In our [design system] team, we struggled to understand what should be our main focus
for the next year. An extra challenge is that such an understanding should be mutual.
It is especially hard to gain when working remotely. Since March 2020, most companies have sucessfully put the already set processes to the remote rails. However, it is not always
the case when it comes to creating something new. Despite the brainstorming sessions
with interactive boards, we still act more as individuals sitting in our living rooms and basements. This is something compeletely different from the situation when the whole team
was in the same room, when we had coffee breaks, lunches and afterworks, when we were in
constant communication and each team member at least partly understood the viewpoint of
the others. The new reality requires specific actions to substitude the natural process
of getting each other. In this post, I share simple exercises we conducted with the team
that helped us on the way to shared project vision.