When forming your new Agile team, one of the many decisions to make is how to set up your Story Wall. You can try lots of variations – including different columns, techniques, and/or approaches. But how do you decide? Here are some ideas to get you started.
Elabor8 are proud sponsors of #Leadershiphacks supporting women In technology
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…
Retrospectives Strike Back! – The blogified version
Following on from a previous blog (Retrospectives: a fresh look) and my recent talk at LAST 2014 – Retrospectives Strike Back!, I thought I’d introduce you to some more new and different Retrospective formats.
Rich Pictures and CATWOE: Simple yet Powerful Scope-Modelling Techniques
Today I will be focusing on Rich Pictures and CATWOE, which are somewhat lesser known, yet simple techniques which can both add value to analysis activities. These techniques have their roots in Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), but I’ve found them to be quite useful as tools forming part of my analysis approach.
Agile Australia 2014: “Impact Mapping: Making an Impact over Shipping Software”
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.
Agile Australia 2014 wrap up: “It’s a Matter of Trust” – Glyn Thomas and Tim Hogan
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.
Proud to support the Charity Video project
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…
Great Day at LAST Conference 2014
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…
Yoga for Traditionalists: Stretch yourself into Agility
In this post Ian explores why traditional projects don’t adopt some of the agile techniques in order to improve the way projects are delivered, and what he would do differently since being exposed to the world of agile.
Agile Australia 2014 Wrap up: “You are your process” – Jim Benson
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.
Elabor8 – TelcoTogether – Charity Cynefin Project
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…
HDD: Driving Outcomes, not Output
Today I’m going to talk about the benefits and implementation of Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD). This topic errs slightly on the side of science, so let’s dust off our lab coats and get into it.