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.

Early life He earned a PhD in Software Engineering from King's College London.

Career He is involved in organising international conferences, and has delivered many keynote addresses and tutorials, including PMexpo, BIS conference 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.

Honours Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management, awarded for outstanding contributions to the practice and discipline of project management Chartered Fellow, British Computer Society Chartered IT Professional (CITP) Fellow, Chartered Management Institute 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, Named one of the top 10 "movers and shapers" in project management by the Association for Project Management 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

Published books

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