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Atlassian Specialized Partner in Enterprise Strategy & Planning

Cprime Elabor8 becomes an official Atlassian Specialized Partner in Enterprise Strategy & Planning APAC. We help organisations enhance their operational strategies, decision-making and deliver value.

Cprime Elabor8 strengthens commitment to Change Management with a dedicated Practice

Master change management with our new practice. Discover proven processes and tools to lead your team through transitions, boost employee adoption, and achieve your successful enterprise transformation.

Cprime Elabor8 becomes an ICAgile Transformation Member: A new era in tailored transformations

Cprime Elabor8 is an ICAgile Transformation Member, delivering expert consulting, coaching, and accredited learning to drive sustainable enterprise agility.

Cprime Elabor8 appoints Richard Parker as Managing Director

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Nam Huynh as new CEO and Richard Parker as CCO.

Cprime Elabor8 appoints Nam Huynh as new CEO and Richard Parker as CCO

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Nam Huynh as new CEO and Richard Parker as CCO.

Elabor8 Partners with Apptio to Revolutionise Organisational Planning 

Elabor8 partners with Apptio to streamline project planning, achieve strategic alignment, maximise ROI and gain cost insights.

Unlock the future of business innovation with Elabor8’s new GenAI courses

We are delighted to announce the launch of Elabor8’s GenAI Courses, designed to elevate your organisation’s AI proficiency.

Elabor8 SmartBear Partnership

We’ve partnered with SmartBear for enhanced test automation solutions, solidifying its role as a tech industry pioneer.

Elabor8 appoints Sam Davis as Head of the Academy Practice

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Sam Davis as the new Head of Academy at Elabor8.

Atlassian Platinum Partner Announcement

We are an Atlassian Platinum Solutions Partner! As a Platinum Solution Partner, we offer strategic and innovative agile consultation, training, and tooling solutions for Atlassian clients.

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.

Elabor8 is joining Cprime

Dear Clients and Friends, I am excited to announce that Elabor8 is joining Cprime to bring together two of the most respected names in the consulting industry. Cprime, a leading global consulting firm specialising in Agile and DevOps solutions, was founded in 2003 and over time has continued to grow and expand its services, both through organic growth and strategic…

Elabor8’s new Atlassian managed service offering

As an Atlassian Gold Solutions Partner, we have recently launched a new Atlassian managed service offering.

Elabor8’s new Training Course: Jira Essentials with Agile Mindset

Elabor8, a leading provider of professional development and consulting services, has launched a new Atlassian managed service offering.

Elabor8 establishes Automation Practice, headed by Craig Harvey

Elabor8 is delighted to announce the appointment of Craig Harvey to head up our newly formalised Automation Practice as the Practice Lead.

Global Division and appointment of Kim Ballestrin

Announcement: Global Division and appointment of Kim Ballestrin as head of the department

Elabor8 appoints new leader for Cloud Practice and Teaming Models offerings

We’re thrilled to welcome Chamara Somaratne as the lead on two important components of Elabor8’s transformation services, Cloud Practice and Teaming Models.

Elabor8 becomes Gold SPCT Transformation Partner

We would like to congratulate James Halprin, our Principal Consultant and SAFe Practice Manager, on achieving his SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) certification, which is the most advanced certification you can achieve within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Elabor8 advances to Gold Partner in the Scaled Agile Partner Network

Elabor8 is now a Gold Partner within the Scaled Agile Partner Network, enabling us to deliver the network’s highest level of certification to help organisations successfully implement the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe).

AFR Fast 100 list for 2017

Maintaining a place on the list from year to year requires the same focus on continuous innovation that we help our clients to achieve.

How Australia’s IT leaders are rising to the innovation challenge

As businesses switch their focus to building digital solutions, the challenge has been to rapidly marry what is technologically possible, with what will meet customer demand. With that shift has been a pivotal change in the role of CIOs, and their influence on business outcomes. We’ve partnered with CIO Australia for their annual CIO50; a list that recognises IT leaders…

Sponsoring CIO50, recognising Australia’s most innovative CIOs

Elabor8 is a proud sponsor CIO Australia’s second annual CIO50 list, recognising Australia’s most innovative and effective Chief Information Officers.

2016 Financial Review Fast 100

We’re extremely proud to announce that Elabor8 has again made the 2016 Financial Review Fast 100 list.

New Kanban Services

We’re proud to bring Lean Kanban University to Australia and to have the first accredited Kanban Trainers in the country – Andrew Blain and Marcio Sete.

Management 3.0 Licensed

We are thrilled to have two world-renowned Management 3.0 specialists at Elabor8 facilitating our new training course in partnership with Happy Melly.

