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32 articles about "PEOPLE & CULTURE"

Allan Waddell

WhyIdidtheCEOSkydive-andwhyallCEOsshouldtakethisplunge

On May 6, I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet as part of the Black Dog Institute’s CEO Skydive. Stepping out of the aircraft was an absolute thrill and a challenge – but far from the most daunting leap I’ve taken in my professional life.

ARN

ARNAnnouncesFinaliststhe2022WICCTAAwards

We are incredibly proud to annouce that two of our extraordinary team members have been recognised as finalists in this years ARN Women in IT Awards (WIICTA)

ITWire

KablamotapsMcDowellforgeo-spatialexpertise

The Kablamo team is always expanding to include exceptional talent. ITWire celebrates with us.

Kablamo Recording

TechTalk:TomoHart

Product designer, Tomo Hart, and co-CEO Allan Waddell, chat the calibre of the Kablamites and Monday morning inspiration.

Information Age

Thezero-hourcontract:it’sanewwayofworking

It’s lean times for employment certainty – and while many will find solace in the government’s JobKeeper program, others will see the pandemic as an inflection point to take their skills back to market – or change careers altogether.

Aaron Markie

TheUltimateWFHCommitment

We needed a WFH Commitment to maintain trust and collaboration, ensuring our projects continued to be successful in these unsettled times.

Angus Dorney

WillyourcompanyvaluessurviveCOVID-19?

Last week in Australia, we witnessed a spectacular and public implosion of company values from one of the most popular banks.

Kablamo

ACOVIDANTHEMRISES

Members of the Kablamo team have many super powers outside of the digital world. One Kablamite has a secret identity as an artist and song writer

Tim Elson

DEPLOYINGSOLUTIONSDRIVENBYMACHINELEARNING

There’s an ‘us and them’ mentality between software engineering and data science.

Debby McGerty

ALIVINGGUIDETOLIVINGWELL

Loss is a powerful time in everybody’s life. It is something we all experience and is a period of profound soul-searching. I’ve spent many years on this earth and have navigated the loss of many of my most-loved people. Recently, it was my husband.

Kablamo

LET'STALKCULTUREDYNAMICBUSINESS

Kablamo’s co-CEO Angus Dorney was interviewed by Dynamic Business about maintaining culture when you’re under the gun as a business. Here are his thoughts

Kablamo

BOARDGAMENIGHTANDTHEHUMOURFOUNDATION

Think you have what it takes to be a board game champion? Want to support a terrific cause? Like beers and snacks?

Kate Stevenson

GODEEPLEARNING!

One of our Kablamites literally wrote the book on building and implementing neural networks using Go.

Angus Dorney

VALUESANDJOINTLEADERSHIP

In business leadership, the conventional wisdom is that one person should be the driving force. Any alternative leadership structure typically is met with eyebrows raised high. As a co-chief executive, it’s the reaction I was expecting...

Angus Dorney

FIVESAYINGSTHATSOUNDSMART,BUTAREACTUALLYDUMB

common workplace sayings that people may think are smart, but they are actually dumb

Daniel Serrano

ONKABLAMO,MELBOURNEANDLIFEDECISIONS.

Here’s the latest on Kablamo’s culture, courtesy Daniel Serrano, who has just joined the team down in Melbourne!

Angus Dorney

RISEOFTHEMAMMAL:THEEXISTENTIALTHREATFACINGTRADITIONALCONSULTANCIES

Read Angus’s thoughts on traditional consultancies below

Angus Dorney

THE"ODDCOUPLE"-MYFIRSTYEARASCO-CEO

One year ago, I made the biggest move of my career and joined Kablamo as co-CEO.

Kate Stevenson

TENWAYSTOATTRACTANDKEEPTHEBESTTECHTALENT...

...when everyone says it's impossible. Kablamo is a small but fast-growing cloud application development business and, so far, we seem to have a good formula for attracting and retaining really great technical talent

Ben Boyter

ALLYOUNEEDTOKNOWABOUTELASTICSEARCHBUTWEREAFRAIDTOASK.

These pointers should be enough for anyone to get started with elastic, produce a modern search interface and know how to do most things. Anything beyond this should be fairly easy to pick up from the elastic documentation once you have this grounding.

Kablamo

WHYIHIREDACO-CEO

It’s said to be lonely at the top when running a business, but as this business owner explains, appointing a co-CEO can be a beneficial way of positioning the company, and oneself, for growth.

Allan Waddell

WHYTWOCEOSCANBEBETTERTHANONE

“Co-CEO… how’s that going for you?” This is a question I’ve been asked many times in my first six months sharing the helm of fast-growing cloud software engineering company, Kablamo.

Kablamo

WHATMATTERSTOYOUWHENYOUTHINKABOUTHIRINGANITCONSULTANT?

Hiring an outside IT consultant is obviously a common business decision, but the experience can be complicated.

Victoria Adams

UX/UI,THEPERFECTCOUPLE

This week, Kablamo's UX/UI lead, Victoria Adams weighs in on the UX/UI thing...

Kablamo

BUZZWORD:DEVOPS

DevOps is overused. What does it really mean, and what's a better word for it?

Kablamo

BUZZWORD:AI

In this week's buzzword chat the team tackles how machine learning & AI aren't going to solve your IT woes -- robust discussion ensues.

Kablamo

BUZZWORD:BLOCKCHAIN

Listen to the team tackle Blockchain as a buzzword, current industry uses, what blockchain might look like in the future and the effectiveness of distributed systems (or read the transcript)

Angus Dorney

WHYI’MJOININGKABLAMO

Today, I join a special group of people who are creating a truly amazing company.

Tom Giordmaina

AUTOMATEDTESTING:AREYOUMISSINGOUTONTHEBIGBENEFITS?

In my experience as a QA Manager, every organisation I’ve worked for has had a keen interest in automated testing. It’s easy to see why everyone falls in love with its perceived benefits - faster testing, with fewer people, at lower cost… the dream!

Allan Waddell

WHATGROWTHHACKHELPSSCALEYOURBUSINESS?

Our growth hack is built entirely around people. In order to scale a business quickly, we believe you have to create a foundation that is fully human.

Kablamo

AWSRE:INVENT-LASVEGAS

Next week, Kablamo will be attending the AWS Re:Invent conference for the first time, in Las Vegas. It's a momentous occasion for us. We are now officially an AWS Advanced Tier Partner - a status shared by only a handful of providers in Sydney, Australia.

Allan Waddell

THEAGILEDEPENDENCYWALL

I’m sharing some of the techniques we use, that drive consistent Agile delivery. These articles are not intended to be exhaustive, rather an introduction to the theories and concepts we apply day to day.

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