5 Core Values for Rapid Growth

Empowering our team for rapid development that pays off.

Alison Major
3 min readJul 10, 2021
Photo by Phillip Glickman on Unsplash

I am responsible for the technical development and management of robotic process automations (RPA). Our team builds virtual, digital workers (also called “bots”) that help accomplish repetitive tasks so that the humans in our staff can focus on valuable work instead of swivel-chair clicks and copy-pastes.

Over the last year and a half, due to a global pandemic, my team has had to grow quickly and move fast. We’ve delivered automations at an average pace of nearly one bot a week, all while continuing to maintain responsive support and adding new features and enhancements as we go.

Before our rapid growth, our small team defined a set of core values that were important to us:

  1. High performance
  2. High quality
  3. Resilient digital workers
  4. Overall code quality & integrity
  5. Fast delivery

We then created a foundation for our team processes that promoted these values with every project we took on. As we added members to our crew, we stood firm on the foundation we built, lending to our ability to scale quickly without compromising our values.

1. High Performance

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Alison Major

[ ‘Software Engineer / Tech Lead’, ‘Tea Drinker’, ‘Longtime Remote Worker’, ‘Grad Student’, ‘Sailor’, ‘Fantasy & Adventure Enthusiast’, ‘Educator’, ‘Parent’ ]