PMO Round Table Breakfast Meeting - Jan 2018

When:  10 January 2018, 7:30 am-9:00 am

Where:  Holder's Country Inn Restaurant, 998 S. De Anza Blvd, San Jose

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.

• Monitoring and Controlling Project Performance
• Developing Project Management Methodologies and Competencies
• Multi-Project Portfolio Management - Strategic Management, PMOs and Governance
• Organizational Learning - Communicating PMO Value

PMO Round Table meetings are open to anyone who is interested. The only cost is what you order from the menu, separate checks provided. 

Meeting Leader: Skip La Fetra, P.E., PMP, CSM, CSPO

Skip La Fetra is, as he says, "retired - remaining active". He delights in leading at the intersection of Development, Process, and Quality. Skip has 35 years of R&D Management, Project Management, and Quality Management experience in Silicon Valley technology industries, spending most of his career with Hewlett-Packard. He has worked in fields as diverse as Silicon-on-Sapphire integrated circuit development, various forms of Enterprise computing and Enterprise storage, Flash memory controllers, Product Regulations, and Quality.

Skip holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, is a licensed Professional Engineer, a PMP, CSM, and CSPO. He is also trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt process and quality advocate.

Skip has been an active member of the PMI-Silicon Valley chapter in a variety of roles since 2010. In addition to getting "quality time" riding his bicycle in the local hills, Skip hosts and manages the website for the Bicycle Mobile Hams of America (BMHA), an organization of ham-radio bicyclists. He is active with the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety as an Assistant Emergency Coordinator for SARES, a group of specialists who provide backup communications when needed.

About Monthly Breakfast Meetings: The PMISV Chapter hosts geographically dispersed Breakfast Meetings in San Francisco's Peninsula, South Bay and East Bay regions. Each meeting is a small gathering of project managers for a discussion of the current career environment, sharing of information and brainstorming on current challenges. The meeting's agenda is the topics brought by the attendees. Every meeting is facilitated by a Chapter Volunteer.

These breakfast & group events around the Bay Area are to support chapter members and the project management community. The chapter encourages professionals to attend and participate by bringing their questions and issues to their colleagues.

Contact Meeting Leader

PDU Info: -  1.5 - Category "Education - Informal Learning" -  PDU claiming instructions

Program Agenda:
7:30 AM - Program Begins
9:00 AM - Adjourn

Food: The only cost is what you order from the menu. Separate checks.

Registration: The registration is FREE for anyone interested. Walk-in welcome. Please register online in advance to help the Meeting Leader plan and arrange seats.