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Agile Australia 2014 kicked off with a bang, with Jim Benson – author and expert on Kanban – challenging how we work in IT and on projects, particularly in the Agile world. Today I’d like to share with you what I learnt from Jim’s keynote presentation. 

We are excited to announce a collaboration between Elabor8 and the Melbourne Cynefin Meetup Group to kick-off a Cynefin project for the TelcoTogether Foundation. Elabor8 has been a proud supporter of the TelcoTogether foundation through their fundraising initiatives in the past year and we have been looking for ways to get further involved.  When the opportunity arose to get involved…

We are excited to announce that Denton Currin one of our Lead Agile Consultants has achieved the certification of SAFe Program Consultant. Denton is an experienced people leader, who has managed and coached high performing teams. He was one of our first consultants and has been consulting with Elabor8 for over 4 years as a specialist consultant in Digital and…

We are proud to announce that we have signed up as the Headline Sponsor for the LAST Conference this year. LAST: lean, agile and systems thinking conference An inspiration day for practitioners, by practitioners. Melbourne 2014 LAST is a great example of a grass-roots community driven conference. It is very affordable and the talks are of comparable quality to some of the…

After 4 years on Flinders St,  we’ve moved up to the corner of Queen and Bourke.  We’ve moved into a larger office which will better support our growth, is in a more central location and gives us access to one of the main cross-city tram lines. If you are in the area drop in and say hello, and if you…

We are very proud of Senior Agile Consultant Rupi Parmar who was part of the winning team at REA’s Hack Day that was held on Thursday and Friday of last week. The “Homebrew Oculus” team took out the first prize, for Technical Innovation. They built a home-made Oculus Rift using a 3D printed OpenDive frame (http://www.durovis.com/opendive.html), an android phone, and…

We are excited to announce that Jessica Doedee recently achieved the SPC (SAFe Program Consultant) certification. Jessica has more than 12 years’ experience in the IT industry, primarily in the online/digital spheres. She started her career in UX as an interface designer focusing on interaction design and information architecture. More recently she has moved into Business Analysis and Agile whilst…

On a beautiful autumn Sunday morning what seemed like all of Melbourne was out in the city streets running for the kids as part of the Good Friday Appeal. We are very proud of our team of Elabor8ers who managed to raise over $2000 to help fund equipment, research and education to support the work of The Royal Children’s Hospital.…

Elabor8 was once again delighted to co-sponsor this month’s Agile BA meet-up with Open Universities where Senior Consultant Ryan McKergow presented “How to jazz up your Retros”. In front of an audience of approximately fifty keen Agilists, Ryan described some issues with the traditional “:) 😐 :(“ retrospective and introduced the audience to several techniques that can be used at…

We’d like to “belatedly” congratulate our latest Certified Business Analyst Professional Vinh Pham. Vinh achieved his certification a few weeks ago, and joins a growing team of CBAPs at the company who get together in secret wearing their funky CBAP badges to talk secret CBAP matters. Well done Vinh.    

We are excited that we have a team 10-strong participating int the Run for the Kids fundraiser this year. The team is in the final stages of their preparations and now it’s our job to support them with some donations. Run for the Kids raises money for The Good Friday Appeal which is the public face of fundraising for Victoria’s Royal…