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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…

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…

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.    

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

We would like to send our support to Elabor8er Alex McGarry who is joining the TelcoTogether Foundation team in climbing Kilimanjaro for charity.