Some of Elabor8’s founding visions were to be actively involved in the BA community, be thought leaders and actively work to professionalise Business Analysis. To this aim last year we began the process to get involved more heavily with the IIBA (International Institute for Business Analysis) in Australia. We are extremely proud to announce that two of our own have…
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Starting the year with some new Elabor8ers
What better way to start out the new year than to welcome new talent to the organisation. A big welcome to: Kyla Lloyd – Business Development Manager. Kyla joins us from a very successful role in recruitment specialising in Business Analysis recruitment and we are very excited to have her join our Business development team. Ian Ngo – Senior Consultant.…
Retrospectives: a fresh look
Retrospectives are fairly common among Agile teams, but it sometimes seems that every team uses the same format:
- What worked well?
- What didn’t work so well?
- What still puzzles me?
Throughout this blog I’d like to introduce you to some different Retrospective techniques.
Congratulations to Open Universities
We would like to take the opportunity to congratulate Open Universities on their win at the 2013 eLearning Excellence Awards. Open Universities won two awards in the Higher Education and the Community sector for the Open 2 Study platform which was released earlier in the year. We are proud of our consultants Cecilia Waters and James Pulling who who were…
Elabor8ers are a charitable bunch
We wanted to take a moment to thank our staff for all the Charity fundraising they have been doing over the last month. Last sunday the Elabor8 attempted the Eureka Skydeck Climb for the second year. The team (pictured below) were just 26 seconds off the top 10 and more importantly raised $500 for charity. From left: Matt Fitzsimons, James Pulling, Morgan Chandler, Andrew…
Elabor8 and Open Uni Present together at Agile BA Melbourne Meetup
We had a very successful evening at the Agile BA Meetup last night. Our consultants James and Cecilia presented together with Open Universities Product Owner Takis Diakoumis and Agile Lead Erik van Eekelen on Lessons Learnt on a Lean Startup Journey whilst developing the Open 2 Study platform. The presentation was attended by a large group (50+) of Agile BAs and followed by drinks.…
What is a Story Card workshop?
What is a Story Card workshop? Ryan takes us through this lesser known Agile ceremony to provide an understanding of how it works and the benefit.
Ryan also provides an overview of a technique that has proven to be effective which helps define the scope of user stories in an easy and clear manner.
Elabor8 Principals go SAFe
Elabor8 Principals Andrew Blain and Nam Huynh recently completed the SAFe Program Consultant course and after a nervous week of waiting for the outcome from their test their certification finally came through. The course and certification prepare them as Agile change agents to: Lead an enterprise agile transformation Implement the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) Train managers and executives in Leading SAFe and act…
Scaling Agile with SAFe (the Scaled Agile Framework)
Andrew Blain provides an overview of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Climbing Kilimanjaro
We would like to send our support to Elabor8er Alex McGarry who is joining the TelcoTogether Foundation team in climbing Kilimanjaro for charity.
Presenting at the next Agile BA Meetup
We are excited to be presenting at the next Agile BA Meet-up on November 12. We’d love to see you all there.
Techniques for keeping Workshops running on time
Keeping Workshops running on time can be challenging as there are many factors involved. Ryan discusses a couple of techniques that he recently used for a Project Inception Workshop to keep it on time.