Presentations

The presentations below are listed in order of development or presentation, beginning with the most recent. The presentations were created in MS PowerPointŪ and converted to Adobe Acrobat ReaderŪ format (.PDF). Click on the Adobe Acrobat logo to download the reader. Most of the presentations use animation for best impact, but that is lost in the PDF format; the slides are static. If you are interested in the native PowerPoint format versions, please contact DTI.

Rising from the Fog of Open Source
-- 2003 Computer & Information Law Institute
Overview of evolving models of Open Source businesses, key benefits and issues to be addressed by Open Source users and practitioners.

Receiving End of "open" ... whatever
-- 2003 Annual Conference of Licensing Excecutive Society
Overview of practices and thoughts for enterprises considering licensing-in Open Source Software, with particular focus on the need for clarification in the ongoing popular rhetoric.

Case Study in Royalty Accounting
-- 2003 Annual Conference of Licensing Excecutive Society
Overview of process, organization, systems, and operational decisions used to create a licensee-centered software royalty accounting operation for a large, complex systems manufacturer.

Software Engineering and IP
-- various clients
Looking at Intellectual Property issues as a context for software engineering - to be understood and acted upon in a non-threatening way.

Intellectual Property for Projects
-- Project Management Institute, Austin Chapter, 28 January 2003
A brief, practical introduction to intellectual property and its potential impacts on projects. Some content is directed toward a Project Manager familiar with the PMBOK of the Project Management Institute.

Price to Value: More than setting a dollar amount
-- ATC-Product Management & Marketing Forum, 14 November 2002
Various concepts and techniques for support product pricing with extensions and improvements in value to the customer.

Successful Transitions: Product, Models, Positioning, and Everything Else
-- ATC-Product Management & Marketing Forum, 16 May 2002
Successfully managing a product line through many changes starts by fundamental definitions and approaches where the entire lifespan of the product is one dynamic transition.

Software Productization and Commercialization for Systems Developers
Introduces the economic basis and some of the steps required for productizing a given piece of software technology for commercial distribution.