2016 AWARD NOMINATION WINNERS ESCAPE 2016 BBD GRADS TRAVEL TO INDIA ANGULAR VS REACT BANKING FOR KIDS BBD’S OWN SPEAKS AT JAVAONE YEAR END FUNCTION CONTENTS ANGULAR VS REACT 46 A war in single page application frameworks MEET THE TEAMS 48 06 NOTE FROM THE ED Get to know some of BBD’S awesome teams A message from the team that brings the BBD Bulletin to you JAVA ONE 58 08 INFORMATION STATION We present at Oracle Internal save the dates, holidays, email distribution and email aliases BANKING FOR KIDS 60 10 PEANUT GALLERY A new banking app for the education of children Insight into organized teams STAYING ON TRACK 62 14 AWARD NOMINATION 2017 Completing the 947 challenge again! Giving recognition for exceptional solution & service delivery THE BBD STINGERS 68 20 THE YEAR END FUNCTION BBD’s football team kicks off to the Premier Division Memories from BBD unplugged party COCOA VS VANILLA 70 28 BANKING VERTICAL Facts about the age old debate BBD provides expertise into the South African Banking sector VINEYARD VAAI’ING 74 30 ESC@PE 2016 MSDF indulges in the wineyards of Beyerskloof BBD’s very own technology conference r THE 5:2 DIET 78 36 BBD GRADS TRAVEL TO INDIA The best way to get skinny, fast! Discover India through the eyes of BBD’s graduates A DAY IN THE LIFE 82 44 HIMALAYAN ADVENTURES Get to know some of your fellow colleagues Donald explores the highest motorable road in the world CHEF SEAN 90 A tear out recipe for a delicious pork roast COCKY CORNER 94 All about fun, games and competitions… win super cool prizes! ANGULAR VS REACT 46 A war in single page application frameworks MEET THE TEAMS 48 06 NOTE FROM THE ED Get to know some of BBD’S awesome teams A message from the team that brings the BBD Bulletin to you JAVA ONE 58 08 INFORMATION STATION We present at Oracle Internal save the dates, holidays, email distribution and email aliases BANKING FOR KIDS 60 10 PEANUT GALLERY A new banking app for the education of children Insight into organized teams STAYING ON TRACK 62 14 AWARD NOMINATION 2017 Completing the 947 challenge again! Giving recognition for exceptional solution & service delivery THE BBD STINGERS 68 20 THE YEAR END FUNCTION BBD’s football team kicks off to the Premier Division Memories from BBD unplugged party COCOA VS VANILLA 70 28 BANKING VERTICAL Facts about the age old debate BBD provides expertise into the South African Banking sector VINEYARD VAAI’ING 74 30 ESC@PE 2016 MSDF indulges in the wineyards of Beyerskloof BBD’s very own technology conference r THE 5:2 DIET 78 36 BBD GRADS TRAVEL TO INDIA The best way to get skinny, fast! Discover India through the eyes of BBD’s graduates A DAY IN THE LIFE 82 44 HIMALAYAN ADVENTURES Get to know some of your fellow colleagues Donald explores the highest motorable road in the world CHEF SEAN 90 A tear out recipe for a delicious pork roast COCKY CORNER 94 All about fun, games and competitions… win super cool prizes! NOT E 6 NOT E I’ve recently joined the life of motherhood and as most parents understand, this keeps me very busy and up most nights. This got me thinking about family – the good, the bad and the ugly. Family is integral and for me, being part of the BBD family for the past 15 years has been just as crucial. Working with people you become like a family because you are together every day. We all encourage, motivate and help each other, but we also become close and learn to have fun together as a team. Many of us work very long hours and truly get to know the personalities of our sibling colleagues, their ups and downs, the daily intrigue of office life – the drama, the laughs, the cups of tea, carbophobia and don’t forget the chips! Being a part of the comms team, we play a significant role in keeping BBD close knit and connected. We created the BBD Family wall to inspire a family presence at work and I know I nag and nag many of you for articles for our magazine but we really do need all the latest information, events and news that we can share with our colleagues, clients, prospective employees and new clients – helping to keep us an intimate and tight knit family. But hey, can you blame me – I’m a Jewish kog and I love to find out anything anyone has to tell me. So come on, don’t make me beg - send us ANYTHING that we can share with our family to [email protected]. As we are approach holiday time / silly season, please remember to buckle up and be safe. 7 10 The Peanut Gallery INDIVIDUAL SKILL COMBINED INTO