Melbourne Workshops

Cost: $800

In 2016 organisations are faced with ever increasing complexity, disruption and the need to deliver a first class, engaging experience, whilst driving efficiencies and innovation at the same time.

Organisations, leaders and teams that get the people elements right (collaboration, motivation and direction) are the ones that will succeed this decade and the next few to come. They are the ones that fight complexity, do more with less, create the leading edges of innovation and attract the best talent (from the global stage).

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Cost: $800

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle

You have been doing Agile for a few years now. With a regular cadence you have retrospectives and a lot of problems and great improvement opportunities are raised but you don’t seem to really improve. Let us put your retrospectives on steroids. Start using Toyota Kata!

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Cost: $450

Experience how agile testing is different to traditional testing in this hands on workshop

Summary:
Agile testing is about more than how to squeeze enough testing in on the last few days of the sprint. However so many teams have adopted agile and not yet changed the way they test.

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Cost: $450

Improve your meetings, workshops and training by mastering the art of facilitation.

Summary:
Agile is all about collaboration and this means more time talking with people and truly understanding requirements. Mostly this results in more meetings. You need to make every meeting productive and effective, and the way to do that is through facilitation.

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Cost: $450

It’s not just about the stories.

This workshop teaches a technique which builds upon and extends the familiar (from XP) planning game. Blitz planning is a fast moving activity which supports the development of the first three month planning horizon for any technology project. Technical and business stakeholders work together to rapidly identify project dependencies and bottlenecks and out any potential hidden surprises in your project.

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Cost: $800

Dealing with complexity, working within constraints and adapting to change – people handle challenges much more effectively on some occasions than others. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn about the role of “mindsets” and how to work with them in order to support people (including yourself!) when they’re not performing their best.

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Cost: $450

Energise teams and improve performance with Visual Management

How do we move beyond visualising “To Do, Doing and Done”? How can great visualisations support more energised and focused teams? How can the best visuals encourage better practices without management intervention?

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Cost: $800

Agile works, but can become repetitive in practice. Improve your team’s Agile performance by incorporating collaboration frameworks that make the common tasks more effective and fun.

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Cost: $800

This Leadership Masterclass will illustrate the power of studying service organisations as systems and – using the knowledge gained – redesigning them.

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Cost: $450

“From both an organisational and an ICT point of view, it doesn’t get more Agile than this in healthcare.”

Do you think you know ‘Agile’? When Buurtzorg quickly grew into the Netherlands’ biggest homecare organisation, we began to think again. The Buurtzorg Foundation puts humanity over bureaucracy and delivers community and home health care via self-managing teams working without a management structure. In 2015, there were 9700 Buurtzorg nurses working in 850 teams, supported by Agile organisation and software.

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Cost: $800

Anyone who’s done usability testing can tell you that it’s one of the best ways to ensure that what you build (a website, application, mobile app, or anything else) – is as good as it can be. Most people still think however, that usability testing is complicated, costly, and time consuming.

In this day-long session, I’ll teach you how to do your own low-cost/no-cost usability testing that’s simple enough to make it a routine part of your Agile process.

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Cost: $450

True success comes when the responsibilities of a business analyst in an Agile team incorporates creating continued shared context for the Agile team whilst maintaining the role of the navigator/yardstick and asking “Are we there yet?” This workshop will focus on thinking beyond software through the entire process, from problem definition through setting business outcomes, building business value and user experience.

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