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Workshop Details
Half-day intensive workshop focused on reviewing your existing data architecture, identifying top issues, and creating optimization strategies. You'll leave with a prioritized 90-day action plan focused on the highest-ROI improvements for your business.
Next Steps Workshop
A comprehensive review and optimization session where you'll identify the highest-ROI improvements for your existing data infrastructure and create a strategic implementation roadmap.
- Comprehensive review of your company's data architecture
- Identify top issues affecting performance and refresh times
- Create architecture diagrams for optimization opportunities
- Learn proof of concept methods to avoid costly work
- Prioritize largest ROI tasks using don't boil the ocean approach
- Understand the value of inertia in capturing competitive ground
What is the outcome?
By the end of this workshop, you'll have a complete data architecture blueprint tailored to your business, a 90-day implementation roadmap, and the confidence to build data models that become true company assets. You'll leave with practical skills in Power BI, DAX, and SQL optimization that you can immediately apply to transform your organization's data into actionable intelligence.
Meet the Team behind the Data Plumbing Workshop
We are not just educators, we practice what we preach on a daily basis. When you engage with us you're getting real industry experience and knowledge that is applied to our own systems and our own active customer base
Instructor(s)
Joe Christensen 🗝️
Joe Christensen is the founder and Managing Partner of Aqueducts Consulting. He has been in F&O domain for 12+ years and maintains a burning passion for helping individuals & businesses succeed; while maintaining the highest degree of integrity. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional and at this point - a walking talking data dictionary for Microsoft F&O.
Master of Ceremonies
Nico DeLaO 🤖
Nico works for Aqueducts Consulting and has been in the ERP space for 10+ years. His career began as an implementation specialist, then a Product Director and in more recent years he has transitioned to Full Stack Web Development & AI Engineering using various technology stacks.
Contributors
Maidie Laurent 🎨
Maidie is a creative / artist & events coordinator, her artistry and organizational prowess is behind all of the outbound physical media for the company; as well as the booth designs for our conference events.
Bish Singh 🏗️
Bish has specialized in big data plumbing and data engineering for over 10 years across multiple stacks, currently working as the senior cloud engineer for Aqueducts Consulting using Azure based technologies.
Bhavana Nayak 📊
Bhavana specializes in data visualization and data storytelling through her role as a data engineer at Aqueducts Consulting. She has over 10 years of experience in the field and has deep knowledge of SQL, DAX, Power BI & the Dynamics F&O space.
Workshop Schedule
8:00 - 8:30 AM
Session 1Current State Assessment
- •Comprehensive review of your existing data architecture
- •Identifying top issues affecting performance and reliability
- •Reporting as operational intelligence foundation assessment
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Session 2Security & Performance Review
- •Security framework evaluation and gap analysis
- •Refresh times optimization opportunities
- •Performance bottleneck identification
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Session 3Architecture Optimization
- •Creating rough-cut architecture diagrams
- •Identifying optimization opportunities
- •Scalability and efficiency improvements
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Session 4ROI Prioritization Strategy
- •Don't boil the ocean: identifying largest ROI tasks first
- •Cost-benefit analysis of potential improvements
- •Strategic prioritization framework
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Session 5Proof of Concept Methodology
- •Proof of concept methods to avoid costly work
- •Risk mitigation strategies for new implementations
- •Testing and validation frameworks
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Session 6Attack Speed & Competitive Advantage
- •Capturing ground: the value of attack speed
- •Competitive advantage through rapid implementation
- •Agile optimization strategies
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Session 7Team & Resource Planning
- •People strategy and team optimization
- •Resource allocation for maximum impact
- •Skill gap analysis and development plans
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session 890-Day Action Plan & Project Roadmap
- •Creating your personalized 90-day action plan
- •Building your report backlog and project priorities
- •Reporting projects roadmap and implementation timeline
- •Q&A and next steps discussion
Workshop Summary
What's included
- Comprehensive review of your existing data architecture and security$350 value
- Identify and prioritize top issues affecting your system performance$300 value
- Receive rough-cut architecture diagrams with optimization opportunities$275 value
- Learn ROI prioritization strategies to avoid 'boiling the ocean'$250 value
- Master proof of concept methods to minimize costly implementation risks$225 value
- Understand attack speed value for capturing competitive ground$200 value
- Develop people strategy and team optimization plans$175 value
- Create prioritized report backlog and project roadmap$150 value
- Receive personalized 90-day action plan focused on highest-ROI tasks$150 value
- Get strategic reporting projects timeline and implementation guide$125 value
- Access optimization templates and best practice frameworks$175 value
- Dedicated consultation on operational intelligence integration$300 value
- Lifetime access to all future updates and content$450 value
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all listed prices are in USD. all listed workshop dates are subject to change, final venue & dates will be confirmed via email, with ~72 hours notice. all sales are final and non-refundable.