Who is Zen Ex Machina?

Zen Ex Machina helps corporates and government agencies to develop digital products and experiences that their clients, stakeholders love to use.

What we do:

• Strategy — developing the strategy to implement your program or project from business case through to initiation, development and deployment.
• Agile (Scrum) coaching — because we love to teach our clients to be as agile as we are so they can more effectively manage their business programs and IT projects. We've coached government agencies as well as corporates in the use of Scrum in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Wellington.
• Social media strategy — from small business to government agencies
• Websites — from small business to enterprise-level intranets and internets using responsive design
• Citizen- & User-Experience (UX) design — encompassing strategy, planning and delivery using user-centred, Agile (Scrum) & Lean deployment and execution methodologies
• Usability & accessibility assessments — for digital products & platforms based on a decade of experience working with WCAG and government
• Application strategy & planning — from enterprise architecture to mobile deployment
• Application development — Mobile, custom apps & rich internet applications

What's happening at Zen Ex Machina?

• UX strategy for the Department of Innovation We've delivered a UX architecture and strategy to help citizens more easily discover the agency's information and services, encompassing Personas, wireframes, and a strategy to restructure their websites and make deployment easier through the use of microsites.
• Usability testing in a Scrum environment for the ACMA ZXM has completed usability testing for a business-critical Scrum project in the ACMA employing heuristics, expert review and cognitive walk-thru in a single Sprint to deliver improvements to the UX for subsequent Sprints.
• Whitepaper - Agile adoption in governmentWe've released a Whitepaper on adoption of agile methods like Scrum within government contexts. Request your copy here.
• We're on Federal Government Panels. We're on the Department of Finance whole-of-government ICT Management Consultants Multi-Use List, so now it's even easier for our Federal Government clients to access our services.