About the Authors
Charles I. Budd (Chuck) is a principal of Budd Management Systems
in Atlanta, Georgia. His career began in computer programming and grew
into executive management. He has been CEO of Financial Information
Trust in Des Moines, president of International Computer Systems, Inc., in
Akron, president of Technology Connections, Inc., in Atlanta, senior
project manager for Softlab Enabling Technologies, also in Atlanta, and
operations vice president for Intercontinental Computing, Inc., in Kansas
City.
He is a Project Management Professional and currently is developing
project management automation tools, consulting on information systems
projects, conducting seminars, and writing with his coauthor, Charlene
Budd. He has taught webinar classes and conducted workshops and
presentations around the world. Some of his international consulting
engagements included major Y2K remediation projects in the United
States, Germany, and South Africa, where he began using earned value
management concepts.
Chuck is active in several civic volunteer organizations, the Project
Management Institute, and information systems organizations. He is a
graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, has been certified as a systems
analyst by the Foundation for Administrative Research, attended MBA
classes at Drake University, and has a graduate degree from Baylor
University.
Charlene Spoede Budd (Charli), PhD, is professor emeritus of
accounting at Baylor University, where she has taught graduate
management accounting and graduate project management classes. She has
a PhD in business administration and holds certifications as a CPA, CMA,
CFM, and PMP, and in all six professional categories of the Theory of
Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO).
Her research has been published primarily in practitioner journals, and
she has been awarded three Certificates of Merit for articles (one of which
explained why multiproject management is an essential skill for
management accountants) published in Strategic Finance. She also has
published in Today’s CPA, The Counselor, other journals, and many