We are delighted to announce the appointment of Sam Davis as the new Head of Academy at Elabor8. With her deep understanding of our academy, Sam’s innovative ideas and strategic mindset will undoubtedly transform the way Elabor8 integrates our training programs with the consulting division. For the past four years, Sam has progressed from a senior consultant to a lead…
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Unlocking Business Agility with SAFe 6.0
SAFe 6.0 is the latest release of the Scaled Agile Framework, featuring six themes that aim to revolutionise business agility. Strengthening foundations, empowering teams, accelerating value flow, enhancing business agility, building the future with AI, Big Data, and Cloud, and delivering better outcomes with OKRs.
Using Remote Agile Governance to Create the Culture Organisations Need
Discover how to implement remote agile governance to create a transparent, collaborative, and agile virtual work culture. Access to practical tips and tools for improving communication, productivity, and decision-making.
Group Coaching – Extending Growth Opportunity Beyond Individual Coaching
Group coaching fosters team growth by prioritising relationships among members. It differs from individual coaching and is gaining popularity for senior executive leadership teams. Learn about the benefits, skills, and challenges for coaches, and join us in extending growth opportunities from individuals to teams.
Measuring Predictability and Agility during PI Execution
If you want to reach higher levels of Agile maturity, it is important to identify and address the underlying issues that may be hindering your progress. Applying objective value-based metrics, Flow Load and Flow Predictability, enables continuous improvement every quarter. Using Flow Metrics across the organisation has become nearly synonymous with Agile Ways of Working and SAFe. Provided with good…
How to find your own unicorns (product people)
I recently wrote an article about why Product Management isn’t embraced everywhere1. In it, I referred to product people as ‘unicorn’ people. Advertising an internal vacancy for an experienced Unicorn might get a few curious looks from your employees, but it probably won’t draw out the candidates you’re searching for to drive your product management agenda. So how might you…
Encouraging a mindset for change: How to shift internal culture to make transformation a success
Most organisations acknowledge that change is a strategic imperative to stay ahead of new technological and economic developments. As businesses around the world have struggled to navigate pandemic-induced uncertainty and shifting consumer behaviour, it’s understandable why many have pursued organisational transformation in the hope that it’ll enable the business to operate at a higher level—to become more agile, productive, innovative and profitable.
Five tried and tested ways to build better products
If you work in or with a team or teams who build things, read on. In my experience as a product manager, consultant, and leader, these are five tried and tested tips for amplifying product management adoption. For those of you who read my previous blog and are wondering how to get product management into your organisation, consider the following “guerilla tactics” that might help lead the charge.
If Product Management is good for business, why isn’t it everywhere?
As a former product manager, management consultant, agilist, and self-confessed questioner of all things, I sometimes catch myself thinking about big, hairy questions scraped straight from the very bottom of the “too hard” basket. On sensible days, I catch these thoughts, acknowledge their existence, and move swiftly on to the next shiny thing in my vicinity. On less-than-sensible days, I latch onto them — give them attention, time, space, and explore them.
Work differently, start now
Elabor8 was honoured to host Dr. Stephen Mayner in this month’s webinar where he presented key industry insights for ‘Applying the SAFe Dual Operating System to Enable Agility in Government’. In this blog, we revisit some of the highlights. Today, let us revisit some of the highlights in this article.
Meet Craig Harvey
Craig started at Elabor8 as a Senior Consultant and moved into the new Head of Automation role in 2022. We’ve enjoyed watching Craig’s career progress over the years and it’s great to get some insight into what it’s like to work at Elabor8.
Be SAFe and Flow Metrics
Whether you are just emerging from traditional project methods, in the throes of an ongoing Scaled Agile Transformation, or just getting settled into your Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise Transformation, businesses, operations, and technology leaders need to be laser-focused on understanding how to measure predictability in terms of the flow of value through the system.