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Elabor8 is thrilled to be sponsoring this Thursdays ICTWomen – Leadership Hacks event. Leadership Hacks is a cross industry think tank event, designed to crowd source ideas to significantly increase the participation of women in senior technology roles. Since our inception in 2009 Elabor8 have been been committed to providing rewarding careers for women in technology. Information Technology has traditionally been a…

In this final instalment on Agile Australia 2014, I’d like to briefly introduce you to “Impact Mapping” – a great new tool I learned from Em Campbell-Pretty. I’ll start with a high-level understanding of this tool then give you some resources to find out more.

As a follow up to my previous micro-blog on Agile Australia 2014 (You are your Process – Jim Benson), I thought I’d share another valuable and enjoyable talk I attended on Day 2 of the conference. 

Late last year the team from UXMastery and Thirst Studios came to us with a proposal to sponsor the creation of a Charity Video which would use sketch-noting to tell the story of Ediz one of their their friends who had won his battle with cancer(Non-Hodgkin lymphoma). They were using the video to help support the teams fundraising efforts in…

We were very proud to be the Headline Sponsor at LASTConf (Lean Agile Systems Thinking Conference) and we had a great day meeting fellow practitioners and listening to local thought leaders inspire the local community. The Elabor8 crew were out in numbers with over 15 of the team there to attend.  We were also lucky enough to have two presenters at…

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…