As we approach the first official delivery of the automated laboratory system on which I have been working on for the past couple of years with my colleagues I realized some important conclusions about working in a team. I realized now that all of us from my team have kind of grown together over the past couple of years. All those challenging situations, funny moments and hard work have brought us together without us even knowing. When I first started in this team, we were all quite different and initially kind of cold to each other. Especially my boss but I think that is expected since he is in a delicate position and so I understand him. But as we worked more and more together, we kind of slowly started opening up. I realized then that it's not enough just to be colleagues in order for a team to work. You actually need to see everyone as a bit of a friend. Why you ask me? Because only then you will feel free to collaborate with other people to work together on something. I no