A recruitment drive is a great sign of growth. But the potential pitfalls, risks and high costs of hiring represent a loss to balance with the talent gain. The costs of new recruits chiefly fall into the below areas. Shortlisting candidates to interview Recruitment agencies offer a useful option where HR resources are limited, delivering candidates ready for interview....
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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) – defined simply as “what happens when a software engineer is tasked with what used to be called operations” – sounds like a natural advancement of DevOps; blending software development operations with the broader operations of an organisation. Since Ben Treynor established this definition at Google in 2003, SRE has been on the rise, embraced by industry...
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As UK companies turn gender pay data to headline news in the run up to the April 4th reporting deadline, the high level message stresses just how far there is to go towards salary equality: 76% of UK organisations report men's median pay to be higher than female counterparts. 1 Globally, the picture is no brighter, with women paid an average $12,000, compared with...
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DevSecOps, put simply, is the emphasis of security in the operations surrounding the development and deployment of software which is otherwise known as DevOps. Is it necessary to propagate yet another portmanteau buzzword? While DevSecOps has been an important part of DevOps best practice before the term existed, it serves to draw attention to important considerations. BlueOptima supports...
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How BlueOptima CEO, Jason R. Rolles, foresees the year ahead: In 2018, across many industries, the companies that maintain a competitive lead will be those that succeed in their software development initiatives. This means that they need to build and maintain the best possible software engineering talent and accurately monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of their software...
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