From the archive. Why I started the LAST Mini-conference

last last club Jan 25, 2024

From 2012, this post was written by co-founder of LAST Conferences, Ed.


LAST Day Melbourne is a one day, low cost, grassroots mini-conference for Lean, Agile, and Systems Thinking practitioners. The day will be structured to allow participation and interaction via workshops and activities, rather than death by projector.

Regular readers will remember my writeup about Agile Tour Sydney. That article had a call to action, regarding doing something along the same lines, here in Melbourne.

When I got back, I was able to enthuse Craig Brown, a fellow co-organiser in the Melbourne Meetup scene and we’ve been working on the idea for the last couple of months.

Originally, we wanted to do something really rapidly, holding the event in March, or even February. The Agile Tour is held between October and December, and I just couldn’t wait that long for Melbourne to have its turn.

Reality stepped in though, as we realised that we probably needed a little time to clear the New...

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The LAST Club Presents…

club last club news Jan 31, 2023
   

LAST Club & Conferences in 2023

Welcome to 2023 at the LAST Club. Once again, we're bringing you more stimulating topics for our LAST Club sessions for Summer/Autumn.

We hope you have had a great summer break and are ready to join us again for a brand new series of Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking topics! 

These online sessions (45-60 mins) are with specially selected presenters from the local, national and international LAST network.

We are excited to announce the following sessions which are scheduled on a regular basis, starting in early February, with more to be added.

  • Paul Hughes The Power of Potential - Fri 10 Feb 
  • Penelope Barr If you buy it, we'll build it - combining google design sprints and pretotypes - Fri 24 Feb
  • Niall McShane An Introduction to Accountable Agility - Thurs 2 March
  • Pete Cohen Growing the Next Generation - Fri 10 March
  • Charlotte McKinnon Metrics that Motivate - Fri 17 March
  • David Williams Creating the dream...
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All Snakes and no Ladders. Postponing, but we'll be back.

last club news Jul 16, 2021

Sometimes it feels like it's all Snakes and no Ladders, but one thing we've all learned in the last 16 months is that things can change…fast. 

Due to what has happened in the past couple of days, we have made the decision to postpone the Mini-LAST Conference scheduled for next Friday (23/7).

The advice is that this lockdown may be lifted from Wednesday morning, however even if things went great for the next couple of days,there will most likely be a gradual relaxation. We couldn’t see how we could achieve what we were setting out to do.

We have to keep on trucking though, and on the bright side, we had a decent response for the event, so with more time and improvement in the general situation…the postponed event should be great!

Rescheduled date

We have been talking with the Abbotsford Convent and have a rescheduled date for this event as follows:

Friday 3 September 2021
9:00am - 4:45pm

We anticipate that...

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What you're missing if you aren't a LAST Club member.

LAST in 2020

Since March 2020, we have delivered a programme of over 50 talks, 90-min workshops, longer courses and mini-conferences…all online. These were presented by over 70 people from Australia, Asia, Canada, the USA and Europe.

Presenters included Barry O'Reilly, Diana Larsen, Prof. Mike Steger, Hugh Mackay AO, John Cutler, Nigel Dalton, Dr Elise Bialylew, Jeff Patton, Kazuyoshi Hisano, Norman Bodek, Dr Zach Mercurio and many more.

Free Members were able to join many of the live sessions, with many of the recordings being available in the free library for a limited time. You can view a Preview of the sessions and also join for free, to access what is in the Free Library. We also have a Slack group that has over 2000 members. Come and find your people.

If you're not at least a free member of the LAST Club, you're missing out!

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Full Members were those who chose to go more in-depth for one or both of the "seasons" of the LAST Club. Some...

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