Rebooting the Academy

We’re excited to share the latest about our Academy – beginning with an inspiring new leadership team, Rebecca Rumble and Marcio Sete.

Elabor8 launches new DevOps service line

DevOps is about enabling organisations to reduce the cost of delivery by creating an environment where fast, frequent and reliable software releases can happen.

50 Best Innovative Companies to Watch 2016

We are proud to announce that Elabor8 was named as one of the Top 50 Innovative Companies to Watch in 2016, by US-based technology magazine The Silicon Review.

LAST Conference 2016

We’re excited to join LAST Conference this week and to have a huge spread of our consultants running sessions as part of the program this year.

#EqualityHacks Sydney launch breakfast

Join us for breakfast at the Hilton Sydney on Friday 15 July to enjoy a morning of inspirational talks from technology leaders who are driving action on equality in their organisations today.

Excerpt from “The Essentials for Success as an Agile Business Analyst” workshop

This is an overview of some elements we’ll be exploring in my workshop, The Essentials to Success as an Agile Business Analyst at Agile Australia 2016.

Super Agile Talent Kim Ballestrin joins Elabor8

We are extremely excited to welcome Kim Ballestrin as a Principal Consultant in our Agile Transformation service line.

Highlights from YOW! West 2016 Perth

Erwin van der Koogh and I ventured over to the west coast to speak at YOW! West last week.

Highlights From Scrum Australia 2016

It was an rewarding two days of learning from some of the most progressive thinkers in the field.

New training courses from Elabor8 Academy

We’re excited to announce that we’re adding two new market leading courses to our Academy.

Agile Australia 2016

We’re proud to be Gold Sponsors of Agile Australia again this year.

Elabor8 joins Scrum Australia 2016

We’re thrilled to announce our support for the premiere of Scrum Australia in Melbourne this year.

Elabor8 featured in APAC CIOoutlook Magazine

CIOoutlook magazine has listed us as one of the 25 Most Promising Agile Solutions Providers for 2016.

Highlights of Agile India 2016

Agile India 2016 had a great mix of national and international speakers and participants; here are some of my highlights of the conference.

Vic ICT for Women awards Elabor8 with Honoured Membership

We’re proud to be the Victorian ICT for Women’s newest Gold Corporate Member.

New Agile Talent and Promotions to the Leadership Team

The last 12-18 months have been pretty big for Elabor8, and our team continues to grow.

Erwin van der Koogh speaks at Agile India 2016

We would like to announce that Erwin van der Koogh – Head of the Elabor8 Academy will be giving his “7 Habits of Highly Effective Organisations” talk at Agile India tomorrow. His talk explores what companies need beyond adopting Agile to not only survive, but to thrive in the 21st century. Since our inception one of our founding principles has…

1st Conference 2016

We are excited to announce that we are once again supporting the 1st Conference.

Ben Linders training coming to Australia!

Elabor8 is very excited to announce that Ben Linders will be coming to Australia for the first time in February 2016. He will be running a number of training courses at the Elabor8 office. Based in The Netherlands, Ben is a leading authority on Agile Retrospectives and is the author of “Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives”. Ben is an…

Elabor8’s journey with Gender Diversity and BOLDMoves

Elabor8’s Gender Diversity Challenge & our involvement in Vic ICT for Women #BOLDMoves initiative. Here at Elabor8 we are firm believers in Gender Diversity. Since our inception we have strived to establish a diverse consulting base, and as is probably the case with many other companies our initial efforts centred around attracting more women into the recruitment funnel. This didn’t…

Moving up the BRW FAST100

The last financial year was a very successful and busy one for us.  We opened a new office in Sydney where we have now established our brand through our community facilitation. We have quickly earned a blue chip client list and our Sydney Office is experiencing tremendous growth.We made significant investments in consulting capability around our strategic service offerings.  …

Elabor8 Gold Sponsors of Vic ICT For Women #BOLDMoves Program

We’re proud to be the Gold Sponsors of Vic ICT for Women #BOLDMoves Program #BOLDMoves is a unique event exploring corporate gender dynamics and Australia’s start-up obsession, the opportunities this offers IT’s key employers and the highly prized female leadership talent, as it will be these women who will be making the next #BOLDMoves A Night of Disruptive inspiration: Hosted in…

Elabor8 wins ATO RFP

Elabor8 is proud to announce that it has been successful in its response to the Australian Tax Office (ATO) and has been recognised as a panel supplier. Specifically, Elabor8 will provide services relating to the implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and SAFe ScrumXP. SAFe is increasingly being adopted as the way to Scale Agile in large organisations, and…

