Summer Company Event 2025 / When Programmers Hit the Ranch

I consider company events to be an incredibly important part of corporate culture and team building. During the year, the team mostly works on their IT projects from home, at customer deployments and installations, in meetings, and through hundreds of hours spent programming and optimizing software solutions. A company event is the perfect place to come together and strengthen human relationships. Even though it might not seem obvious from the outside, programming information systems is more than just teamwork, and good relationships help in finding better and more efficient solutions—not only at the planning boards, but also in the actual world of programming.

This year, we didn’t let the summer pass unnoticed. We headed to Liptov for our summer company event at an amusement park. Some colleagues hadn’t seen each other for a year, while others were meeting for the very first time, since our development team is spread not only across the Czech Republic but also internationally.

This year, the company event was highly competitive. Teams were formed, team leaders were appointed, and tasks and challenges were tackled completely outside the IT context. Activities like these are a great way to see how people function within a team—who is a natural leader, who prefers to work in a team, who likes working independently, and who looks for ways to win with minimal effort.

I know a company event is primarily about relaxation and connecting people, but these kinds of activities also clearly reveal who can cooperate effectively and how individual colleagues operate. Of course, the main purpose of a company event isn’t to profile people, but subconsciously and naturally, synergies emerge that can be incredibly useful in software development.

Team leaders, project managers, tech leads, programmers, and even salespeople can immediately see how people work, where they will excel on a project, and which roles might not suit a particular team member. Please don’t misunderstand—company events are not about assessing people’s profiles—but this is definitely one of the factors that can tremendously help in managing projects and building teams for our clients.

Of course, my team, led by the CEO, won decisively. Naturally, the team led by our project manager also claims they won—completely convincingly, of course.

In reality, we all definitely won.
The atmosphere was so great that we actually forgot to announce the winners :)