Essential Brightec
Brightec has evolved, changed, adapted, shrunk, adjusted, grown and prospered as a business, and a team, since its founding days in a garden shed.
Our company culture has been recognised for numerous awards, along with our work. These blogs look at the bare basics of Brightec; not just who we are, but how and why we do the work we do.
How to create company values that are useful
In the last five years, we’ve doubled the size of our team. It would therefore be a mistake to think our values don’t need to grow with us. This is how we came to our latest iteration of the Brightec DNA.
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Our values are the basis for how we conduct ourselves, make decisions and grow as a team.
How we rebuilt our company strategy
This is an honest recount of how we were forced to prove we could be a financially stable company, with an outstanding work culture.
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When tough times hit your business, how do you bounce back?
How Brightec actually invest in culture
How investing in our team encourages them to feel invested in our company
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Answering the question of how we "actually" do culture is critical to our growth.
Setting context for productive meetings
Why a meeting policy doesn’t work for us, but we do have guidelines to help ensure our team have time to produce quality work and space to create meaningful working relationships
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Work meetings can easily be seen as a necessary evil, something as an individual you have to endure whilst as an organisation you have to initiate.
Encouragement changes everything
Open and honest feedback helps us to get the best out of each of our team, and encouragement plays a huge role in creating a culture that enables this honesty
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How we learnt to praise each other honestly and openly to get the most out of our team.
Responsible teams
We believe that encouraging our staff to take responsibility is a huge key to building truly great companies
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Every company needs its own B.O.B
Our mate Bob, (Brightec Overview Board) knows who is working on what each week and encourages conversations which increase knowledge sharing across the team and all of our projects
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How we keep clients happy and returning
Our clients know their project is more than a source of income; we really care about the work they’ve asked us to carry out and want it to be the best it can be. Our approach ensures we have ongoing work and a deep understanding of our clients and their customers
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Why monitoring billable time is so important
We’ve found that being open with the conversation and transparent with the results has meant that we have a more engaged and understanding team.
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Why we strongly think your agency should monitor billable time
Why blog?
Here’s four reasons why we chose to invest our time on writing regular blog posts
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Why do we charge for bug fixing?
This blog explains why faultless code is a proverbial unicorn, thus bug fixing is an integral part of the development process
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