SA’s first Free Innovation movement aims to solve Stellenbosch traffic congestion
As South Africa celebrated National Transport Month throughout October, a community of innovators, technologists and free thinkers came together to help solve one of Stellenbosch – and South Africa’s – most pervasive problems: traffic congestion. Free Innovation is a community of innovators based in Stellenbosch consisting of designers, developers, technologists, engineers and free thinkers with the […]
Makerdays September 2016
A few weeks ago I joined my Polymorph colleagues for our regularly irregular, all-hands Makerdays — two days of fun, hacking, sharing, learning. It’s certainly irregular that I am able to attend: I am one of the more remote workers (though far from the most distant from the company’s Stellenbosch office) but it was travel […]
Gesture controlled Tetris for Android: A Makerday project
I was looking for a Makerday project that would be both easy enough to be completed to a reasonable level in two days, as well as something that I would find interesting. I have always had a bit of a fascination with Tetris – my first attempt at coding it had been in Delphi a […]
Building Soaring Coach: a Makerday project
Soaring Coach is a piece of software I’m developing during Makerdays (our quarterly innovation time) at Polymorph. It aims to help newer pilots develop the skill and confidence to go flying cross-country more often. What is Soaring? Soaring is the skill of staying aloft in an un-powered aircraft (often called a “glider”). Before you get […]
Applying Agile remotely
Our enthusiastic team of Agile managers are out to debunk the myth of the god-like powers of post-it notes and index cards. In preparation for submitting a talk for the annual Scrum Gathering in South Africa in November, they are talking at two SUGSA meetups, the first happening in Cape Town on 4 August followed […]
Introducing #morphbites
The idea is to share short sound bites about all the interesting happenings in the dev, design and process world that we function in. Individuals grab one of our Slack channels and give a 5 minute run down of 2 or more highlights from that channel. We find these rapid info-sharing sessions a great way […]
Mastering Teams & Debugging Team Toxins
In his book “Drive”, Dan Pink suggests that Mastery is one of the three elements — along with Autonomy and Purpose — that compels us to do what we do. Mastery allows us to move from simply complying to a set of “rules” and “musts” to engaging in the functions that comprise our vocation. “The […]
Unlikely Heroes – Imagine
Scrum Gathering 2015 – South Africa Unlikely Heroes – Imagine ← You are Here Unlikely Heroes – Empower Unlikely Heroes – Mastery As with the other two streams, there are 7 talk slots to write about, how do I even begin?! The solution of course, is to be picky. So I’ll start with […]
UX growing tall in South Africa
“A meaningful experience, if done well, will become a shareable experience.” Polymorph got the opportunity to take a peek inside the rapidly growing User Experience Industry and Community in South Africa. Six Polymorph employees attended the second annual UX Conference at the Waterfront in Cape Town last month. We heard from a number of fantastic […]
Polymorph Family Day 2015
What has three legs, a thick skin and the ability to feed the hungriest of Polymorphers? The answer is a Potjie. Six of them, in fact. On Saturday 28 November we had our annual family day, and this year we decided to make it a bit of a competition. We set out to find the […]
