PMI Silicon Valley Chapter

We are now inviting submissions from speakers who wish to participate in this year’s event. The program will include approximately twenty presentations in two tracks. Presentations will be scheduled for 55 minute time slots. Submissions are due by July 20, 2013.

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The desire for fewer failures and speedier success is driving the rapid adoption of the Scrum process framework, and the increasing need for Scrum Masters who can make agile projects successful. Scrum is designed from the start to improve responsiveness to customer needs, reduce wastage, and reduce time to market.

Project Managers working with Agile projects must understand how requirements are generated and planned, and are often responsible for producing them. This workshop addresses this need by covering basic and advanced requirements management for Scrum projects. It provides a mix of lecture and hands-on practice for all of the skills a Product Owner or ScrumMaster needs to master.

Requirements always drive the project. Learn how to manage requirements, and become an Agile driver today.

Getting results is the goal of project managers. The process of making this happen starts with defining a purpose, forming a vision, and working through mission and goals to deliver outputs, preferably outcomes desired by the customer or client. In practice, many steps are missed or skipped, and stakeholders resist. This session traverses the journey from vision to reality, defining terms, sharing examples, and illustrating how negotiating skills are crucial to the process. The net outcome for participants does not require learning a whole new process; rather you come to embrace accountability as a vital tool and adopt a mindset about key concepts and techniques that make you more complete—and immediately effective—as a project manager.

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Are you seeking the missing ingredients to move from good to great? To bridge the gap between strategy and execution? Are you looking for the next generation of skills, mindsets, and processes to transform your performance as a project manager, team member or sponsor? Are you ready to transform yourself…and then your organization?

Fill up your toolkit to integrate knowledge and skills that make the difference in achieving optimized outcomes, increased satisfaction, and bottom-line results. The experienced presenter employs a storytelling approach to demonstrate what, why, and how of applying soft project management skills in areas of leadership, stakeholder management, humor, organization, environment, negotiations, politics, sales, and above all else—attitude. Organic metaphors illustrate memorable, action oriented concepts, based on real experiences, leading to immediately applicable action steps.

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Today’s technologies such as SharePoint, Google Docs, and Webex offer unique opportunities for project teams to more effectively collaborate both locally and around the globe, yet many of our project team meetings continue to be boring presentations and update reports that fail to move the project forward. During this hands-on session, using a unique collaboration technology, we will review six patterns of collaboration and learn how each pattern can be used to improve team productivity. By understanding some basic collaboration concepts and learning a few simple techniques, participants will leave the session with the tools to help them effectively “mine the wisdom” of their team.

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Judy Lee describes the changing world of project management, which is moving from a focus in the defense, construction, and IT industries to a global discipline used in most functional and professional areas. Judy shares the perspective of both CIO and business managers, as well as the economic and technology drivers behind this disruptive and rapid shift in project management. Her focus is on the need for project management professionals to reposition themselves, and broaden their knowledge and skills, to survive and thrive in this disruptive change.

Take-Aways:
• Understand the causes and pace of project management’s changing role in organizations and business operations.
• Learn how project management is expanding globally, and new, emerging project management roles and opportunity.
• References and resources to help project managers prepare for the changes ahead.

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