events

Adaptra Hosts its first Executive Breakfast for the year - February 2011
Adaptra hosted its first Executive Breakfast for the year at the Sofitel Wentworth Hotel on 25 February 2011. The breakfast focused on the topic: "Does the popularity of cloud computing, (including Software as a Service) significantly change the nature of the "Best of Breed versus Fully Integrated Applications" debate? It provided the opportunity for peers to discuss this and related issues and how it may impact their business. For a copy of the Executive Breakfast Summary please click here.

Adaptra Annual Christmas Party - 25 November 2010 - Museum of Contemporary Art
Adaptra / Nova IT and Touchpoint celebrated the festive season with their annual Christmas party held Thursday 25 November at the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rocks. The venue boasted fantastic views of Sydney Harbour and the weather could not have been better. More than 130 guests attended and everyone had a fantastic night with amazing food and great company.

Adaptra Annual Christmas Party - November 2009
The Adaptra Group celebrated the festive season with their annual Christmas Party on Thursday 26th November, 2009. Taking place at Quay Restaurant in the Rocks, a fantastic night was had by all, with 160 people in attendance. For photos of the evening click here.

Adaptra asks whether Agile and PMO are oil and water or bourbon and coke - October 2009
As part of Adaptra's Agile Roundtable series, on Tuesday 20th October 2009 Adaptra held a roundtable asking the key question: "Can you combine the forces of Agile and PMO?" The roundtable discussion engaged with the question of whether Agile and PMO can work profitably together. For a summary of the key discussion points download our free roundtable summary here.

Adaptra hosts roundtable series on Agile in a Waterfall World - September 2009
Two roundtables were held in early September on the topic "Implementing Agile in a Waterfall World". Discussion centred on the challenges, approaches, benefits and readiness of organisations. A definition outlining the values and principles of Agile development was also presented at the roundtables. For a copy of this definition and a summary of the roundtable discussion, download your free roundtable summary here.

Adaptra focuses on process before technology with the latest BPM roundtable - July 2009
TouchPoint, the business process specialists of the Adaptra Group, continued their Business Process Management (BPM) Roundtable series with a roundtable luncheon held on Wednesday 15th July at the Adaptra Group Offices in Sydney. The luncheon focused on the topic: "Process before technology - taking control of the business processes", and provided an invaluable opportunity for peers to come together to discuss topics including: ensuring the business drives the agenda - not IT, and how to ensure that process is improved before automation. For more on this topic download our free whitepaper here.

Adaptra Roundtables focus on Project Portfolio Management - July 2009
As part of Adaptra's roundtable series, two Project Portfolio Management Roundtable luncheons were held on Tuesday 7th July and Thurdsay 9th July at the Adaptra Head Offices in Sydney. The roundtables focused on the topic "Maximising Discretionary Spend - how project portfolio management optimises returns". For a copy of the roundtable summary on this topic please click here.

Organisational Maturity Roundtable events hosted by Adaptra - June 2009
The PM Maturity Roundtable events held in late May and early June 2009 on the topic of "Strategies for improving Organisational PM Maturity" focussed on how increasing your maturity level can improve your organisation, by increasing productivity and reducing costs. Adaptra moderated the exclusive group's discussion, which addressed the key questions of 'What is organisational PM maturity and why develop it?' and 'What are the strategies for implementing organisational PM maturity?' A summary from the roundtables can be found here. The next PM Roundtable topic is to be Portfolio and Demand Management. Please email adaptra@adaptra.com.au if you are interested in participating in the discussion.

Adaptra brings CIOs together to discuss implementation of strategy - May 2009
A CIO Roundtable Luncheon held in May 2009 gave the opportunity for a group of CIOs to review some of the collated feedback Adaptra had on how PMO executives approach strategy implementation. Attendees received a complimentary whitepaper on the benefits of 'Implementing Strategy Successfully', available here. The topic to be explored at our next CIO Roundtable will be based on the whitepaper, recently published by Adaptra, on 'Implementing Agile in a Waterfall World'. Click here for your copy of this whitepaper. The roundtable luncheon will be an ideal opportunity to discuss with your peers, the impact on the business of applying agile and to consider the costs, risks and benefits.

Challenges on how to get the process right discussed at BPM Roundtable - April, 2009
'Improving Business Process in the current economic environment' was the topic for the BPM Roundtable Luncheon held in early April, 2009. TouchPoint, the business process experts of the Adaptra Group, were delighted to host a small group of peers to discuss how to improve business performance by improving business processes. The complimentary case study on the benefits of 'Getting the Process Right', which kicked off discussion, can be downloaded here. Suggested topics for future sessions include - How to get business process improvement on top of the executive agenda; Process Performance - how to determine the health of existing processes; How to use process based metrics to measure business performance. If you are interested in attending future BPM Roundtables, please email adaptra@adaptra.com.au.

Executing Strategy Roundtable brings peers together - March, 2009
Adaptra's 'Executing Strategy' Roundtables proved to be an invaluable way to encourage dynamic discussion on issues and concerns affecting the industry. Held in March 2009, the roundtables provided PMO leaders with the opportunity to engage with peers on how best to execute strategy. Consideration was given to a range of topics, from the impact of the financial crisis to the most effective methods of implementing change management. Click here to request a copy of the summary of what the PMO leaders discussed at this Roundtable event.