DUBLIN, Ireland / December // 3Q Solutions, a Dublin-based provider of financial planning and wealth management solutions recently spoke at the 4th Annual International XP (extreme programming) Day event in London.  The two-day event held on the 25th and 26th of November brought together industry speakers and experts to share their knowledge of Agile practices.

3Q presented two talks during the event.  Sean Coughlan and Team Leader, Steve Quinlan gave their insights into a process called minimum market feature set (MMFS).  Through a presentation titled: “Agile for Start-ups: Minimum Market Feature Set”.  The talk explained how MMFS allows the team to develop working software to get to the market quicker.  “MMFS is about developing a workable feature set that gives sales the confidence to demo and sell the product much faster than the typical process.  The process means the features that add the most business value are prioritised resulting in working software that is usable to the end user.  The presentation was welcomed by developers and many took ideas on board on how this practice can be implemented into their organisation”, commented Quinlan, Team Leader. 

Ray Gallagher and Sean O’Donnell explained some of the automation processes which they have implemented in their development of the financial planning tools.  On the second day, “Automation: Begrudge every Keystroke” reviewed a current hot topic within the industry.

“Automation is an Agile process where you identify bottlenecks and develop a process that will shortcut it.  What we presented showed the benefits that we have gained by using automation such as an increase in productivity by over 400%.  This is remarkable and hopefully our message was successfully relayed to the audience”, said O’Donnell, software developer with 3Q. 

XP Day brings together companies, academics, developers and managers from both the UK and Europe, who have implemented and are beginning to implement Agile into their software development.  The two days consisted of presentations, workshops, interest groups and panel discussions, and is one of the highlights of the Agile development community in the UK. 

Contact:

               3Q Software Solutions Ltd.

               Karen Whelton, +353 1 4100852

               kwhelton@3q-solutions.com

About 3Q Software Solutions Limited

Founded by a group of financial services industry professionals, and skilled technologists, 3Q Solutions' builds visionary wealth management products that generate new ways to maintain and increase financial service revenues from their high net worth and mass affluent customer bases. Based in London and Dublin, 3Q is privately funded and has a history of building proven solutions for the financial services industry. 

3Q’s breakthrough solutions supports close advisor and customer collaboration and communication through multiple channels.  Our solutions are born from a powerful and proven framework, that motivate financial decisions from high net worth and mass affluent clients by simplifying complex financial scenarios, creating context for financial decisions for end consumers and creating very usable and flexible tools for advisors. 

Understanding that wealth management is a journey, 3Q’s solutions are modular thus allowing financial services organisations to take a step-by-step journey to wealth management, ease integration and address their most pressing business needs first through wealth management services.

For more information please visit us at www.3q-solutions.com