Where a weekly team lunch trumps another Teams call

TL;DR

• Notitia's Adelaide team is in the office together twice a week, works from home the rest of the time, and has lunch together (on Notitia) every week.
• Gabe, Ben, Gui and Liv work across analytics and web development, so they don't always share a project. When they do, the handover between roles is where the work is won or lost.
• Smooth handovers, clear communication and problem solving come from people who know and trust each other, not from a process document.
• That's why we invest heavily in collaboration: office days, offsites and team sessions throughout the year.

Meet our Adelaide crew

Here's our Adelaide crew at yesterday's weekly team lunch (on Notitia, of course).

It's one of the most important meetings of the week, even though nobody brings a laptop. Between the ramen and the bento boxes, there's usually a conversation that saves someone a few hours later in the week.

Left to right:

• Gabe (Gabriel Ianhez Pereira dos Santos), Analytics Consultant. He went from data science to hospitality and back to analytics, and he brings that customer-facing experience to every client conversation.
• Ben (Ben Cuttance), Developer. A former nurse turned full-stack developer. Ask him why there's always a whole team behind a tech project.
• Gui (Guilherme Matte), Senior Analytics Consultant. He's focused on building analytics capability inside client teams, so the work keeps delivering long after we've handed it over.
• Liv (Livia Gu), Senior Web Developer. She believes confidence in tech comes from doing, and she's supported developers like Ben through exactly that.

How we invest in collaboration as a hybrid team

Our teams are in the office together twice a week, and we come together throughout the year for company-wide offsites and team sessions. The rest of the time, people can work from home.

We like the flexibility. But we're also honest about its limits. Video calls are great for getting things done. They're not great for the quick "hang on, have you seen this?" that stops a small problem becoming a big one.

One of the reasons our people do their best work is because we genuinely enjoy working together. That doesn't mean everyone needs to be in the same room every day. It means the time we do spend together is worth turning up for.
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So we invest heavily in collaboration:

• Office days where analysts, developers and designers can sit next to each other and work through problems in real time.
• A weekly team lunch, on us.
• An annual company offsite. This year the whole team headed to Queenstown, New Zealand and what skiing together taught us applies directly to project work.
• End of year celebration: Where our Melbourne and Adelaide offices come together
• Team sessions across our offices, so people who don't work together every day still catch up.

It shows. In our 2026 Great Place to Work® survey, 100% of our people said Notitia is a great place to work, and we scored 100% for camaraderie.

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Why good handovers make better projects

We don't all contribute to the same projects. Gabe and Gui might be deep in a Qlik environment for one client while Ben and Liv are building a web platform for another.
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The Adelaide crew doesn't work in a bubble either. They work closely with our Melbourne team, so a developer in Adelaide might be building on a data model an analyst in Melbourne put together, with both sides checking in as the work moves along.
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Our digital designers are part of that mix too. Carolina and Yuri work with our developers and our analysts, shaping how a dashboard or platform looks and works before anyone writes a line of code, then staying involved as it gets built.
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But when different roles work together, our focus is on smooth handovers, clear communication and problem solving.
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That matters because most data and digital projects don't fail on the technology. They stumble in the gaps between people. The analyst knows what the data can and can't do. The designer knows how people will actually use the screen. The developer knows what it'll take to build it properly. If those three conversations happen separately, the client pays for it later in rework.
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On an end-to-end project, a typical flow looks like this:

1. Our designers start by understanding how people actually work, using our design-led approach.
2. Our analysts work out what the data needs to look like to answer the right questions.
3. Our developers build it, checking back with design and data as they go.
4. The whole team hands over to the client in a way their own people can keep running.

As Ben puts it in his post on why collaboration matters in tech projects, design checks in with development, development checks in with data, and people help each other out. It sounds simple, but it takes practice.

How trust builds better collaboration

Good collaboration doesn't come from a process document. It comes from people who know and trust each other, and understand how to get the best out of each other's skills.
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It also connects to how we hire and how we work. Our values include Respectfully Challenge and Diversity of Thought, and our people come from all sorts of backgrounds. Ben was a nurse. Gabe worked in hospitality. Those experiences make them better at explaining complex ideas to clients, but only if the team around them is open to hearing different perspectives.
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When people trust each other, handovers stop being a risk and start being a strength. Questions get asked earlier. Problems get raised while they're still small. And clients get a team that works as one, not four specialists working in parallel.

Teamwork makes the dream work

We're proud of what our Adelaide crew delivers for clients across South Australia and beyond. A big part of that comes down to four people who genuinely like working together, and one free lunch a week.

Working on a data, analytics or digital project and want a team that talks to each other?

‍Let's have a chat. And if you'd like a seat at the lunch table yourself, keep an eye on our careers page.
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FAQ

How does Notitia's hybrid work model operate?

Notitia's teams work in the office together twice a week and can work from home the rest of the time. The whole company also comes together for an annual offsite and regular team sessions.

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Why does collaboration matter in data and digital projects?

Most projects involve analysts, designers and developers. Clear handovers between those roles reduce rework, surface problems earlier and help clients get solutions their own teams can keep running.
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Where is Notitia's Adelaide office?

Notitia's Adelaide team is based at the Lot Fourteen innovation precinct on North Terrace, Adelaide.
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What does Notitia's Adelaide team do?

The Adelaide team works across data strategy, analytics, business intelligence and web development, working closely with Notitia's Melbourne team and its digital designers.
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Is Notitia a good place to work?

In the 2026 Great Place to Work® survey, 100% of Notitia's people said it is a great place to work, with a 100% camaraderie score.

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