People

Academic staff profile

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