Online Webinar– Recorded August 10th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Elevating testing demands effective measurement to help quality teams understand progress, set goals, and communicate their impact.

But QA is virtually drowning in data; test results, sprint tracking, deferral rates, and bug density can all be gathered in a tester’s regular work. Quality teams need to decipher the right short and long-term signals to ensure their organization can deliver exceptional user experiences and see the maximum ROI from digital transformation.

In this 2 hour workshop, you’ll learn how to assess your current approach to QA key performance indicators (KPIs) and build a path to an effective measurement strategy.

You will understand your maturity compared to other organizations, find the right KPIs to communicate across your team, align those metrics to your organizational goals, and come away with a workbook to manage your measurement strategy moving forward.

Participants will:

• Assess their current measurement maturity
• Understand how to align QA strategy to organizational goals
• Learn strategies to positively influence core QA KPIs
• Takeaway a workbook to help them build on their measurement strategy

Presenter: Darrel Farris (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Architect at mabl, an intelligent test automation company. Prior to mabl, Darrel spent much of his career working in a variety of roles within product delivery,  focused on aspects of quality &  testing. His diverse technical experience and upbeat personality make him an engaging, compelling coach with a focus on nurturing good testing practices.

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Beyond KPIs: Measuring The Effectiveness Of Your Testing Strategy

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 14th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

1. Uncertainty remains the watchword in industries across the globe. What will happen next with the economy?
2. What new technology innovations, such as generative AI, will upend what we can do and how we operate?

Technology leaders across the public sector have a big opportunity to greatly influence the business strategy or government mission, helping to offset the impacts of inflation, an ongoing talent squeeze, and disrupted supply chains.

Join this cross-industry webinar as a panel of Gartner experts help technology leaders balance their immediate business concerns while enabling longer-term growth and change.

Discussion Topics:

• • Determine what will most impact business and government strategies heading into 2024
  • Find out what industries are doing to attract and retain IT talent
  • Balance short-term planning needs with longer-term strategic growth

Presenters:

1. Andrew Meyer (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst
2. Todd Kimbriel (LinkedIn profile) GartnerVP Analyst
3. Michael Ramsey (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst
4. Pete Redshaw (LinkedIn profile) GartnerVP Analyst

Return to the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

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Private & Public Sector IT Leaders, Lead Strategic Business Growth
2024 & Beyond

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 10th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Surveys are important tools for gathering the data we use for training evaluation, and they’re easy to compose, right? Wrong!

Survey respondents get frustrated with questions that don’t have response options that match their experiences, or confused by response options that are misaligned with question stems.

Poorly constructed rating scale questions are a particularly common phenomenon, even for experienced evaluators and survey designers!

Did you know that the rating scales we use with survey questions actually influence response?

This makes our decisions about which scales or which intervals to offer even more impactful. We also hold onto myths about how many scale points are best, how to label them, or whether to use an odd or even number of response options.

These beliefs prevent us from asking clear, easy-to-answer questions that yield meaningful, actionable data.

Join Sheila for real-world examples of survey questions, practice in identifying common rating scale problems, and some mythbusting, along with research-based strategies for designing high-quality rating scale questions.

Participants will be able to:

• identify common problems with survey rating scales
• identify common myths in rating scale design
• determine when to use an odd or even number of scale points in a given survey item
• determine when to use midpoints and non-substantive response options in rating scale items
• apply best practices for labeling rating scales

Presenter: Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., (LinkedIn profile) Custom Professional Learning, LLC, is a speaker, educator, and consultant with a passion for the science of teaching and learning, presentations, and asking questions. Through her talks, professional development workshops and university courses, Sheila teaches people how to make the most of professional learning and how to ask good questions, along with program evaluation, survey design, data visualization, audience engagement, and presentation design.  Sheila is also a Certified Presentation Specialist (CPS)™, Director of Education, Training and Advocacy at the Presentation Guild, and Senior Design and Facilitation Consultant with Evergreen Data.

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Survey Rating Scales Done Right:
Let’s Use Best Practices To Dispel The Old Myths!

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