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Office Relocation 2023: Valencia

We spent the seventh Relocation week on a finca in the hinterland of Valencia: 18 people, presentations in the mornings, an API hackathon on Wednesday and a boat trip on the free Friday.

Several people by the finca’s pool in the afternoon sun, pines and hills behind.

For us, Office Relocation means the office moves for a week, and it moves completely. In 2023 it was Spain, from 2 to 9 September. Instead of a hotel, a finca in the hinterland near Xàtiva, south of Valencia, with a pool, a kitchen and enough rooms to get out of each other’s way.

18 people, four hire cars, and a big shop ordered online before we arrived and delivered to the finca. We met at 08:20 at Bern station, took off from Zurich at 12:05 and landed in Valencia at 14:10.

How the series came about is in the post about the week in Robion.

The cloudtec team stands in a group on a lawn in front of olive trees, the edge of a pool on the right.
The team at the finca near Barxeta.
Four people work on laptops at a long wooden table in a room with a wooden ceiling.
The long table as a temporary workplace.

The rhythm

Work runs from 8:00 to 16:00, lunch together, Friday without laptops. We make up the missing hours over the course of the year. For clients the week goes unnoticed: the same contacts, the same response times.

What we worked on

The mornings belonged to presentations from the team: values and Scrum, invoicing and worklogs, and a session on ‘Getting Things Done’. On Wednesday an API hackathon, on Thursday the end of the sprint with demos and a retrospective.

A person presents in front of a screen showing a slide on the values of the Agile Manifesto, several people sit on sofas.
Values and Scrum in the morning, presented by the team.

Valencia after 16:00

On the free Sunday a mini golf tournament, one afternoon the beach with drinks at the beach bar. Dinners took us to Xàtiva and to the Platja de Gandia, with a pizza night and barbecue at the finca in between.

View over the rooftops of Xàtiva at dusk, a tall cypress on the left, a church tower and dome in the middle.
Evenings in Xàtiva, here from above the old town.

On the free Friday, first Valencia on foot, then a boat trip from the harbour.

A sailing yacht named Quicksail lies off the coast, around ten people sit on deck.
Friday without laptops: on the ‘Quicksail’ from Valencia.

‘Our verdict: lots of good ideas, strong teamwork and one lesson for life: Dodelidoo and shots don’t mix. The pool also had a secret it only revealed to us on the last day: it was the favourite haunt of every farm dog around.’

Cyrill Burren, Senior Fullstack Software Developer

A year later we went to Athens.

Written by Trevor Timmers COO / Senior Project Manager

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