Sound agile planning isn’t about focusing on how to get to the end state quicker; it’s about informing each step of the process along the way to help you identify and deal with complexity.
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Supporting employees experiencing family and domestic violence
On White Ribbon Day, Elabor8 introduced its Domestic and Family Violence Policy. Our policy goes above and beyond the new government-mandated requirements for family and domestic violence leave.
Why is determining business value so complex?
“Have we been successful in delivering business value?” While this question is becoming increasingly important for many businesses focused on delivering customer value, it’s not as straightforward as you might think.
Why your sprint retrospectives are losing momentum
Retrospective sessions often seem like an endpoint in itself. But when they’re not followed up by action, the momentum is lost, and ultimately, the effort wasted.
How to resuscitate your agile retrospectives
Here’s the scenario: you’ve finished a huge sprint. The whole team has pushed hard to get it done. Catching up to talk about the past couple of weeks — is the last thing you want to do. But don’t let this opportunity pass you by.
You either agree on creating business value, or you compete
The first principle of the Agile Manifesto is a priority on satisfying customers through delivery of value. But is there a difference between value that satisfies customers, and business value? Does it actually matter?
Leading and living a ‘human-first’ culture
At work we need our basic human needs met like personal growth, autonomy, and a sense of achievement. However, human-first cultures are more than just about meeting a sense of job satisfaction and offering flexibility between work and personal life.
Agile is the answer to transformation –– but that won’t mean transformation will be simple
Guest post by David Landry Former Elabor8er, David Landry has been leading significant technology and business change projects for over 30 years. Agile comes with big expectations. Companies think that by applying agile ways of working, they will instantly simplify their processes and begin to deliver faster, with less people, while at the same time removing costs from the organisation.…
LawMaster gets an Agile boost from Elabor8
The development team of LawMaster, a legal software solutions provider for law firms, has seen a vast improvement in its overall velocity and productivity since it partnered with Elabor8. The company, which recently celebrated its 30th birthday, embarked on its Agile journey two years prior to engaging with Elabor8. During that period, the development team successfully implemented an Agile Scrum…
Alumni Story: Thomas Peterson, Global Head of Product at iflix
Career background Having studied Industrial Design at uni, I fell into the industry after a mate suggested I apply for a junior business analyst job at a small digital agency called Salsa Digital. I thought they hired me because of some fluke innate ability I had, it turns out I was just cheap! Salsa gave me a great grounding in…
Embedding a lean startup approach to help launch irexchange
irexchange is a startup in the retail sector disrupting the wholesale market by enabling independent retailers to order stock directly from suppliers, through the company’s cloud-based B2B platform. Since launching in January 2017, this innovation has introduced efficiency within the industry’s supply chain, by virtue of cutting out the ‘middlemen’ and allowing smaller retailers to compete on a more even playing field…
3 x faster, 3 x more predictable product delivery
Our customer, an Australian owned online risk trading company had gone through a period of phenomenal growth, expanding from a small team to over 400 people, to become a significant player in the Australian market. This rapid success gave leadership the confidence to set a vision of market leadership by 2020, which they planned to achieve through a focus on…