| Understanding bias in artificial intelligence |
| Wednesday, February 19, 2020 |
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 Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to learn how to do things that people are good at. Humans are great at stringing together complex concepts and harnessing them towards a goal. With that in mind, we’re also moulded by our culture, upbringing, and history. This introduces bias in all humans...More... |
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| Google Hash Code and the Entelect Hubs |
| Monday, February 10, 2020 |
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 For the past few years, Entelect has supported and participated in Hash Code, Google’s annual coding competition. We set up hubs in our Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town offices, and we have Entelectuals participating in the competition every year. Hash Code is a fun challenge aimed at everyone that is 16 years and older, and is open to engineers at any skill level...More... |
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| Measurement quantifies your success |
| Tuesday, February 4, 2020 |
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Once an idea has made its journey into an implemented solution, it is necessary to make sure the original need has been met. Just because something is in production, it does not necessarily mean it is doing what it should be, and often it’s difficult to tell straight away.
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| Unlocking agile: The power of cross-functional teams |
| Thursday, January 30, 2020 |
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We’ve finally reached a post-waterfall world, where iterative problem-solving processes have all but eclipsed traditional models. Almost every tech business, IT department and start-up will tell you they are "wall-to-wall" agile, and have embraced Scrum, Kanban or one of the numerous scaled delivery frameworks. Even so, non-delivery is still common because we've not yet learned to consistently build and drive cross-functional teams.
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| Automation lets you move fast and learn fast |
| Wednesday, January 29, 2020 |
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 Developers are hired to solve business problems, but in the world of software development there often end up being many menial, repetitive tasks. There are multiple issues with developers performing these tasks manually...
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| When a stranger calls - The hidden generation of digital customers |
| Thursday, January 23, 2020 |
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 There’s a new generation of customers. Customers who are more informed, more experienced and more digital. And they’re not answering your calls anymore...More... |
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| Technology: Understanding the digital landscape |
| Tuesday, January 21, 2020 |
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 Software plays a role in almost every part of every business. Technical teams are responsible for understanding the digital landscape within the organisation and outside of it. This includes selecting the most sensible tools and frameworks to solve problems, and designing software using best practices to enable maintainable solutions that can evolve going forward...More... |
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| 7 business and technology trends to look out for in 2020 |
| Thursday, January 16, 2020 |
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 Over the past decade, buzzwords like “disruption” and “blockchain” were all the hype, along with some curiosity and confusion around the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The big question for businesses moving into 2020 is how to start leveraging these disruptive technology and business trends...More... |
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| 64 top graduates join Entelect in 2020 |
| Thursday, January 9, 2020 |
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 Each year, Entelect takes on some of South Africa’s brightest young university graduates, who join us with a mix of engineering, science and commerce degrees. These graduates participate in the intensive Entelect Graduate Programme for six weeks, aimed at accelerating their careers. This training programme is structured to prepare them for the diverse real-world technology delivery environments, and the critical thinking, teamwork and technical skills required to succeed...More... |
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| Quality and certainty rely on a process |
| Wednesday, January 8, 2020 |
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 Any engineering discipline requires a reliable process to produce solutions or products that bring value to an organisation. The chosen process should help teams to deliver a quality solution or product within a predictable timeline and at a sustainable pace. In software, this process is called the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which has process elements including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance. Various nuances of these process elements exist and are applied differently depending on the environment the team find themselves in...More... |
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