| Creating a vision |
| Thursday, December 5, 2019 |
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 It all starts with a vision. Often business-as-usual includes putting out fires, making sure the small things are happening, and meeting short-term targets. For an organisation to truly be disruptive, it needs an overarching vision of where it wants to be – no matter how ambitious it might be. Without an ambitious vision, organisations tend to wither away over time. Let’s explore the facets that can guide defining a vision...More... |
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| The future of the STEM workforce |
| Thursday, December 5, 2019 |
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 Many companies in the STEM environment, both across Africa and globally, have come to the realisation that striving towards a gender-balanced workforce is an inevitable goal for the future. And although this is what we are aiming towards, there is no simple solution or silver bullet to achieve this...More... |
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| Sizing up UX: Motivating for UX budget and scoping design time effectively |
| Friday, November 22, 2019 |
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 Sizing for user experience (UX) is a complex topic and poses challenges to business development and delivery management teams, as well as UX engineers (UXEs) themselves. We’ll look at some of those challenges, as well as methods to overcome them and scope projects effectively.
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| Stop sabotaging your technology projects: How to communicate requirements effectively |
| Tuesday, November 12, 2019 |
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 Technology teams, departments and industry still hold a reputation for failed projects, where customers and product owners spend too much for too little, or where results pale in comparison to expectations held. We hear about these unmet expectations all the time, followed by budgets blown on project extensions and scope changes. We also hear about customers who “don’t know what they want”, or who “keep changing their minds”. Sound familiar?...More... |
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| From Here to There: A guide to creating disruptive software |
| Thursday, November 7, 2019 |
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 Technology has the ability to unlock hidden potential within businesses and present new offerings. Learn about the journey of creating disruptive software solutions in enterprise…
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| Creating a community of collaboration and coding |
| Wednesday, November 6, 2019 |
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 President Barack Obama asked in his State of the Union address that “we live in a time of extraordinary change, change that’s affecting the way we live and the way we work. New technology replaces any job where work can be automated. Workers need more skills to get ahead. These changes aren’t new, and they’re only going to accelerate. So, the question we have to ask ourselves is, ‘How can we make sure everyone has a fair shot at success in this new economy?’”
The answer is coding and computer science education.
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| DevDay 2019 – hosted in two cities twice a year! |
| Thursday, October 31, 2019 |
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 DevDay is an in-house technology conference organised, presented and attended by Entelect’s own people where the technologist, inventor, hobbyist, engineer or artist in you can come to the fore. The event is part showcase, part science show, part geek club, part makers club; offering a range of lightning talks on cutting-edge technologies, as well as a variety of interactive exhibition stands where people can discover the latest creative innovations in technology...More... |
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| Why Design Sprints fail |
| Friday, October 25, 2019 |
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 Developed by Google Ventures, a Design Sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers or stakeholders. While Design Sprints are great for validating ideas and solving big challenges, they don’t always work. Getting people to clear their schedules for a week is already challenging, even more so when that week results in wasted efforts...More... |
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| How to create the right DevOps culture in your organisation |
| Tuesday, October 22, 2019 |
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 DevOps is a cultural shift. It’s not a matter of simply adopting agile planning or continuous delivery, although those practices are certainly important. Creating a DevOps culture in your organisation is about having shared understanding, communication and collaboration between software engineers and operations, and sharing responsibility for the software they build.
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| The data science behind UX |
| Friday, October 4, 2019 |
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 With the technological advancement in the 21st century, everybody wants to experience the best technology with the least amount of effort. By now, user experience (UX) design is recognised as a crucial part of customer satisfaction, but without the relevant data to validate the designs, we’re relying too much on intuition...More... |
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