The Silicon Valley Project

The Silicon Valley Project speaker series present:

Communicating with Differently Thinking People
 

 

Event Description

Working virtually may become the new normal for many professionals. Managing remote teams is decidedly more complicated when the team members and stakeholders have vastly different communication styles. How do you align these diverse groups of people who work remotely and sustain productive team meetings, project status checks, and feedback sessions?

Join PMI Silicon Valley on July 7th to learn how you can harness your emotional intelligence and successfully communicate with differently thinking people to create a high-performing project team.

You'll learn to:

• Recognize the climate and mood of team members and stakeholders.
• Listen critically to find common ground to engage diverse team members.
• Adapt your communications and expectations to engage cooperation.
• Encourage thoughtful solution-focused collaboration.
• Provide effective feedback to remote working teams.

 

 

Speaker

Susan G. Schwartz, PMP
Instructor at UCSC Silicon Valley and UC Berkeley Extensions

 

 Registration (virtual access details to be distributed upon registration)

• PMISV Members: $5.00
• Non-members: $5.00
• UCSC Active Students: $5.00
• Veterans: Free (Request a veteran code to attend all PMISV events for free.)

  

Additional Information

Meeting Leader: Contact Rich Condon, PMP, PMI-ACP

PDU: 2.0 (1.0 - Strategy, 1.0 - Leadership)

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The Silicon Valley Project speaker series present:

Restarting Our Impulse to Build in Silicon Valley
 

 

Event Description

Nine years after tech investor Marc Andreesen celebrated the market dominance of Silicon Valley “software eating the world,” he laments that now, amid COVID-19, we couldn’t make cotton swabs and respirators to save our lives. As a result, this mecca of innovation has lost lives and jobs. The cause? Inertia. He points to a lost will to build.

Our journey back to the prosperity of the American dream requires the adoption of best practices—some that Silicon Valley has widely adopted in recent years and other trusty practices that few remember. There’s plenty that’s new, unexpected, and yet unknown in the work that humans must do. That work needs to be started, and done enthusiastically and well.

In this presentation we’ll explore how we can be part of the solution.

Topics

• Know and practice best practices.
• Is impossible really?
• Trust and collaboration are not empty words.
• Intelligence is not only AI.
• People still quit because of their boss.
• Nurture internal resilience.

 

 

Speaker

Hong Nguyen-Phuong
Amazon International Best-Selling Author and Instructor at UCSC Silicon Valley and UC Berkeley Extensions

 

 Registration (virtual access details to be distributed upon registration)

• PMISV Members: $5.00
• Non-members: $5.00
• UCSC Active Students: $5.00
• Veterans: Free (Request a veteran code to attend all PMISV events for free.)

  

Additional Information

Meeting Leader: Contact Rich Condon, PMP, PMI-ACP

PDU: 2.0 (1.0 - Strategy, 1.0 - Leadership)

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The Silicon Valley Project speaker series present:

Lean-Agile Principles to Drive Delivery of Business Value
 

 

Event Description

Project agility and Lean principles work together for delivering business value as fast and reliably as possible. What are the Lean-Thinking principles and tools behind most successful Agile processes?
Join us as we explore how to apply these principles and tools for continuously adapting and improving our Lean-Agile project processes for a wide variety of future requirements and circumstances.
We’ll review, examine, and discuss proven Lean-Thinking and Agile principles and tools to better understand how we can apply them for competitively delivering business value. We will also discuss how these ideas relate to the recent PMI thrust into Disciplined Agility Delivery (DAD).
In a lively online presentation with group discussions we will assess our present and proposed future Lean-Agile thinking values, processes, tools, and models for rapidly delivering the highest value to our stakeholders.

