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Dealing with Decision Fatigue as a Startup Founder - The Infinite List

Starting a business comes with obvious hard things like hiring and long hours. How does one deal with the less obvious ones like anxiety and decision fatigue?

by Larissa Pienaar

Topic: tech career insights

Undercover UX: Creating a User Research Culture From Scratch

Regular user testing is essential to any product development, but can be hard to incorporate into the development process. Here's how I started from scratch.

by Cara Winterbottom

Topic: tech career insights

How I Get the Most Out of Hackathons

Hackathons are great opportunities for learning and growth. To tap into this, you need to consider things carefully. Here are my strategies.

by Jo Pearl

Topic: tech career insights

What I Learned From Interviewing For A New Job

Getting rejected is an inevitable part of job hunting, but it turned out to be much harder than I expected. Here's how I learnt to deal with it.

by Petrus Kruger

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Common Problems During Scrum Adoption And How to Overcome Them

There are still many problems and failures during the adoption and implementation of Scrum. I will discuss how to identify and categorise these problems.

by Ridewaan Hanslo

Topic: tech career insights

Reflections of a Former Developer Trying Hard Not to Be Called a Manager

It’s nothing new for a techie to move into a leadership role. Here are some of the challenges I faced, and how I changed my thinking and behaviour.

by Neil MacKellar

Topic: tech career insights

My Strategy to Beat Procrastination

Procrastination can be quite a big problem for software developers facing difficult or new tasks. Here are the techniques that helped me overcome it.

by Johan Heymans

Topic: tech career insights

How I Got Started With XAML And WPF As A Front-End Developer

As a front-end developer used to HTML, CSS and JS, redesigning a Windows app was out of my comfort zone. I opted to learn XAML and WPF. Here's why β€” and how I got started.

by Louw Hyman

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How I Got Started With UX Design [Q&A]

It's sometimes hard for new UX designers to figure out how to get started. We asked Nicole Bergstedt from the Thomson Reuters Innovation Lab how she moved into UX and what she's learned so far.

by Nicole Bergstedt

Topic: tech career insights

How I Got Started With Data Visualisation [Q&A]

We humans aren't wired to draw useful conclusions from complex data. Data visualisation helps us get around the problem. Shiraaz Mollatjie, an avid data visualisation enthusiast, shares how he got started with this.

by Shiraaz Moollatjie

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