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Tuesday…has always been one of our toughest days of the week. Monday we come back fresh, prepared for the week and start on those tasks. Tuesday, however is a day that we realise how huge a task we have in store to complete the next build for the board by Friday. Everyone is frantically trying to work their way through their list for the day. With the pressure of this become cracks within the team, as differing personalities each with their own agenda no longer have the patience to persevere the other. Because of this Wednesday started a little different instead of our usual dailies, we had the “We have a huge deadline ahead, keep out tasks relevant to the time frame allowed and lets work more closely together” type meeting. The building up of the teams being able to see their part contributing to reducing the pressure of others, gives them huge personal satisfaction. The benefit we have being in week 5, is we are starting to prepare for the end. The goal is in sight. We each have huge expectations of what we want to achieve out of this and giving our all is not flagging.

I spent much of the day talking to everyone in the team to see how they are going; not just their work flow but how they are handling the pressures of this week. While I may be a hard taskmaster, I really do care about each and everyone.

I have been really impressed with how the team has responded on Wednesday. This was probably one of my best days, watching them all start to work so well together. With the help on Pixel commandeering members of the team to become voice actors, saw yet again the fun of working with this team. Ian who wished to be strictly a ‘behind the scenes’ type of guy, did not feel he had what it took to fill the shoes of the voice of Chester Chestington, however through the encouragement of the team, who have voted him ‘the sexiest chin of all the team’ and the slight help of a bit of bad luck in an arm-wrestle, he decided as he was dragged into our makeshift sound booth, this would be a fantastic opportunity to unleash his hidden talent.

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