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Much thanks to everyone who participated in the survey.

The ESC Lille survey will close on December 15. If you have not yet completed it, please go to http://www.executive-pm.com/ right now. It takes between 30 and 60 minutes, and can be done by anyone who has served in the role of a project manager.
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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 [...]

Project management is not yet a profession. One barrier to becoming a profession is the lack of a unique, well-defined body of knowledge. This editorial explores the issue and lists a few knowledge areas, tools, and techniques that could serve as the start of a unique body of knowledge.

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 [...]

This presentation will describe how to adapt standard, career-guidance tools to Project Management. It is never easy making a career recommendation, but these tools can help make a better-informed, more objective recommendation. Experienced Project Managers can use these tools to better understand their management style, and help predict what assignments and situations may be particularly easy or difficult for them. Core skills like negotiation and mentoring, and personality traits like Introvert/Extrovert are critical to job. Learn how to adapt some time-tested tools to Project Management, to understand yourself better and to guide others more objectively.

Presented at the PMI/NJ 2002 Regional Symposium on May 6th, 2002 in Edison, NJ.

Reviews nine distinct elements that make a job a “profession”. Explores the ways that project management and software engineering are and are not “professions”.

Delivered as a Toastmasters International speech #3 (Organize Your Speech) from the Communication and Leadership handbook in October 2001.