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Professor
Darren Dalcher is founder and Director of the National Centre
for Project Management, a Professor of Software Project Management
at Middlesex University and Visiting Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Iceland.
Professor
Dalcher has been named by the Association for Project Management
as one of the top ten "movers and shapers" in project
management. He has also been voted Project Magazine's Academic of
the Year for his contribution in "integrating and weaving academic
work with practice".
Following
industrial and consultancy experience in managing IT projects, Professor
Dalcher gained his PhD in Software Engineering from King's College,
University of London. In 1992 he founded and has continued as chair
of the Forensics Working Group of the IEEE Technical Committee on
the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, an international group
of academic and industrial participants formed to share information
and develop expertise in project and system failure and recovery.
Professor
Dalcher is active in numerous international committees, steering
groups and editorial boards. He is heavily involved in organising
international conferences, and has delivered many keynote addresses
and tutorials. He has written over 150 papers and book chapters
on project management and software engineering. He is Editor-in-Chief
of Software Process Improvement and Practice, an international
journal focusing on capability, maturity, growth and improvement.
He is the editor of a major new book series, Advances in Project
Management, published by Gower Publishing, which synthesises
leading edge knowledge, skills, insights and reflections in project
and programme management.
Professor
Dalcher's research interests include: project success and failure;
project management maturity models; capability and competence in
project management; agile, extreme and lean project management;
project management benchmarking; risk and opportunity management;
decision making; knowledge management; project ethics and corporate
responsibility; chaos and complexity; leadership in projects; change
management; evidence-based practice; and, reflective project management
practice. He has built a reputation as leader and innovator in the
area of practice-based education and reflection in project management.
He works with many major industrial and commercial organisations
and government bodies in the UK and beyond.
Professor
Dalcher is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and
the British Computer Society, and a Member of the Project Management
Institute, the Academy of Management, the Institute for Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
He is a Chartered IT Practitioner. He is a member of the PMI Advisory
Board responsible for the prestigious David I. Cleland project management
award, and of the APM Professional Development Board.
Contact
details
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 5313
Email: d.dalcher@mdx.ac.uk
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