LAST Anywhere

A series of remote-first learning events, called LAST Anywhere that originated from the onset of March 2020 lockdowns. The initial format was 30-50 participants viewing an online talk from a speaker drawn from Tabar’s global network. Followed by a session of virtual break-out sessions, facilitated by experienced facilitators.

1st Conference Adelaide & Melbourne

Agile and Lean for business of all types.

1st Conference Melbourne

Since 2015, 1st Conference brought learning to the Australian agile community and we will continue to provide a valuable, accessible learning experience to people in all types of business. It was designed to be a more formal experience to help those in larger organisations who were grappling with the concepts and practicalities of working with greter agility.

Adelaide

Tow editions of 1st Conference Adelaide were at Flinders University at Tonsley. In 2020, Jurgen Appelo, the acclaimed agile management and innovation author, speaker and trainer visited Adelaide for the first time.

He was joined by Soledad Pinter, the Head of Global Operations for the Heart of Agile. who at 1st Conference.

Jurgen Appelo’s, ShiftUp: Business Agility & Innovation Leader Workshop

As well as being an opening speaker at 1st Conference, Jurgen ran his ShiftUp: Business Agility & Innovation Leader Workshop in Adelaide and Melbourne. This was the only time ever that Jurgen intends to run this course in Australia.

Heart of Agile Workshop with Soledad Pinter

Soledad’s 2 day course is developed with Dr Alistair Cockburn, originator of the Heart of Agile concept, as well as a co-author of the Agile Manifesto. This was the first time that this has been run in Australia.

2040 film fundraiser

We held a fundraising screening of the Australian film, 2040. The film explores what might happen if we decided to use technologies that are available now, to improve our planet.

Funds raised were matched dollar for dollar by The Intrepid Group and go towards an innvovative marine aqua/perma-culture project in Tasmania. You can still donate…

Spark the Change

Figures show that more than 80% of people are disengaged with the work that they do. How can we address that issue and help people to be more engaged, and find purpose in work and also in their communities? Spark the Change was our way of helping people to connect purpose to work, as well as profit.

It was a conference about meaning and purpose in workplaces and in society, and the changing nature of what we do at work. It was part of a series of events that were held in London, Amsterdam, Pune, Paris, Casablanca, Toronto and Montreal.

Participants of #SparkMEL across its 4 editions, learnt from colleagues from REA Group, TomCar, Seek, The Fitzroy Academy, Westpac, MYOB, Envato, Vinomofo, The University of Melbourne's Centre for Positive Psychology, Buro Architecture, cogent, The Holos Group and more. This inspired them with ways to stimulate positive change in organisations.

We also hosted a regular Spark the Change Meetup group which is designed to foster the Community aspect of our goals, so that stories of inspiration, partnering for social impact, collaboration and belongingness carry on beyond the walls of a conference venue.

LAST Conferences 2019 — Find Your Edge

LAST Conferences are the best community-based events of their type in Australia.

In 2019, editions of LAST were held in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra.

LAST Conference is an affordable, grassroots mini-conference for Lean, Agile, and Systems Thinking practitioners.

The emphasis is on:

• sharing of practical skills

• real experiences of lean and agile adoption

• the latest in systems thinking practice

• gaining inspiration from fellow practitioners

LAST Conference

Since 2012, LAST has been our original, community based Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking event. This event is now also in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane, organised by local practitioners and supported by Tabar.

LAST Conference website

1st Conference

Take a look at what happened at 1st Conference, 2-3 March 2017. Keynote speakers, Jurgen Appelo, Alistair Cockburn and Ange Ferguson joined an array of speakers and workshop facilitators, to delve into the "Heart of Agile"

1st Conference website

Jurgen Appelo

REA Group have been long time supporters of Management 3.0 in Australia. They asked Tabar to organise a session with Jurgen Appelo and some of their people, when Jurgen visited Melbourne, recently. Find out what happened when Jurgen visited to help grow "world-class practices and culture" there.

Management 3.0 workshop

Norman Bodek

Highlights from Norman's talk at LAST Conference Melbourne, 30 June 2017. Norman is known as "The Godfather of Lean", publishing over 200 books, including those of the great Toyota production writers, Shigeo Shingo and Taiichi Ohno.

Find out about our Harada Method course, featuring Norman.

Work Together Anywhere with Lisette Sutherland

We brought Lisette, a leading international expert in remote collaboration, to Australia for 1st Conference 2019. While she was here, she ran some Australia and New Zealand timezone friendly versions of her online workshops.

These were a big success, so we are continuing to offer the Work Together Anywhere Workshops as fully remote sessions. Select the Learn More button below for currently scheduled session dates.

If your company works with colleagues who are geographically distributed, the Work Together Anywhere workshop is for you.

Business Analyst Masterclass

With course content devised by Craig Brown, this  masterclass introduces the business analysis practice re-contextualised in an agile environment. The course will inspect the role of the business analyst and business analysis activities in major agile frameworks. The mindset and attitudes of an agile business analyst are also addressed.

Find out about the Business analysis Masterclass

Lean Startup in Enterprise

Tabar partners with Penelope Barr to present this 1 day course.

In this highly practical, real-world, one-day training course, together we’ll explore how to pragmatically apply lean start-up principles in a large organisation.

Many people have read about lean start-up, or tried some of the elements in their workplaces, only to come unstuck because they’re not sure of what to do, when & how.

Management 3.0 was developed by Jurgen Appelo, a leading Agile author, thinker, blogger and inspirational change master. 

MGT3.0 develops participants to create high performance teams and lead and manage Agile organizations. Development managers and team leaders need to learn what their new role is in developing and leading Agile organizations.

The 1 day Workout course, takes the most practical parts of the Management 3.0 system and gives you concrete tools to take back to your workplace.

This one day workshop is about The Harada Method, which was developed by Takashi Harada as the “world’s best process on day-to-day management to develop people to their fullest capability.” It uses a sports analogy and teaches a leader how to be like a highly successful coach, bringing out the best from their employees. The Harada Method is a step-by-step method, with 5 main tools that help you to find your goal, understand your purpose, analyse your past and future, build an action plan and use this plan in your daily routine. 

In an increasingly complex and agile workplace, it is becoming massively important to be able to skilfully manage change, and our Agile and Lean Change Management experts will give you a powerful framework with which to do this.

Lean Change Management is part of the global Happy Melly network. Tabar has a relationship with Jurgen Appelo's Happy Melly network, stretching back to 2012. We have brought Jurgen out to Australia to speak and teach on multiple occassions.

We partner with the legendary Alistair Cockburn to deliver his unique training, when he visits Australia.

Management 3.0 Agile Leadership Practices is innovative, experiential learning that provides insights and practices for dealing with complexity and uncertainty in organisations. It was developed by Jurgen Appelo, a leading Agile author, thinker, and blogger.

Management 3.0 helps participants to create high performance teams and lead and manage Agile organizations. Managers and team leaders need to learn what their new role is in developing and leading Agile organizations. 

Tabar pioneered Management 3.0 in Australia and New Zealand, bringing Jurgen to this region for the first time in 2012.

Find out about our Management 3.0 Workout course.

The Kanban method is a popular Agile method for managing work, based on Lean and System Thinking concepts.  It has a focus on visualising the work, limiting the work to the team capacity and providing improved time to market and better predictability. 

This half day course covers the theory and practice of the Kanban process…

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