Online Webinar  – Recorded July 29 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

All projects are tactical. And as a result, project managers are trained as tacticians, tactical thinkers.

However, all projects start as part of an overall strategy for the organization; each project is a step toward achieving one of the organization’s strategic goals. Successful projects never lose the strategic vision of which the project is a part.

Recommendations, decisions, actions taken all have to have some sense in light of the strategic impact of those decisions or actions.

Presenter: Steven P. Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA (LinkedIn profile) is an author, consultant, teacher and coach  and has over 45+ years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. Specializing in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment; he develops business analysis and agile processes and trains business analysts, project managers, and executive for organizations around the world.   Steven is the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a contributor to the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), V3 (IIBA, 2015).

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The Business Analyst & Strategic Thinking

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Online Webinar  – Recorded March 8th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

This webinar will introduce you to enterprise business architecture, including enterprise-wide analysis and drilling down into the business architecture.

A key objective of the session is to provide insights to business decision makers in analyzing the overall organization and business environment and to help them to make informed decisions around business strategies.

Topics will include:

• Business architecture organizational maturity and roles
• Understand the enterprise and business architecture key concepts
• Bodies of knowledge and frameworks
• Common architectural building blocks
• Set the stage: understand the business
• Create a roadmap
• Build the knowledge base
• Use the business architecture

This webinar is geared towards project managers, business analysts, business or functional managers, product and process owners,  program managers, as well as solution architects.

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile),, MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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What Is Enterprise Business Architecture?

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Online Webinar  – Recorded February 26, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Outages are planned shutdowns of plants for maintenance, including preventative maintenance and defects. Preventative maintenance works have pre-defined scope, a job plan and resource requirements built into a maintenance management system.

The problematic area is corrective maintenance scope (i.e., defects). Defects often result in significant increase in outage scope, known as scope creep.

Scope creep is a serious challenge that outage managers, outage engineers and planners face before and during an outage.

In order for us to manage it, it is necessary to understand what scope creep is—and what its causes are.

If the root causes are taken care of, the problem will be solved by itself!

In the webinar Naveed Rabbani (LinkedIn profile) will discuss this in detail based on practical experience and will be followed by Q&A.

Learning outcomes: 

• How to effectively manage and control changes in outages
• How to manage scope during an outage
• How to limit schedule, cost and scope variances

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How To Manage Scope Creep In A Power Plant Outage

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Live Webinar September 1st, 2021, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Stakeholder pressure drives boards of directors to pay greater attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. CIOs must be aware of what ESG is and how it differs from sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR). CIOs should be prepared to inject data and insight that will help the enterprise improve access to capital, cost of capital, operating costs and ultimately stock performance.

In this webinar Kristin R. Moyer (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst;  Simon Mingay, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst; & Sarah Watt (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst; will address what you need to know about ESG and how it can benefit your organization

Discussion Topics:

• Why you need to focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues
• How ESG differs from sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• What role CIOs should play in addressing ESG initiatives

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What Boards Need From CIOs On
Environmental, Social & Governance Initiatives

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