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Office Relocation 2025: Lisbon

From 30 August to 6 September 2025 the team worked from the Jupiter Lisboa Hotel. New this time were three morning workshops, and one of them served the ISO certification directly.

The team spread over and inside Lisbon’s giant yellow letters, the park, the city and the Tagus behind.

Lisbon was the fifth stop since 2021. There had been presentations and workshops in earlier years too. In 2025, for the first time, we set aside three mornings for workshops. As always we worked from 8:00 to 16:00, everyone had Friday off, and we make up the missing hours over the course of the year.

Workshops on ISO/IEC 27001, Linux and DevTools

ISO/IEC 27001 for everyone. Certification is planned for 2026. For it to work day to day, every person has to know what the information security management system requires of them: access, devices, handling client data, reporting channels. The morning turned a project of the project managers into a subject for the whole team.

Linux and Bash for development. Part of operations happens on the command line. Anyone who is confident there needs less help with incidents and makes fewer mistakes.

Chrome DevTools for everyone. Including project management and design. Anyone who can narrow down a bug in the browser themselves writes a better ticket.

‘The first step on a long and exciting journey.’

Adrian Arnold, Senior Project Manager

Lisbon after 16:00

Alfama and the Time Out Market on the first evening.

Five people sit at a wooden table in a market hall giving a thumbs up, the food stalls behind.
First evening at the Time Out Market.

A tuk-tuk tour through the hills, yoga in the morning for the early risers.

Six people sit facing each other on the benches of a white tuk-tuk, each with a can in hand.
By tuk-tuk through the hills of Lisbon.

Then an afternoon at the beach bar, a boat trip on the Tagus, and go-karting on Friday.

Straw parasols and white loungers on a sandy beach, several people from the team beneath them.
An afternoon at the beach bar.
View over the rooftops of Lisbon in the evening sun, the sky tinged pink.
End of the day above the rooftops of Lisbon.

What the week brought for the year

A week without on-site client meetings makes room for things that find none in the sprint. We redistributed the project workload for the second half of the year. And since Lisbon, ISO has been a subject everyone has a say in, not just those preparing the audit.

The week has its costs: travel, hotel, four shorter working days and a free Friday. We still consider it one of the better investments of the year. Nowhere else does the whole team sit in the same room for five days, and nowhere else do the conversations happen that find no room in the office between two meetings.

The tenth Relocation is already being planned. If you want to be there: careers.

Written by Trevor Timmers COO / Senior Project Manager

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