As we begin a new financial year, BlueOptima looks very different to this time a year ago, with significantly more clients and a larger staff to serve them. Year-on-year, BlueOptima’s revenue has grown by 400%; an outstanding result, especially as this high growth was cash-flow-positive and profitable. This shows BlueOptima delivers compelling ROI for our clients.   As we work...
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Amidst complexity and competition, banks face more challenges than ever before.   Global Economy   In 2016, growth is projected to be higher than last year for advanced economies and decline for developing economies. Challenges for emerging markets come from declining commodity prices, depreciating emerging market currencies and increasing financial market...
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Are we moving towards equal gender opportunity in 2016? Research shows a correlation between rejected contributions to open source software projects and those contributions being known to have come from women.   The data - from GitHub and other open source platforms - shows that this isn’t due to women offering lower standard contributions; rather the code is of higher standard -...
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Given the vast sums organisations invest in software development, transparent insight into the effort that developers put into producing releases is a profound breakthrough.   Before BlueOptima, no reliable metrics were available for assessing work invested in software projects, estimating amounts of work required, or understanding cost-efficiency or production speed of various...
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BlueOptima Executive Breakfast, New York City, 13th October 2015   Having attracted growing interest from US Enterprises, it was a great pleasure to host our first New York event and meet contacts face-to-face. This Executive Breakfast focused on Capital Markets and served as an insightful forum to share observations about software development productivity between...
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