# FINN's Technical Leadership Field Trip on Quality, Team Building, and Open Space Sessions

DevFeed: [FINN's Technical Leadership Field Trip on Quality, Team Building, and Open Space Sessions](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/getting-geeky-in-h-nefoss-31947.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.finn.no2011/03/03/geting-geeky-in-hc3b8nefoss/>)

Author: espen

Published: 2011-03-03T09:35:37Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Finn.no](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/finn-no.md>)

Topics: [sessions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sessions.md>), [spaces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spaces.md>), [Users](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/users.md>)

Tags: [mental-health](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mental-health.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [quality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/quality.md>), [team-building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team-building.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>)

## AI overview

FINN describes a two-day field trip for Technical Leaders focused on technical excellence, defining quality expectations, team-building exercises, and company open space sessions. The group drafted a checklist for releases and reflected on the different dynamics of internal open space sessions.

## Source excerpt

FINN recently created a position called Technical Leader which is going to be our champions of technical excellence. One of the objects for this two-day field trip was to get everyone in the same room and share ideas and challenges from a technological point of view. Quality does not cost ... it pays Most companies talk about how they work hard to "produce quality", but most companies also fail to follow through and make quality a focus for the entire organization. Our first session was about defining what quality means for different stakeholders such as: end users, our CEO, operations and product owners. These discussions lead us to a first draft of a checklist which will be used before each new release. No known bugs Tested in every environment Customer support is informed of important changes Walk'n talk for good mental health The term walk and talk is both a technique for making movies, but it is also a therapeutical technique. At FINN we practice this by randomly pairing two people who both have prepared a challenge they have in their daily work and then they walk and talk for about an hour. This was the first time this group did this exercise and it was a huge success. It was great to get out and talk about stuff to someone you do not get to talk to very often during the work day. As a team building exercise I think this is a great tool which is highly recommended! The challenge of company Open Space sessions During day two we had three open space sessions which was buzzing with excitement. Doing open spaces at conferences it is really inspiring and you learn stuff which you can bring back to your organization. Having open space sessions for just company employees has a different dynamic and can really be something to get your spirits down. When you do this inside a company you build up excitement during the sessions and along with the excitement comes expectations that "somebody needs to make this happen". There is nothing in "open space theory" about how you c