Avesta's Guiding Principles & Values

The following principles and values shall guide us in everything we do: crafting our strategy, onboarding a new team member, or while defining our markets.

We shall strive to abide by them at all times.

Guiding Principles.

We succeed only when our customers do.

• We are committed to the growth and success of our customers. We succeed when our customers do.
• Therefore, we continuously strive to understand and anticipate our customer's needs, wants, expectations, and values and align our efforts and resources to fulfill them.
• We treat our customers with utmost concern, respect, and caring attitude and provide them with guidance and solutions, which are in their best interest.

People are our core competency.

• We are a collective, united by a common purpose and shared values; we shall collectively pursue our goals and objectives.
• We nurture a culture of trust, empathy, and ownership and empower our people with knowledge, faith, and freedom to drive outcomes.
• People are our core competency, and we always put our people first. Our company exists because of its people and not the other way round.

Learning & Innovation never stops.

• We are a learning organization, and learning is a continuous process. We gain a deep understanding and professionally master technologies and processes we work with.
• We share knowledge with others, groom and mentor them. The more knowledge we share, the more shall we gain.
• We continuously find and adopt better technologies, tools, and processes to improve our product quality and operational processes.

Cloud, Agile & Opensource are the basis of our existence.

• We foster an agile culture and follow agile practices to build highly efficient independent cross-functional teams capable of doing more with less.
• We use extreme programming techniques and practice test-driven development and refactoring to increase product development velocity and build reliable and easy-to-change systems.
• We use cloud-native architecture to design a product architecture and deploy them on cloud-native platforms using DevOps tools and techniques.
• We promote design thinking to design more human, intuitive, and predictable products.

Values

Responsibility

• We are aware that our work has a profound social and commercial impact on the company, clients, and society. Therefore we shall always approach our work with utmost concern, sincerity, thoughtfulness, and professionalism.

Trust

• We operate on the premise that each and everyone on the team is responsible and wholly dedicated to the company's growth and is competent to deliver results.
• We do not have a "command control" environment and empower our team members with faith and freedom to learn, experiment, and excel.

Empowerment

• We believe that every individual has a unique talent, when nurtured, can produce extraordinary results.

Teamwork

• It's not about getting my job done; it's about getting the job done. Success or failure is everyone's combined responsibility.

Honesty

• We shall always be guided by truth and convey it to others in a straightforward language.

Openness

• We shall have strong opinions, but we shall always be open to listening to others and willing to change.

Passion

• Everything we do, we do from our hearts, or we don't do it at all.

Commitment

• We shall only commit what we can achieve and achieve what we commit.

Practical

• We will always use knowledge wisely to implement what works (in production).

Positive

• Every challenge brings in a new opportunity; as software professionals, we will always have to deal with ambiguity; remaining positive while dealing with technology and people goes a long way in solving small and big challenges.

Patience

• We don't jump on to conclusions, or conclusions may jump on us. We shall always take time to think things through and be tolerant and persistent when we act.

Self Discipline

• Our work environment provides freedom; however, with great freedom comes greater responsibility.

Self Initiative

• We shall always be proactive and use our own resources to accomplish our objectives.

Communication

• Communication means actually listening, understanding, and empathizing with all our stakeholders.

Zero Politics

• We have zero-tolerance for politics; we shall be transparent, straightforward, and truthful with all our stakeholders under all circumstances.

Humble & Helpful

• We shall always be open to admitting our faults, willing to fix problems that are not our own, and always be courteous.

Value Time

• We shall not waste our own or other person's time. Time and Tide does not wait for anybody.

Perfection

• We shall have a best-or-nothing approach towards everything we do. Measure twice and cut once.

Quality

• Quality is every team member's responsibility; each individual is solely responsible for qualitative work and ensures that each piece of code written is entirely defect-free.