Want to get an insight into the daily life of a close-knit and enthusiastic team? Read our blog post about the Visual Labs ERP team! Find out how we spend our colourful and varied days, what we have in common at work and outside of work, and how we support each other in every situation. Keep scrolling to discover why our team is so special.

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The Visual Labs ERP team is a very cohesive, fun team. We implement, develop and support enterprise management systems. Fortunately, our work is extremely varied, no two days are the same. We talk to customers, answer questions, bug reports, develop solutions for new needs, develop and test. We assess our new customers' business processes online or in person, and train users in English or Hungarian.

Who are we?

Our team members come from all over the Danube region. We include recent graduates and people with 15 years of professional experience. Our clients prefer to call us programmers or developers, but the cold, IT-savvy, economist-functional consultant inside is what we call them.

Everyone in the team has their own specialisation and super skills. Someone can build a cool chatGPT of their own, others are experts in creating new ERP environments, but we also know which of our partners to ask when it comes to VAT or when the configuration needs a final thorough check.

We're proud to have three of our team in the parent camp.On office days we get together to be in at the same time. Then we sit in a pile near the team's own houseplant. It's hard to decide if it's the 'ERP palm' or the team growing faster.

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There's always a good atmosphere in the office and we laugh a lot together, whether it's at meetings, a cigarette break or swapping wallpapers. Several of the team are also hobby baristas who are always happy to make you a nice (or not so nice) cappuccino.

Regular meetings

We start the week with a WSM (weekly standup meeting), where after a quick debrief we present to the company the progress of our projects and the tasks and milestones for the week ahead. We also have a quarter-hour DSM (daily standup meeting) every morning, where we can ask each other for quick professional help, list our daily priorities, or volunteer for a task that has just fallen in that we don't have time for. Fortunately, we have a very good team spirit and proactively support each other to ensure a balanced distribution of tasks.

We end Friday afternoon with a one-hour sprint round meeting to discuss the week's events and lessons learned, review the progress of our projects, identify next steps and prepare for the WSM on Monday morning.

Once a month, we have the opportunity to attend a coaching session where we can talk through the issues that are bothering us and our current stuck points, whether they are work-related or personal.

The monthly team retro meeting is a completely offline session where we 'process' together what happened in the past month, looking at what went well and what went wrong. It's a great opportunity to give each other feedback and draw lessons on how we're doing in order to make the next time even smoother for working together and delivering projects.

In our bi-weekly knowledge sharing sessions, we try to share this kind of knowledge with other team members. Our most recent knowledge sharing sessions have included topics such as using ChatGPT and building your own GPT, new Microsoft ERP releases, but also working together on the ERP business aspects of the organisational level changes.

We also have weekly so-called customer status meetings with several of our customers. But sometimes, on a case-by-case basis, it is easier to discuss an announcement with a screen-share - we are available for that as well. During these calls, we can discuss support issues that have arisen in the past, new needs that have arisen and our proposed solutions to these. We have the same team of experts to guide our customers from the sales phase through implementation to operation. This ensures that, even during the operational phase, the customer's request for a solution is handled by an ERP expert who is fully familiar with both the customer and the solution delivered.

"Is everyone in this team a basketball player?"

It can be an odd sight when I and two of my 190cm tall "bodyguards" arrive at a new client's premises for a demo or consultation. We're not basketball players, but our average height is over 180 cm 😀 Several team members have a professional sporting background: we have handball players, footballers, canoeists, bowlers and marathon runners, but nowadays we mostly go to the gym. We try to make sport part of our week, alongside work. And on our team-building evenings, we test our skills in pub sports or poker, although unfortunately Dani is unbeatable at all of them.

Party planning committee

In addition to team events, we are also happy to take part in company events, even as organisers. Two members of the ERP team founded the Party Planning Committee, which for example organised a carnival party with a doughnut competition and a fun quiz. The winning chef in the cooking competition we organised was also from the ERP team (but there was no bunting). The rest of the team played beach volleyball while cooking.

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Summary

As we have seen, Visual Labs' ERP business is not only made up of experts who are at home in the world of ERP systems, but also a close-knit community where work is combined with shared experiences and personal development. We are proud that everyone contributes to the diversity and strength of our team, whether it's a deep knowledge of different disciplines, a background in sports or even the art of coffee making.

Your time here will not only give you an insight into the ins and outs of ERP systems, but will also be part of a supportive environment where team building and social experiences are paramount alongside professional growth. The Visual Labs ERP team is growing dynamically, as is our office's famous ERP palm tree - and both symbolize the continued development and growth of our community.

Thank you for joining us for this brief glimpse. We hope you found it inspiring to read about our team, and maybe one day you'll be a part of the Visual Labs community too!