What we’re about
This group is a community of business analysts in Melbourne that operate or want to operate in agile projects. Analysts and people interested in becoming or working with analysts are welcome.
We meet on the second Tuesday of each month at various locations in the CBD.
If you are an author or speaker we'd love to hear from you.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Josh on Scaling, Greta on ValuesLink visible for attendees
Session 1: Clear values make for better leaders
With Greta Bradman, Founder of theCompass.ai
Clear organisational values make for better leaders and better results. As psychological drivers that impact how we show up, values play a critical role in our decisions, interactions, and how we interpret events - whether or not we're even aware of our values. When organisational values are fuzzy or poorly activated, we tend to fall back on our own individual values, which can vary greatly between people, leading to conflict and confusion. As a leader, knowing and activating your organization's values and your own enables alignment with strategy, reduces burnout and 'quiet quitters', and optimises business performance.Session 2: Scaling product and the 4 key platforms
with Josh Centner, Principal Product Manager at Seek
In product and technology, our main objective is to meet our team and business goals. Success isn't just about delivering a good product; it's about ensuring all departments - strategy, marketing, sales, and operations - achieve their objectives. However, departments often operate in silos, leading to inefficiencies. By adopting an operational vision and aligning strategy around key platforms, organizations can reduce waste and improve scalability. - Critical Thinking | Mapping Conflict ResolutionLink visible for attendees
Session 1: The art of critical thinking & the steps you can take to think better with Dannielle K Pearson, Strategist, advisor, investor
Drawing from my experience as a Military Officer and in the US Intelligence Community, I'll share insights on viewing the world differently and the importance of critical thinking. Contrary to common belief, critical thinking relies more on Emotional Intelligence (EI) than intellectual capabilities. I'll explore why it's not our natural inclination and provide examples from my professional life, offering practical steps to foster critical thinking.Session 2: Resolving Conflict with The Evaporating Cloud with Dr Dan Prager, everyone's favourite Agile educator
Learn about Goldratt’s Evaporating Cloud, a powerful technique that can help you manage stakeholder interests, reconcile contradictory requests, and cultivate personal calm as you navigate the turbulent waters of product development. - Product thinking for Platform teams | Introducing ExperiementsLink visible for attendees
Speaker 1: Product Ownership for Platform teams
Featuring Javier Turegano Engineering Director, Canva
Internal platforms are becoming very prominent in all modern thinking technology companies across the globe. To maximise your opportunities to succeed in assembling your internal platform it’s important to think about your platform as a product. In this talk, Javier will be sharing some of the experiences on applying product thinking to creating and developing developer platforms at his last two organisations: Slack and REA Group, and now CanvaSpeaker 2: Introducing Experimentation to how we work
Featuring Mayase Jere, A human centred product manager
While advocating for experimentation is great, how do you challenge established norms and develop expertise in experimental practices? MaYASE will discuss her team's experience integrating a disciplined approach to experimentation into their work. Learn about the expected value and the outcomes achieved from this transformative change in their working methods. - You can't have Empathy without EmotionLink visible for attendees
Session 1: You can't have Empathy without Emotion
with Lai-Ling Su
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya AngelouThe post-Covid workplace craves for the empathetic leader. Advancements in digital technology and artificial intelligence demands that humans be more human. Yet emotions in the workplace are still frowned upon.
Emotions are everywhere and until we get over the stigma of emotions in the workplace, we won’t have a world where leading with empathy is the norm and the symbiotic relationship between humans and machines that we dream of in the future of work will never be achieved.
Session 2: A Personal Accountability Canvas
with Cindy McClure
An elite F1 racing team is designed to deliver optimum performance up to and including the driver. The F1 Team has a responsibility to optimise these critical components (tyres, aerodynamics, fuel efficiency, analysis of track conditions etc.) that drive performance of the system including starting at the top with the driver's performance.Similarly, as agile, system and lean practitioner practitioners of high performing teams, we have a holistic responsibility and commitment to all of the components of a system including the 'driver' of that system, be it a GM, head of business, Tribe/Platform lead, or Scrum Master/Product Owner.
Performance coaching is based on the science of optimising human motivation and behaviour for any given endeavour. The self-coaching Leadership canvas is a lightweight coaching framework designed to improve a Leaders personal performance.
The canvas brings together over 20 years of performance coaching experience of business leaders designed to improve self-awareness, understanding, motivations & targeted actions.