Elabor8 added to NSW Government eServices Panel

We are excited to announce that we have been awarded a place on the NSW Government eServices Panel as a supplier of ICT services. Since expanding to NSW earlier this year this has been a key criteria in all of our discussions with Government Departments, so we are delighted to be awarded a place on the panel. We have already…

Elabor8 sponsoring CukeUp Australia

We’re proud to be sponsoring the Inaugural CukeUp Australia Conference. Elabor8 has a long history of promoting BDD on our client sites so we were very excited when cucumber team announced they were bringing CukeUp to Australia. CukeUp is billed as… A progressive conference for testers, developers and product owners who think differently The CukeUp conference is a really good fit…

Elabor8 selected as a key supplier to NAB

We are proud to announce that Elabor8 were selected as a key supplier to NAB in providing Business Analysis experience in the field of Agile methodologies and execution. Being recognised for our qualitative approach in delivering Agile expertise, Elabor8 will engage with key business stakeholders and projects to establish Agile as a proven and value-delivering mechanism within NAB. The hope is…

Elabor8 Lunch and Learn

At Elabor8, we’re passionate about sharing and learning about new ideas, and we’re actively involved in the Agile, Product Development, and Innovation community. Meetup groups are a great way to get involved. You get the opportunity to learn from some experienced speakers and meet interesting new people. So we’ve started Elabor8’s Lunch and Learn Meetup group to bring people together.  We…

Elabor8 Headline Sponsor at LAST Conference 2015

We’re proud to announce that we’ve signed up as the Headline Sponsor for the LAST Conference 2015. LAST Conference Melbourne 2015 is a one day, affordable, grassroots mini-conference for Lean, Agile, and Systems Thinking practitioners. The schedule encourages participation and interaction via talks, workshops and activities. Date: 18th September 2015 Location: Swinburne University, Hawthorn Schedule: See here

Elabor8 welcomes Paul Caon to the team

We’re delighted to welcome Paul Caon as our new Professional Services Manager in Melbourne. The last year has delivered a great level of success for Elabor8, the consulting team has grown to almost 50 consultants, we have repositioned the company and added new service lines in Innovation &  Product Design and Agile Transformation to our Agile and Business Analysis delivery consulting.…

Another great Agile Australia – 2015

WOW, another year, another Agile Australia conference and what a conference it was. Sydney greeted us with dreary weather, which was just as well because there was absolutely no reason to leave the Hilton where a number of great topics were on offer. If you didn’t manage to attend, our consultant Ryan Mckergow has blogged a summary for the talks he attended…

Elabor8 opens office in Sydney

We’ve outgrown our Bligh Street address and moved to a larger space atLevel 21, 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.  This week saw the opening of our Sydney office within the spectacular building at number 1 Bligh Street. We’re thrilled with the opening as it allows us to better support our clients, but also creates the opportunity to get involved and help grow the Agile community…

1st Conference wrap-up

Thanks to the team from Tabar for putting on another engaging and memorable event! With three concurrent streams throughout the day focusing on Team, Technical and Management aspects of organisational agility, there was plenty to get involved in. Both Ryan and Andrew from our Agile team delivered a great presentation on where Business Analysts fit into Agile. If you missed…

Additions to the Elabor8 team

We’re excited to welcome three deeply experienced practitioners to our principal consulting team. David, Michael and Erwin bring enormous value and capability to our Agile Transformation, Lean, Product and Innovation offerings. David Landry: Principal Consultant. David specialises in Program and Portfolio Frameworks and Program Delivery. He has a long career helping some of Australia’s earliest Agile adopters and has joined to lead our Enterprise Agile…

We’re Gold Sponsors at Agile Australia 2015

We’re proud to again be associated with the Agile Australia conference, this year as Gold Sponsors. After having such a great time last year, we decided to increase our support and involvement in the conference. It’s already shaping up to be another memorable event. Learn from international experts on leadership, share your experiences with peers and network with an enthusiastic Agile…

It’s Official! We made this year’s BRW Fast 100 list!

…and we couldn’t have done it without you. We’re excited to announce that Elabor8 has been named on the 2014 BRW Fast 100 list for outstanding business growth. Although we just snuck in, this is a huge milestone for us – it confirms that all of our hard work over the last year is paying dividends and demonstrates we’re delivering…

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 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…

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 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…

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 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 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 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…

Denton achieves his SAFe Program Consultant Certification

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…

Elabor8 Sponsoring LAST Conference

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…

We’ve Moved

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…

Elabor8’s Rupi Parmar part of Winning REA Hack Day outfit

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…

Congrats to Jess our newest SPC

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…

Elabor8 jazzes up your Agile Retrospectives

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…

Congratulations to our latest CBAP

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.    

Elabor8 Running for the Kids

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…

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