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Hosted by Sharon Barrington When: Thursday, October 15, 2020 Where: Virtual meeting via Zoom (link available on our MeetUp site) Individual Price: $5 fee waived this month Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm PDU: Technical 1.0 Program: How to Prevent Spectacular Project Failures Speaker: Avinash Patil Description: Projects fail at spectacular rates. Do you want to improve chances of success for your project? Do you want to learn to spot problems before they get out of hand? Join us on Thursday, Oct 15, at 7:00 pm for an interactive presentation with our guest Avinash Patil on how to prevent spectacular project failures. Avinash has introduced an innovative risk identification methodology to the software industry which helps identify big problems, fatal flaws in projects, programs, initiatives & improve changes of success of project. This methodology will help you identify risks, which cannot be found with traditional risk identification techniques. With this technique you can find risk and fatal flaws in the plan/project at the beginning of the project so that you will have time to act on those and improve changes of success of your projects. This technique has been used in many industries like oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals and construction which helped save 100’s of millions of dollars. Avinash has used this methodology extensively in the software industry with great success. This easy to use technique can be used in any industry or business and even in your personal life. Avinash Patil Bio: Avinash Patil possesses 20+ years of experience in managing complex global PMO’s, portfolios, and programs in enterprise and consumer products and services, with domain experience in SaaS, mobile Apps, transformations, and Cybersecurity. A “Stanford Certified Program Manager”, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Certified SaFE practitioner, and Kanban practitioner, Avinash has a “Master of Technology” degree from Mysore University, India. His corporate experiences include working with Hewlett Packard, Cisco & VMware. He is currently Staff Technical Program Manager, Portfolio & Program Management at VMware. Education Stanford Certified Program Manager – Stanford University, USA 2017 (SAPM – Stanford Advanced Program Management – 1-month intensive classroom-based training) Mini MBA for Tech Executives – Questrom School of business, Boston University, USA 2018 MTech (MS) Digital Electronics and Communication systems, Mysore University, Mysore, India 1992 BE (BS) Electrical Engineering: Shivaji University Kolhapore, India 1987 Agile Certifications Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certified SAFe Practitioner (Scaled Agile) You can always find us at: https://www.meetup.com/PMI-MontereyBay/ https://www.facebook.com/PMIMontereyBay/ https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6602417/ https://www.instagram.com/pmi_mbay/