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As we return from the festive break, it’s been fantastic to reconnect with Fimatix clients, team members, associates and partners as we look to begin building on the successes of 2022.

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2022 has been an important year for growth at Fimatix.

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Over the past few years, the financial services sector has undergone a complex regulatory evolution. Even past the usual flow of regulation change and shifting reporting standards, there are two key trends we’ve identified at Fimatix that are driving this, and which put firms at risk of falling behind if not grappled with effectively. In…

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As a growing, agile organisation, Fimatix are investing in assets and solutions that will help our clients transform their business. In a few short months, we’ve taken our expert core private sector offering and expanded it to be an extensive, asset-backed service helping key players in the financial services sector, like L&G and Aon, to…

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For Fimatix 2022 has been a turbulent but highly productive year. Leaving the complications of Covid behind Fimatix has continued to experience strong growth resulting in a dramatic increase in size and capacity. Against this backdrop the CEO, Tim Howarth made the decision to pull the team together for a 2 day Team Building and…

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‘Declare “victory” and move on’ is a pragmatic way to frame the closing of a long running project where the vision/ambition was ground-breaking but with the passage of time it has become clear that the project has become bogged down, it will not deliver the vision and so people want as positive way as possible…

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The chancellor announced last week (Tuesday 7th January) that the changes to the off payroll tax (commonly known as IR35), extending the 2017 changes for the public sector to the private, will go ahead in April. The review that they announced at the same time which “will determine if any further steps can be taken…

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Recently, I’ve seen many developers moving to Business Analyst roles, just like I did. For many, it happens as part of an overall transformation of the role they’re working in. For example, a developer is sent to a client site and assigned to both tasks of gathering and development. So typically speaking, come the next…

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How many times have you received an URGENT email that requires you to complete a task before the end of the day? How many times have you spent significantly longer than expected trying to chase a response, only to have to chase and chase some more to get said task done? And how many times…

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Currently, there’s uncertainty about the future of the UK workforce. With Brexit on the horizon, concerns about the widening skills gap are becoming more pressing. Many industries have issues with skill gaps, but the gap in digital is profound. Our workforce already lacks digital professionals and graduates and the UK economy is increasingly tech-focused. Recruiting…

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Iteration-based delivery processes like Scrum usually deliver in two-week batches, but often our stories don’t fit this structure and we solve this by arbitrarily cutting up stories or stretching them across multiple iterations. As Scrum is probably the best known iteration-based process and I’ve seen it implemented in multiple teams, I’ll use it as an…

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At Fimatix, we help our clients deliver while constantly learning, adapting and having fun. From digitising public services on large government projects to making sure our clients are meeting the Digital Service Standard, user needs are taken into account from start to finish. An essential part of each and every project we work on is…

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