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 has been helping organisations adopt SAFe since 2013, and in that time we have been involved with a significant number…
Posts Written ByPaul Velonis
How Netflix transformed boardroom culture: watching the company ‘in the wild’
Netflix disrupted an entire industry. But that’s not the only area where Netflix innovates.
How Netflix built its company culture
Netflix’s unconventional approach to building its culture is what lifts it above the crowd. Here are some of the main lessons that you can take with you.
4 leadership styles every new leader must master
Leadership is more art-form than science. It requires you to assume different styles for specific situations and contexts.
Barriers to corporate innovation and how you can overcome them
Failing to innovate results in businesses dying. Find out the barriers that can impede innovation in the corporate context & how to overcome them.
Tips from startup titans for innovating within your business
Technological innovation alone won’t help you avoid disruption. It’s the ability to navigate the resulting changes in your business model that’s most important.
Five ways to build a collaborative culture in your organisation
We need collaboration to innovate. The sharing of ideas leads to more new ideas forming. The question is, how do you move from just talking about it, to taking action that gets results?
Amazon’s shift from presentation culture to memo culture
When you look for innovators in the modern business world, you look to Amazon. The company has made innovation its goal in everything that it does. They have to be because they need to stay ahead of customer demands. As Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos puts it: “Our customers are loyal to us right up until the second somebody offers them…
Free CBAP Practice Exam
The team at Elabor8 have put together a short sample exam to help you with your CBAP or CCBA preparation.
How well do you really know the BABOK?
Which is the best Agile tool, and do I need one?
Paul introduces a series of Agile tool reviews by discussing some of the ways in which story management software can help.
So what do cucumbers have to do with requirements anyway
Paul introduces Cucumber (and Gherkins), and discusses techniques for developing executable acceptance criteria using a domain specific language. Cucumber is a tool that is frequently used in agile environments and Gherkins are feature files.
Stop Specifying the Obvious
Paul discusses the problems with over-specification with regards to common problems and proposes some solutions.