CHAPTER UPDATE

October 2020

Hope you are able to join this week's PMIWV virtual Conference!

See the 2 day agenda here!

Register here!

You can find information and register for our chapter and branch events on the chapter website.  Here's a list of upcoming events:

2020 Project Management Virtual Conference Event Theme:  Powering the project economy - being successful in the new paradigm of people, processes, and business environment. The 2020 Project Management Conference will be held on October 1 and 2, 2020, Thursday and Friday mornings, from 7:30 am to 12:00 noon. Our event line up will include keynote speakers, presenters, and sponsors. Virtual Event through GoToWebinar Event Date: October 1st and 2nd, 2020

PMI Global Conference North America Global Conference is the annual event for professionals in project management. In just three days, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, share insights, and network with thousands of like-minded professionals globally. Take advantage of your chance to earn up to 18 PDUs to help maintain the certification that you've worked for! When you leave, you’ll bring with you knowledge and skills you can apply as soon as you're back to work. Event Date: 10-17-2020

Morning Virtual Coffee Talk - October Take a morning break with your peers in the project management community. Join us for a virtual coffee discussion, hosted by Eugene Branch President, Jay Arrera.  Bring your war stories, project challenges, and successes to share with the group. Event Date: 10-19-2020 9:00 am Location: Virtual Platform

Project High Notes: Alan Mallory PMI Columbia River Basin Chapter Presents: An upbeat and educational journey exploring the internal, interpersonal, and external factors that affect project teams. Hear from popular national speaker Alan Mallory at this live virtual event!    Event Date: 10-13-2020 4:30 pm

PMI Virtual Experience Series: A Deep Dive in Business Analysis Drawing a Map to the Future In this fast paced world, alignment between business needs and recommended solutions more important than ever — for efficiency, benefit realization, and client satisfaction. The practice of business analysis is critical to executing effective projects, promoting beneficial outcomes strategies. Project managers are honing their business analysis skills, and applying a hybrid approach to implementing projects and programs. This virtual event will explore the latest trends in business analysis, delivering the tools to help you advance your career and enhance the success of your projects. Event Date: 11-12-2020

Important Update for PMIWV Chapter Membership Renewal!

With PMI's website changes, they no longer automatically offer you concurrent Local Chapter renewal when you are renewing your annual PMI membership.  Once you are logged in to https://www.pmi.org/, the best method is to first purchase the PMI renewal on or before your renewal date and then go back to the PMI main page.  Click on the Membership Tab and then select Local Chapters.  From there you can join/renew the PMIWV Chapter by adding it to the cart and proceeding to checkout.  PMI says they are working on reinstating concurrent renewal, so until then we'll have to do it in two steps.

Job Opening!

Oregon Employment Department Modernization is seeking an ISS8 Program Manager (Program Portfolio Manager) to lead our project management activities through the life of the Modernization Program and its various projects. See details here.

Recent Articles from ProjectManagement.com

• The Truth About the Agile/Hybrid Divide
  Critics on both sides of the agile/hybrid aisle seem to be somewhat jaded and often misinformed. The truth is that successful project managers have always used what works best given the situation. Thus, long before the term "hybrid" found its way into the vernacular, it has always been the way most PMs have operated.
• Are You Choosing Your Way of Working?
  As more organizations recognize (and research confirms) the high-performance benefits of empowering project teams, how do we balance the general value of standardized agile approaches with the greater need for teams to choose their ways of working?
• What About Sprint Creep?
  Scope creep can plague projects where timelines are established at the start, or budgets and resources are fixed. However, it should not be a problem for projects operating with agile principles. Rather than resisting change, an agile team welcomes it, and figures out how to adapt to it. Here's how.
• A New Litmus Test for Agile in 2020
  When should we be using an agile approach for our project? The agile convert might claim "Always," just as the predictive enthusiast could scream "Never!" For the rest of us, more objective tests and selection criteria are useful.
• Danger: Waterfall Approaches
  There is no such thing as a pure waterfall implementation unless you are peering through nature's lens-and there is no such thing as a pure agile implementation unless you are gazing through a lens of your own making.

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