I was reading about the Daily 5 Minutes (D5M) on Talking Story with Rosa Say blog and immediately something crossed my mind.

Why don’t we as individual contributors, people that work in the same domain (in my case software testing), on the same position or level in an organization don’t make this a common thing, a daily must-have task? I think that if we could surpass the “ego-centric” barriers and stop seing this as a threat we could learn a lot from what, how and why others are doing around us.

Not only that it would help us to better communicate with our colleagues but it would also help us build a stronger connection between we and them, a connection based or mutual respect and trust. Just think about all the information we could gain from one another (from our testing matees or colleagues you named it) if we would spend 5 minutes each day from our time to ask one of our colleagues what was the last thing they tested and what did they found and how did they found it. By doing this we could obtain insights in how others see and understand a product or a small feature or even an entire system and adding them to our present set of skills /insights can help us uncover hidden parts of your imagination.

I definitely must add this to my personal TODO list and give it a shot, who knows what it may uncover.