrace above the coast.

Two people on stand-up paddleboards in a turquoise bay, a village with white houses on the hillside behind.
Sunday on the doorstep: stand-up paddleboards in the bay.

Then an afternoon in Split, an evening with pizza and a boules tournament at the Homebase, and in between the evenings by the pool, when the sun disappears behind the offshore islands.

Several people by the pool of a villa in the evening sun, the sea and offshore islands behind.
End of the working day by the pool, looking out to the islands.

And on Thursday the zipline tour near Omiš, high above the Cetina canyon. The group photo in helmets and harnesses is the only one of the week with everyone in it.

A person hangs from the zipline above a wooded canyon, a platform with people waiting in the background.
Thursday on the line: above the Cetina canyon near Omiš.

‘Having the sea right on the doorstep was brilliant. There was plenty of food: three full shopping trolleys on Saturday, and after three days it had all been eaten.’

Lukas Knöpfel, Senior Fullstack Software Developer

The following year we went on to Valencia.

Written by Trevor Timmers COO / Senior Project Manager

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