SELF ORGANISED TEAMS IS UNBEATABLE! t’s great to get a platform like this to wax lyrical on in the market. Your skill, attitude and the access to I some particular subject or issue that is currently some of the best minds in the industry to learn from top of mind in the space we play. This time there and debate with are not the norm. Further, DO NOT will be no sport, no politics and yup, sorry guys underestimate the way that BBD constitutes and and girls, no sex, so feel free to move swiftly to the dissolves teams for various requirements across next page or….keep reading. the business. Experience is combined with energy, business insight with technical expertise, work with In the course of sales and meeting potential new cli- play, and all with a focus on delivering a solution of ent the business is often being exposed to projects value. No process, method, technology, package where poorly experienced, poorly guided and in- or stupid amount of money will beat a highly motivat- correctly assigned skills driving ahead in the wrong ed and skilled team in taking a software solution live, direction and doing the wrong thing, result in failing BBD’s past has demonstrated this again and again. projects. There is definitely a lack of understanding in many of these potential new clients of the com- So with a high level of professionalism, engage with plexity involved, even in what they see as “simple” your team and client where you believe things can software projects and most do not have the ability or be improved or simplified and if in doubt bring your bravery to question why many months into a project concerns back into the business to clarify how to they are still not seeing ANY value or real business make an approach that will result in the best out- functionality. In many cases the vendors providing come. You have a duty to yourself, to the client and services don’t even have sight of how deep a hole to BBD to ensure that your skills and ability are put they are in and don’t bring emergency measures in to the best use so push back against short-cuts and to bring things back into line. BBD has seen this drive for quality delivery. We are not arrogant, but many times over the years and the number of pro- absolutely confident that the people in BBD continue jects our people have saved has been a key aspect to be part of an elite cross section of our industry, of our growth. don’t forget it. Gus Pringle This brings me to the point; as a BBD person read- ing this, DO NOT underestimate YOUR skill and abil- ities relative to what many of us are exposed to out CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 11 2016 AWARD J WINNERS U N PIETER LE ROUX PRASAD BHOGI B J E U F L THABANG LEDWABA JEAN MOUTON JAMES VODDEN LUKE BOWES R A A U M G JACO BOTHA JONATHAN JONES NOSIPHO RAKOMA VUTLHARI RIKHOTSO R S P E A P LOUIS TERBLANCHE LESEDI MASEMOLA MANUS DU PLESSIS GRACE GARLAPATI Y O A C M T GODISANG MFELANG IVAN LAZAROV VICTOR GROBLER STEFAN JANKOWITZ 12 2016 AWARD J WINNERS U N PIETER LE ROUX PRASAD BHOGI B J E U F L THABANG LEDWABA JEAN MOUTON JAMES VODDEN LUKE BOWES R A A U M G JACO BOTHA JONATHAN JONES NOSIPHO RAKOMA VUTLHARI RIKHOTSO R S P E A P LOUIS TERBLANCHE LESEDI MASEMOLA MANUS DU PLESSIS GRACE GARLAPATI Y O A C M T GODISANG MFELANG IVAN LAZAROV VICTOR GROBLER STEFAN JANKOWITZ 13 The Award Nominations give recognition for exceptional solution and service delivery. They recognise the excellence within the company by rewarding BBD staff members who go beyond the call of duty for our clients and colleagues. Those who are “doing what it takes” so to speak BBD AGENT ULTIMATE Out with the old in with the The 2017 Award new! As the new year Nominations will accept approaches we move onto a nominations for anybody in new chapter and with that any category.There will be 2 new opportunities to be on winners selected every top of your game. month! The nominations will Introducing the new run from February through to characters for 2017.Which October. The grand prize THE SILENT OPERATOR one will you be?! winners will be announced at the end of the year. GRASPS & OPPORTUNITIES WISDOM In 2017 we’ll be switching it up! The Award winners will now have the oppourtunity to “PICK A PRIZE” from a CHOICE range of prizes. In addition to this, winners will be given a selection of charities from which they can choose one and BBD will donate IT TAKES WHATEVER R1000 on their behalf! YOUR PEOPLE HELPING 14