Qualifications Bachelor of Architecture(Hons)- Sydney University Master of Town & Country Planning- Sydney University Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management- Mitchell CAE Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Management Consultancy- Henley Management College Doctorate in Business Administration- Henley Management College/Brunel University Lynn Crawford is involved in project management practice, education, and research and is Professor of Project Management at both the Lille Graduate School of Management (ESC Lille), France and Bond University, Australia. Through Human Systems, she works with leading corporations that are developing organizational project management competence by sharing and developing knowledge and best practices as members of a global system of project management knowledge networks. She is currently involved in ongoing research on project and program management competence, and specific research projects on management of business change and differences in project management practices across project types and industries. Lynn provided the Australian contribution to an internationally conducted project on The Value of Project Management and results of other completed research projects have been published as Project Categorization Systems: Aligning Capability with Strategy for Better Results, Situational sponsorship of projects and programs: an empirical review; and Exploring the Complexity of Projects: Implications of Complexity Theory for Project Management Practice. Professor Crawford has been actively engaged in the development of global standards for project management since the late 1990’s and has been instrumental in the formation of the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS).
Articles
Portfolio management: The Australian experience (with Aileen Koh), Project management journal (2012)
The increasing use of projects and programs by organizations to achieve business strategy and goals...
Competencies for managing change (with Anat H. Nahmias), International journal of project management (2010)
Organisational changes are recognised as a specific project type that can benefit from the application...
Project management systems: Moving project management from an operational to a strategic discipline (with Terry J. Cooke-Davies and Thomas G. Lechler), Business papers (2009)
This article illustrates one aspect of the concept of fit between an organization's implementation of...
Government and governance: The value of project management in the public sector (with Jane Helm), Business papers (2009)
Governance is an emerging theme that has been associated in the public sector with a...
Developing a basis for global reciprocity: Negotiating between the many standards for project management (with Julien Pollack), Business papers (2008)
Professional standards are a significant issue for professions such as IT and Project Management, where...
Books
Exploring the complexity of projects: Implications of complexity theory for project management practice (with Svetlana J. K. Cicmil, Terry J. Cooke-Davies, and Kurt A. Richardson), Business papers (2009)
Exploring the Complexity of Projects: Implications of Complexity Theory for Project Management Practice explores the...
Situational sponsorship of projects and programs: An empirical review (with Terry Cooke-Davies, Brian Hobbs, Les Labuschagne, Kaye Remington, and Ping Chen), Business papers (2008)
In recent years, attention has been called to the importance of having a project or...
Book Chapters
Beyond competence: Developing managers of complex projects (with Ed Hoffman), Aspects of complexity: Managing projects in a complex world (2011)
Considerable attention and development activity has been devoted over the last 20 years to determining...
The role of the PMO, Advanced project management (Vol. 2) (2010)
For more than 50 years the so-called modern project management has been a continuously growing...
Global body of project management and knowledge, The Wiley guide to project organization and project management competencies (2007)
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This chapter presents an overview of the current principal project management standards and...
Professional associations and global initiatives, The Wiley guide to project organization and project management competencies (2007)
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Communities of practice (Wenger, 1998) are formed when people doing similar things realize...
Developing individual competence, Gower handbook of project management (2007)
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The competence of project management personnel is a subject of concern to businesses...
Conference Papers
Building capability for disaster resilience (with Craig Langston and Bhishna Bajracharya), 28th Annual Conference of Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) (2012)
All levels of government recognise the widespread devastation of communities by natural or other disasters....
A vision for a longer-term future: From project managers to “synthesists”? (with Alan Stretton), 25th IPMA World Congress. Project management - Delivering the promise (2011)
This paper first gives a snapshot of how some articulate contributors to a broader future-oriented...
Comparing apples with apples: Aligning project management capability with corporate strategy, 25th IPMA World congress. Project management - Delivering the promise (2011)
It makes little sense for an organization to invest in project management systems that are...
Extending the project management skillset to encompass change implementation, 25th IPMA World Congress. Project management - Delivering the promise (2011)
Project management standards address change control but are largely silent on change implementation. As the...
Adding change implementation to the project manager's toolkit, 8th Annual Project Management Australia (PMOz) conference (2011)
All change initiatives can be considered as projects or programs and the majority of projects...