Darren Dalcher

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Darren Dalcher is a British engineer and senior academic. He is Professor in Strategic Project Management at Lancaster University Management School and Director of the National Centre for Project Management (NCPM) in the UK. [1]

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Early life

He earned a PhD in Software Engineering from King's College London. [2]

Career

He is involved in organising international conferences, and has delivered many keynote addresses and tutorials, [3] including PMexpo, [4] BIS conference [5] and others. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, and Editor of Routledge Frontiers in Project Management. He is the Academic Advisor and Editor of the APM Body of Knowledge, 7th Edition. [6] [7]

Honours

Published books

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  5. Keynote speakers - 20th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2017)
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