Andrew Rees: Running a small but perfectly formed tech team

Managing a development team

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Andrew Rees shares some behind the scenes insight into running a financial services development team that involves both 'scrums' and 'sprints'...

Since joining The Verve Group ten months ago, we have begun growing a small in-house development team to manage and develop the existing Apricity and Para-Sols systems. We have been lucky to find some fantastic developers and have built a small but growing team who have come in and hit the ground running. Onboarding new developers has posed its own challenges during these strange times, with one lockdown after another, but in this day and age technology has enabled us to stay in close contact by sharing screens and even integrated development environments such as Visual Studio using Live...

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