Business

You never leave your wingman! But how do you find a good one to begin with?

Attention leaders shaping the tech frontier! Join us for a dynamic session, 'Finding a Top Gun: How to Land and Keep Talent,' where we demystify the art and science of recruiting and retaining exceptional tech talent.

When trying to make the most of your career, determining what to prioritize can be difficult. You might find yourself asking questions like, "Should I prioritize my current clients? Should I look to new clients for growth?" At times, the list of questions and things to do may feel endless. This endless cycle causes frustration and burnout, resulting in the inability to make the most of our career. Whether it's growth problems, or feeling you've reached a plateau, this talk will help you to build awareness and intentionality into all your career decisions moving forward. 

Description

The contract is signed, the project team is defined, and goals are set. So you’re probably thinking, let’s kick the project off. Although it’s exciting to jump in and make progress on a new project, there’s a lot to think about before getting started.

Successful projects are a result of great partnerships, and it’s important to establish a strong project team and be on the same page from the start. In this session, we’ll cover the importance of:

• Business and client team building, including inclusion and transparency

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Your Requirements Sherpa: A Business Analysis Case Study

Description
It’s an all too common tale: your project is over budget and late to launch because of misunderstandings of what was intended to be built in the first place. There can be many causes of this, including the following: 

As the demand for digital technologists grows, finding top-tier, high-performing talent is an increasingly difficult task. The shortage of professionals in the development, design, and content fields has led to a landscape where large and small companies can't find who they need. Even still, the right person can be booked out for months.

How much is this going to cost? When will this project be done? How much longer do you need to close out that ticket? We hear these questions routinely as developers. But, how do you answer these questions?

Case studies are great sales tools. But how many times have you gotten ready to submit a pitch, and realized you were missing case studies for the projects you want to highlight? You assumed somebody on the team would write one after the projected deployed, but everyone got reassigned to other projects, and it slipped through the cracks, again. And now you are sad. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

In this session we'll review best practices for modules, content strategy, and site setup to enable you to measure success and user behaviors on your site.

The ultimate goal of a business is to increase their customers and the corporate website plays an important role in this process. Customer growth requires the lead generation and increased conversions. Higher numbers of web visits generate more leads - so this is a basic starting point in your business strategy to increase customers.

Many organizations use Drupal to build their websites today. It is essential for developers and marketers to have a basic understanding of increasing traffic to a Drupal website. This session will explore this topic in more detail.

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Your boss, client, or news anchor just announced it’s time to upgrade the technology stack:

"We choose to go to Moon Mars in this decade, not because it's easy, but because it is hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills..."

No! No! No!. . . let’s change the mindset here. 

In reality, no executive wants to work hard and wait a decade for success.