The Product Vision Canvas – a strategic tool in developing a successful business
Upon meeting entrepreneurs, I regularly find that the challenge of thinking of everything related to building a company creates a certain amount of anxiety. This anxiety can often be alleviated by clarifying things and making them more concrete and above all – visible. This is most easily achieved with a canvas of one sort […]
3 reasons why we follow an agile app development process
Creating an app or a mobile product requires the conceptualisation of design, ideas, and content writing robust code that will also be “easy enough” to work on, later – when the inevitable changes come. many hours of testing, tweaking and fine-tuning and making sure the client, team and internal stakeholders expectations all stay aligned regarding […]
We visit Brussels to speak at the Geo IoT conference
In June, my colleague Johan, and I traveled to Belgium to speak at the GeoIoT conference. As one of 70 speakers ranging from start-up to the industry giants, 16 thematic sessions were explored. Among the key trends: Indoor Location technologies nearing maturity, beacons market taking off, precision GNSS high potential, asset tracking unlimited opportunities, as […]
Software for Rent
In 2016, Polymorph launched a new commercial model for building apps. It’s a model with much less financial risk up front for our clients, where they don’t pay for the development of the app, but rather for the use of it. We build apps that add real business value, and therefore the client only starts paying […]
You can only manage what you can measure
Management expert Peter Drucker is often misquoted as having said: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” What he actually said was a little more nuanced: that measuring results and performance is crucial to an organization’s effectiveness. “Work implies not only that somebody is supposed to do the job, but also accountability, a […]
0 to MVP at Cape Town’s UX Conference
The third annual User Experience conference in Cape Town was held from the 7th to the 9th of November. I’ve attended every year and enjoyed the opportunity to exchange ideas and network with my peers. This is incredibly valuable: it can be hard to find time to engage in discussions outside of normal projects and […]
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 […]