Takeaways

• Understanding the Lean-Thinking goal of fast flexible flow of value
• Realizing the benefits and core beliefs of Agile development
• How to use the value stream and Theory of Constraints to visualize and maximize flow of value
• Differentiating Scrum’s incremental vs. Kanban's continuous delivery of business value

 

 

 

Speaker

Frank M. Mangini, M.S.E.E., M.B.A., PMP®, PMI-ACP®, CSP®-SM
Instructor at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

 

 

 Registration (virtual access details to be distributed upon registration)

• PMISV Members: $5.00
• Non-members: $5.00
• UCSC Active Students: $5.00
• Veterans: Free (Request a veteran code to attend all PMISV events for free.)

  

Additional Information

Meeting Leader: Contact Rich Condon, PMP, PMI-ACP

PDU: 2.0 (1.0 - Strategy, 1.0 - Technical)

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The Silicon Valley Project speaker series present:

Branding You: Take Charge of Your Future
 

 

Event Description

The world of project management has expanded at a rapid pace, but now, in the midst of the pandemic and all the change it brings, we need to rethink our careers and take charge of branding ourselves to be successful in the future.

In this interactive online discussion with Marie Spark, MBA PMP®, a project management thought leader and mentor to adult learners and professionals in transition, you will explore tools, resources, and most importantly an understanding of the required mindset to handle the changes coming your way.

Learn what you need to survive and thrive amid new technologies, business disruption, the explosion of Agile techniques, and the increase in virtual collaboration. It all provides opportunities as well as challenges for both newcomers to the project management profession and experienced PM leaders.

Topics

• Trends in project management careers: power skills, recruiting, and more
• Professional development: how to stay in the continuous learning zone
• Agile trends: movement to the enterprise, virtual teams, and certifications
• The transformation of the PMBOK & PMP standards
• Professional responsibility: increased focus on ethics, diversity, and sustainability

 

 

 

Speaker

Marie Spark, M.B.A., PMP®
Director of the Project Management Graduate Program at Golden Gate University

 

 

 Registration (virtual access details to be distributed upon registration)

• PMISV Members: $5.00
• Non-members: $5.00
• UCSC Active Students: $5.00
• Veterans: Free (Request a veteran code to attend all PMISV events for free.)

  

Additional Information

Meeting Leader: Contact Rich Condon, PMP, PMI-ACP

PDU: 2.0 (1.0 - Leadership, 1.0 - Strategy)

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The Silicon Valley Project speaker series present:

All Things Disciplined Agile
 

 

Event Description

The world of project management has expanded at a rapid pace, but now, in the midst of the pandemic and all the change it brings, we need to rethink our careers and take charge of branding ourselves to be successful in the future.

In this interactive online discussion with Marie Spark, MBA PMP®, a project management thought leader and mentor to adult learners and professionals in transition, you will explore tools, resources, and most importantly an understanding of the required mindset to handle the changes coming your way.

Learn what you need to survive and thrive amid new technologies, business disruption, the explosion of Agile techniques, and the increase in virtual collaboration. It all provides opportunities as well as challenges for both newcomers to the project management profession and experienced PM leaders.

Topics

• Trends in project management careers: power skills, recruiting, and more
• Professional development: how to stay in the continuous learning zone
• Agile trends: movement to the enterprise, virtual teams, and certifications
• The transformation of the PMBOK & PMP standards
• Professional responsibility: increased focus on ethics, diversity, and sustainability

 

 

 

Speaker

Marie Spark, M.B.A., PMP®
Director of the Project Management Graduate Program at Golden Gate University

 

 

 Registration (virtual access details to be distributed upon registration)

• PMISV Members: $5.00
• Non-members: $5.00
• UCSC Active Students: $5.00
• Veterans: Free (Request a veteran code to attend all PMISV events for free.)

  

Additional Information

Meeting Leader: Contact Rich Condon, PMP, PMI-ACP

PDU: 2.0 (1.0 - Leadership, 1.0 - Strategy)

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The Silicon Valley Project speaker series present:

The Why, How to, and What’s next of Going Virtual - 

Learning the technology behind a great virtual meeting

 ♦♦ Preceding by PMISV Annual Business Meeting ♦♦
 

 

Event Description

In this virtual world we live and work in how are you delivering impactful content, managing all the technical challenges and conducting meaningful meetings for your valued clients and prospects?

