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Professor Darren Dalcher of NCPM to chair APM Conference
The annual APM Conference on 27 June 2012 will be investigating and celebrating project management as 'The Art of the Possible'. The conference will again be chaired by Prof Darren Dalcher of NCPM.

Projects and programmes, by their very nature, deliver that which has yet to be proven possible - a new and innovative design, an upgraded or more reliable product or service, a more efficient way of working, a programme of transformational change, or a record-breaking building. Each project has different stakeholders, expectations, issues, risks, opportunities, challenges and outputs, making achievement a triumph of the art of the possible.

The conference will include interactive sessions, multiple streams, an array of influential speakers, and the opportunity to network with other professionals and organisations.

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Professor Darren Dalcher awarded Honorary Fellowship of APM

Founder and director of the National Centre for Project Management, Professor Darren Dalcher, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Association for Project Management (APM).
Darren is active in numerous international committees, steering groups and editorial boards and is heavily involved in organising international conferences, delivering many keynote addresses and tutorials. He has written and contributed to over 150 papers and books on project management and systems engineering and is the editor of the Gower book series, Advances in Project Management and Fundamentals of Project Management.

Darren’s research interests include: project success and failure; project management maturity models; capability and competence; agile, extreme and lean project management; benchmarking; risk and opportunity management; knowledge management; project ethics and corporate responsibility.

He has built a reputation as leader and innovator in the area of practice-based education and reflection in project management and has worked with many major industrial and commercial organisations and government bodies. He received international recognition in 2009 with appointment as a member of the PMForum’s International Academic Advisory Council, which includes leading academics in project management from some of the world’s top universities and academic institutions. The Council showcases accomplished researchers, influential educators shaping the next generation of project managers and recognised authorities on modern project management.