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In June 2015, Brightstep was purchased by Accenture Interactive. This was a huge transformation, and I had just had an intervention after I resigned to join Klarna (yes, this is the second time I had a job offer from Klarna), but Mattias and some Brightsteppers convinced me not to leave. As a result, I had a very good position at Accenture and a clear path to starting up my own organization within Accenture if I wanted.
After some turbulent time trying to merge into the giant that Accenture is, the stress started to show, and the amazing Brightstep slowly crumbled into something I no longer felt comfortable working with. I took on larger projects with the H&M project to transition all their sub-brands to the Hybris platform, where I was the team lead for the front-end team. The lack of processes between the three different groups in the delivery led to me being forced to spend hundreds of unpaid hours setting ways of working for us.
The final straw for me came when I was in a several-hour-long call where managers were discussing promotions. The way this was handled did not sit well with me, and as one of my colleagues asked me to be a reference for a job at Claremont, I also ended up getting an offer, and it was an easy decision to leave.
In the aftermath, a lot of us from Brightstep found a new home with Claremont.
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I juni 2015 köptes Brightstep av Accenture Interactive. Detta innebar en enorm förändring, och jag hade precis haft en intervention efter att jag sagt upp mig för att börja på Klarna (ja, detta var andra gången jag fick ett jobberbjudande från Klarna), men Mattias och några Brightsteppers övertalade mig att stanna. Som resultat fick jag en mycket bra position på Accenture och en tydlig väg mot att starta upp min egen organisation inom Accenture om jag ville.
Efter en turbulent period där vi försökte integreras i den jättelika organisation som Accenture är började stressen göra sig påmind, och det fantastiska Brightstep förvandlades långsamt till något jag inte längre trivdes med. Jag tog på mig större projekt, bland annat H&M:s projekt för att migrera alla deras sub-varumärken till Hybris-plattformen, där jag var team lead för frontendteamet. Bristen på processer mellan de tre grupperna i leveransen gjorde att jag tvingades lägga hundratals obetalda timmar på att få våra arbetssätt på plats.
Den sista droppen kom under ett flera timmar långt samtal där chefer diskuterade befordringar. Sättet detta hanterades på kändes helt fel för mig, och när en av mina kollegor bad mig vara referens för ett jobb på Claremont slutade det med att även jag fick ett erbjudande — och beslutet att lämna blev enkelt.
Efteråt hittade många av oss från Brightstep ett nytt hem hos Claremont.
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- Industry: Food
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion
- Length: 12 months
Martin & Servera - Digital designer
Created a new visual design for the start page och the B2B Ecommerce solution based on business need and UX principles.
H&M- Team Lead & work process designer
I was the team lead for the front end development team doing the redesign of all H&M brands on the new Hybris platform. Working with H&M we needed to build a new way of working within Accenture as we had 3 companies that had never worked together before: Fjord, Brightstep and Accenture Italy. I built a completely new delivery workflow from design to frontend and then to backend in Jira and Confluence. In total I spent over 500 hours building and training the teams with great result. This was extra difficult due to the fact that we built design for 6 brands and one was under NDA and not open to Fjord for one of the projects. We also built a pattern library so we could work according to atomic design for both development and design. This was accompanied by a delivery pipeline to the backend team for a very smooth development process.
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Accenture Interactive in 2015–2016 was one of the world’s fastest‑growing digital agencies. It focused on helping companies transform their customer experience through a mix of creative design, digital marketing, analytics, and technology. During this period, it was recognized as a global leader, expanded through strategic acquisitions, and strengthened its capabilities in experience design through its design arm, Fjord.