Be Resilient
As Project Managers, we are resilient to challenges and often rise to the occasion through plan B's and C's. As we turn the page to a new year, PMISV will continue to host our monthly events virtually.
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Countdown to 2022 Annual Symposium
Upcoming Events
Upcoming events
PM Breakfast Meeting - San Mateo - Dec 2022
PMO Round Table Breakfast Meeting - December 2022
When: 14 December 2022, 7:30 am-9:00 am
Where: Virtual Meeting (Registrants will receive joining details from Meeting Leader)
The Chapter holds a Breakfast Round Table focused upon the PMO Practice and Operations once a month. This round table group provides a general forum to discuss various issues, problems, and challenges related to organizing, operating and managing a PMO within any organization. The format is open, with round-robin topics decided by the attendees each month.
If you are, or have been, involved in any of the following activities, this round table will be for you.
New Member Orientation Dec 2022
PMI Silicon Valley Chapter invites its new members to networking and an opportunity to learn about chapter activities and benefits from the leadership team.
SV Monthly Book Club: Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
Book of the month:
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone
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Date: Thursday, December 15, 2022 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Virtual
Host: Marc Scotchlas
Book Selection for December:
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone
Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder. In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents an “excellent” (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids. Definitive, timely, and “engaging” (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.
Registration
To attend the discussion forum, please pre-register (for free) and be sure you have pre-read the book of the month. Registration is necessary as we are limiting the gathering to 15 attendees, so that everyone has a chance to express their opinion and listen to others.
About the Event Leader
Marc Scotchlas will be the event leader and discussion moderator
Registration
- Required and limited to 15 attendees. First come first serve.
- Zoom link to be distributed to registrants on the day of the event.
Additional Information
EventLeader: Marc Scotchlas
PDU: Up to 5.0 PDU to complete the pre-reading; 1.0 to participate in the monthly meeting. PDU claim code available to attendees at end of event.
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Membership Statistics
| Total Members | 1739 |
| New Members This Year | 361 |
| PMP® Members | 1056 |
| PMI-ACP® Members | 88 |
| Members with no Certification | 646 |
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