Darren Dalcher

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]

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

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]

• Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management, awarded for outstanding contributions to the practice and discipline of project management^[8]
• Chartered Fellow, British Computer Society^[9]
• Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
• Fellow, Chartered Management Institute^[10]
• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
• Professional Member, Institute for Systems Engineering
• Senior Member, IEEE
• Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
• Member, INCOSE
• Member, Project Management Institute
• Member, Academy of Management
• Member, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery.
• Member of the PMI Advisory Board responsible for the David I. Cleland project management award and of the APM Professional Development Board.
• Named Academic of the Year by Project magazine,^[11]
• Named one of the top 10 "movers and shapers" in project management by the Association for Project Management^[12]
• Named one of the five leading thinkers in project management and global development, bridging the gap between academic theory and real-world project execution, by the Nation^[13]

• Successful IT Projects, Thomson Learning, 2007.^[14][15]
• Advances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Uncharted Territory, Routledge, 2016.^[16]
• Further Advances in Project Management: Guided Exploration in Unfamiliar Landscapes, Routledge, 2017.^[17]
• The Evolution of Project Management Practice: From Programmes and Contracts to Benefits and Change, Routledge, 2017.^[18]
• Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change, Routledge, 2018.^[19]
• APM Body of Knowledge, 7th Edition, Association for Project Management, 2018.^[20][21]
• Leading the Project Revolution: Reframing the Human Dynamics of Successful Projects, Routledge, 2019.^[22]
• APM Body of Knowledge, Revised 7th Edition, Association for Project Management, 2022^[23].
• Rethinking Project Management for a Dynamic and Digital World, Routledge, 2022.^[24]
• Getting Started with Tech Ethics: An introduction to ethics and ethical behaviours for IT professionals, BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT, 2025.^[25]