Presented at the PMI North America Congress in Atlanta, Georgia on October 8, 2007. Paper available on this site.
Explains key financial terms, including return on investment, time value of money, payback period, and first-to-market advantage. Applies these financial concepts to sample projects, to help project managers understand [...]
If you have ever worked as a project manager, please go and fill out this important survey about project managers and senior executives at www.executive-pm.com. I have been helping Russ Archibald, PMP and PMI Fellow, and Jean-Pierre Debourse of ESC Lille with the survey, and I think it can [...]
Toastmasters International has helped me over the years to become a better speaker and leader. As a way to give back to that community, I founded and am running a group on the LinkedIn business networking site for Toastmasters members. It will help them meet other Toastmasters all over [...]
Learn how project charters successfully bridged cultural gaps when making decisions among a community of Japanese and U.S. executives. Establishing a clear chartering process was the key to project management’s success at the company. The presentation will include templates and overviews of the processes established.
This speech was delivered and recorded live for the PMI New [...]
Even if you already know the one about the project manager and the genie, listen to this retelling and variation on that joke.
This new item is a first for this website in two different ways. It is the first joke on the site, and it is the first attempt to deliver slides and synchronized audio [...]
Alex S. Brown will be speaking at the PMI 2002 Symposium in San Antonio, TX. The paper “Of Benchmarks and Scorecards” was promoted from alternate to full presenter status. The speech will be at 9:45 a.m. on Monday, October 7th. Please stop by and introduce yourself if you will be at the conference.
Started a new series of articles, called “Real-Life MS Project”. This series
will explore real-life problems and solutions for MS Project users.–The first article deals with four techniques take back control of your
schedule from MS Project, by understanding its default behavior better, and
setting up the tool to meet your needs. This article was published in the [...]
Announcing some news at alexsbrown.com:
** On May 6th I spoke at the PMI/NJ Regional Symposium on the topic “Project
Management Personality & Skill Types”. The site has the paper as well as the
PowerPoint presentations.
** My article on the IEEE the Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP)
Program was published in the 2nd Quarter 2002 issue of the [...]
Announcing some news:
** The site now has “Design Your Build Process” up in the Articles area. It was published in the First Quarter 2002 ISSIG Review, the newsletter of the PMI Information Systems SIG
** I was selected to speak on May 6th at the PMI/NJ Regional Symposium on the topic “Project Management Personality & [...]
I have now set up my own web site. It currently features my resume, a published article that I wrote, and a speech that I gave. The focus of the site is on IT Project Management.
I plan to add more material about myself, and use it as a place to showcase material [...]