Chapter Meeting – Oct 2020: Manager’s Bridge to Agility

Non-Members $0, Members $0, Volunteers $0. 

Abstract:

The presentation focuses on the journey of a Project Manager or Manager in traditional waterfall work environment to an Agile way of executing projects. Many organizations today are touting their Agile Transformation and as teams of consultants and executives waive the Agile flag, the Project Manager is in the center of the transition. Business Agility promises efficiency, innovation and market velocity for entire enterprises. Project Managers, Middle Managers and project teams all must find their way to Agile Ways of Working.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand basics of Agile

2. Understand Agile Mindset

3. Understand ‘what changes’ when moving from waterfall to agile

Speaker:  Bhanu Viswanadha – PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SASM, SA, POPM, SDP, CDA, CDAP, TOGAF, KMP1 is currently working as IT Architect at NetApp

About the Speaker: 

Previous positions include Program Manager at a major retail and healthcare company and Technical Leader at APL Ltd. While he was the PMO manager at Safeway Inc., he implemented a process for recruiting, mentoring, and motivating the Safeway project management community. Mr. Viswanadha’s other projects include delivering a training program for project manager coaching/mentoring in both waterfall and Agile methodologies.  He has also been an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University, Cogswell University of Silicon Valley and he is a Past President at PMI Silicon Valley.  Bhanu is a PMI approved ATP Instructor. Bhanu has Masters in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India and Master of Technology in Mathematical Modeling and Simulation from University of Pune, India.

Meeting Agenda

5:45 - 6:00 PM   Gather and Information Exchange

6:00 - 6:20 PM   NCPMI Business Announcements

6:20 - 7:20 PM   Featured Presentation: “Manager’s Bridge to Agility”

7:20 - 7:35 PM   Q&A