Alex Brown's Articles and Speeches

Introducing project management to an organization is hard work. By appealing to the strategists and the senior executives in your organization, it is possible to make project management grow and flourish.

This ground breaking speech is now available in easier-to-access formats. Learn how a company successfully used project management to purposefully move its strategic plan forward. Watch and listen to the speech now.

Hear one of my first speeches to put together strategic planning and project management. Hear the story of how a real company was able to implement its strategy through projects, and the unexpected benefits the company gained.

If you are passionate about uniting project management and organizational strategy, there is a new community for you. Join senior, experienced professionals for discussion and networking at the Strategic Project Managers Group on LinkedIn. Membership is open to all.

This two-minute joke was my first attempt to get audio and a slide show up on this web site. The joke is still pretty good, and it is easier to view in its new podcast and video formats. See the joke now…

A two-minute joke about a project manager and his team. The classic joke is not very nice to project managers, so this joke has a different ending.

Want more successful projects? Successful projects start with a great charter. This 2005 speech is now available in the podcast feeds and on this web site in a new, easier-to-access format.

This speech was delivered and recorded live for the PMI North America Congress on September 12, 2005. The entire 54-minute speech will play below, with slides synchronized to the audio, and it is also available as an audio or video podcast from this site. Available as a four-contact hour, four PDU on-line class through Real-Life [...]

Jennifer Russell asked, “Is there some way to skip past the introduction and get right to the main speech?” With the original video there was no way to do that, so I created a new version with “chapters” like in a DVD.

My gift to you this year is to fill the new audio and video podcast with great content. I already make several recorded speeches available for free on this site, and I will convert all of them to the new, easier-to-access format. I will also get one or two new speeches up on the web [...]