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.

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The presentation included a paper that was provided to everyone attending the Congress. This paper is available this site. Project charters are an important topic, and I continued writing about them after the speech. There is now a charter template available for your use, and some sample charters.