In this online presentation, Chuck Hooper, recent dean of the Speakers Academy, gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the equipment, techniques, and best practices to manage virtual meetings confidently and competently. Join us to learn tips, tricks, and back-up plans for when your sound is not working or your internet connection suddenly drops and you, the meeting lead, are booted off the call.

Your takeaways

1. A checklist of affordable tools
a. Lighting: ring, box, small or large, color or white, placement
b. Microphones: WiFi, wired, or Bluetooth vs. ear pods vs. yelling!
c. Cameras: computer. DSLR, webcam, iPhone
d. More Advanced: switching controllers, eye glasses

2. Presentation skills needed to maintain audience or employee attention
a. Polls: size, timing, what to do with the results
b. Chats: good or bad?
c. Breakout rooms: when do they work?
d. Backgrounds: Follow the K.I.S.S. principle
e. Internet failure: Now what?

3. COVID-19 changes that have and might occur and how you might take advantage of them
a. Staying virtual as an option
b. Using more virtual after going live
c. New opportunities for different business models

 

 

Speaker

Chuck Hooper
Dean of the Speakers Academy for the Northern California chapter of the National Speakers Association

 

 

 Registration (virtual access details to be distributed upon registration)

• PMISV Members: Free for December
• Non-members: Free for December
• UCSC Active Students: Free for December
• Veterans: Free (Request a veteran code to attend all PMISV events for free.)

 

CHAPTER ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING: It is traditional that our Chapter will hold a short Annual Business Meeting at the beginning of the December event. Please note that the first 15 minutes of this webinar is dedicated for our Chapter President to present our 2020 annual business report and announcements. Annual Business Meeting Agenda: (December 1, 2020 6:00 - 6:15PM) Annual Report on the State of the Chapter Introduction of the recently elected 2020 Chapter Board of Directors Q & A  Our SVP event speaker, Chuck Hooper, will seamlessly start his webinar in the same Zoom meeting session immediately following the Annual Meeting.

   

Additional Information

Meeting Leader: Contact Gail Ferreira, PhD

PDU: 2.0 (Technical)

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The Silicon Valley Project speaker series present:

Disciplined Agile: Optimizing Your Business Agility

Event Description

Choosing your Way of Working

Join Scott W. Ambler, MS, vice president and chief scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute, for an informative presentation on the value of the Disciplined Agile tool kit and how to use it in practice with guided continuous improvement (GCI) across your entire organization.

The DA toolkit is the world’s only comprehensive agile body of knowledge that provides straightforward and practical guidance to help individuals, teams, and enterprises choose their way of working in a context-specific way. This guided continuous improvement is effectively a Kaizen loop on steroids.

Agenda

• Introduction
• How to choose the appropriate life cycle for the situation that we face. Should we take a Scrum-based approach, a SAFe approach, a lean/Kanban-based approach, a continuous delivery approach, or an exploratory/lean startup approach?
• What practices should the team adopt? How do they fit together? When should we apply them?
• What artifacts should the team create? When should they be created? To what level of detail?
• How do we evolve our WoW as we experiment and learn, or as our environment changes around us?

 

 

Speaker

Scott W. Ambler, is vice president and chief scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. He co-founded DA, which was acquired by the Project Management Institute in 2019.

 

 Registration (virtual access details to be distributed upon registration)

• PMISV Members: $5.00
• Non-members: $5.00
• UCSC Active Students: $5.00
• Veterans: Free (Request a veteran code to attend all PMISV events for free.)

  

Additional Information

Meeting Leader: Contact Gail Ferreira, PhD  

PDU: 2.0 (1.0 - Leadership, 1.0 - Strategy)

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