2019 PMI-SVC Board of Directors Announcement

Elections and Nominations

The 2020-2021 term PMI-SVC Board of Directors (BOD) is about to start! The nomination and election process will take place mid-June. The BOD nomination, voting and election process will be conducted electronically. All PMI-SVC members in good standing will receive an email notification when the nomination and election periods commence.

Nominations for the Board of Director's positions will be open on Friday June 14, 2019. Be sure to check your email.

Questions? Contact the PMI-SVC Elections team at elections@pmi-svc.org 

Save The Date:  7/11/19 - 2nd Annual PMI-SVC Networking & Career Fair

Agenda: TBD

Registration will open Soon

Topic: A Modern Look At The Project Team
Speaker: Brian Melville
When: 6/13/19
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: Paesano's  - Portofino Room, 1806 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA 95811
1 Technical PDU Event

About The Topic: A Modern Look at the Project Team

Project Managers used to rule the roost.  We were the only game in town.  Projects lived or died by the Project Manager and we felt the pressure.  If a project failed, we got the blame, but if the project succeeded (as we always hoped it would), then we were the epic hero!

About The Speaker: Brian Melville is currently a project management consultant with Radian Solutions and an instructor with UC Davis

Brian Melville is currently a project management consultant with Radian Solutions and an instructor with UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education.  Brian has quite the hat collection – he has worked as an analyst, programmer, project manager, scrum master, program manager, organizational change manager, and engagement manager.  He has also consulted with government, financial, healthcare, retail and manufacturing clients. Brian’s professional mission statement is to, “develop organizations, teams, and individuals so they can deliver positive results through project, program and change management.”  He is a frequent speaker with the local chapters of PMI and the International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA).  He teaches Project Management, Business Analysis, and Agile classes.  When he isn’t busy hiking, playing strategy board games, or changing the world, you’ll find him babysitting and changing his new granddaughter’s diapers.  He says it’s all part of the mission statement.

Register Here

The PMI Sacramento Valley Chapter is proud to partner with Face-2-Face Events for the 6^th year in a row, as the INTERFACE Conference comes to Sacramento, on June 26^th!  This year’s event will be held downtown, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

For more information about this conference and to register for FREE, please see below:

INTERFACE Conference Sacramento 2019

IT Infrastructure is constantly changing, bringing more new challenges with it every day. From ransomware and the latest security threats, to needs for increased bandwidth and storage, it’s nearly impossible to keep up-to-date. Our conference is designed to help. We’ve assembled a combination of Best-in-Breed hardware and software solutions, along with local experts and organizations to help educate, advise, and connect you to resources that can help you meet your goals.

Covering IT Infrastructure, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, IT Security, and Enterprise Communications, you’ll find presentations, panel discussions and exhibitors covering a variety of topics, as well as, the latest innovations and best practices.

To find out more about the seminar schedule and exhibitors at the INTERFACE Sacramento Conference, please use the following link:

https://f2fevents.com/event/sac19/

To register for FREE to attend the INTERFACE Sacramento Conference as a guest of the PMI Sacramento Valley Chapter, please use the following link:

https://f2fevents.com/evite/sac19-pmi-sacramento/

Topic: Digital Transformation in Government

Speaker/ About The speaker: Udghosh Bhambore

TRANSFORM TO OUTPERFORM – summarizes Udghosh Bhambore’s expertise in leading legacy modernization projects, deploying leading digital technologies and building IT organizations while transforming them to outperform in their respective industries.  Udghosh is very experienced in many of the technologies from .NET, J2EE, Robotics Process Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.  He is PMP and CSM certified. He led Agile Projects as Master Scrum in a distributed environment with teams located in seven countries. He is a seasoned Executive with strengths in IT strategy, planning, application development, IT operations and maintenance.  He has international experience of managing global IT projects and operations while living and working in Asia, Europe and America. Currently he is living and working in Sacramento, California. He provides IT Advisory services to large California departments like CalPERS, CalSTRS, CDTFA, Department of Technology and others

About the Topic.

The Hoover Commission report on State of CA urged the state departments to adopt new digital techonlogies - Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics Process Automation. While these leading edge technologies are being deployed rapidly across private sector, their usage in public sector seems minimal.  In fact the savings and speed of Digitial transformation is needed much more in pubic sector organizations.

This presentation will introduce various technologies that play a role in digital transformation. It will discuss the typical domains and business processes, which will benefit from digital transformation. It will review the leading vendors, products and tools for digital transformation. It will provide a 7-step methodology for digitial transformation, which you can be used within your organization. It will review the case studies where such digitial tranformation have helped organizations become more efficient and effective

Date /Time: May 28, 2019 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (PDT) 
Location: Round Table Pizza, 7867 Lichen Drive (in Raley's Center),Citrus Heights - Phone: (916) 723-5910 

Topic:  User Story Patterns - Reading The Signage

Speaker: Michael Benning
Date: June 12, 2019 
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  
Where: VSP (Vision Service Plan), HQ5 Building   (Not the 6-story HQ1 building) 
Address: 3249 Quality Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 (No walk-ins, please see registration details below)   

Perks: Lunch provided (Thank you TEK Systems!), networking opportunities, one PDU earned (.5 Strategic, .5 Technical)

Description: Proficient Agile teams are able to define and apply the patterns of user stories most helpful to their process and product needs - creating a cartographic path to their goals. How can we help our teams expedite the journey to this backlog refinement Shangri La? Join Mike Benning (CSP-SM, ICP-APM, MFA) for a talk about traffic signs, teams, and user story fluency.

Speaker Bio:
Mike Benning (CSP-SM, ICP-APM, MFA) is an Agile Coaching consultant who helps organizations and teams deliver experiences that customers love. Mike has coached co-located, distributed, and remote Agile teams in government, non-profit, and education sectors. He's known to talk about Agile concepts at length.

Special Instructions: 

Attendees please plan to arrive between 11:45-11:55 to allow time for parking, check in, and getting food.  Due to time constraints, presentations will begin promptly at 12:00.  Note: Must arrive by 12:15 pm. Doors closed and no admittance after 12:15 pm) 

As a reminder, all in-person attendees must register:  

• Non VSP employees must register through the PMI website https://pmi-svc.org/events/register-for-an-event  (link) (If the registration button is not there, that means we are full)
• VSP employees must register by sending an email to PMI-Agile@vsp.com with Subject line of "I’m interested in attending this month’s PMI-SVC Agile Forum”
• If the PMI registration page says “We are no longer accepting registration…”, then we are at capacity for in-person attendees. However, registration is not required for attending via Webex, so feel free to join us remotely!

WebEx Info

PMI-SVC Agile Forum June: User Story Patterns - Reading The Signage
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2019 11:45 am | 1 hour 30 minutes | (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Meeting number: 621 131 472
Password: pCvBzDDa

https://pmisacramentovalleychapter.my.webex.com/pmisacramentovalleychapter.my/j.php?MTID=m384b38d90360c81c67b1fe21aeaf84ab

Join by video system
Dial 621131472@pmisacramentovalleychapter.my.webex.com
You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number.
Join by phone
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Access code: 621 131 472

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