This friday our whole division at work went on a scavenger hunt in downtown Seattle. There was seven ways to gather points; everything from a traditional gather all of the items on the list, to having to find a specific person in Seattle and say "I'm on the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Joe Friday team".
I spent most of the time with Petere Leonard, a PM from the Assistance Platform team. They are responsible for building all of the core infrastructure for in application help and online assistance across the company. When I first started my current job I worked almost full-time on a project to define the charter for and consolidate the AP team from across the company.
We made a pretty big strategic mistake early on, so we ended up coming around 9th I think. We decided to split up the team and then reassemble around half-way through at Pioneer Square. Unfortunately it was hard to reassemble and we ended up wasting at least half an hour. The actual event was only 2 hours, so that was a big issue.
In hindsight the obvious best strategy is to split up into one or two person teams, at the start have one person drive all of the teams around and drop them off near the clue locations (which were spread out all over downtown) and then have everyone meet back at the finish location.
It turns out our division did pretty well. I think the last place team had as many points as some first place teams, at least that's what the Task Master said. Our first place team beat the record number of points by about 100. I think they had around 280 and the old record was 251. My team ended up with 189.
You can see pictures
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