The Silicon Valley Project

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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