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
Strategic drivers of delivery capacity, Annual project management Australia conference incorporating the PMI Australia national conference (PMOz): Building a global recovery (2010)
Recent research into the value of project management has highlighted the importance of 'fit' whereby...
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
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...
Developing project management capability of organizations (with J Rodney Turner), Gower handbook of project management (2007)
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In the realm of multiple projects and programmes, the need for organizational capability...
Conference Papers
Factors that influence and are influenced by change projects (with Anat H. Nahmias and Marge Combe), PMI research and education conference (2010)
Organizational changes are often achieved through disciplined project management. Change management and project management are...
Managing projects in context: Responding to strategic drivers (with Terry Cooke-Davies), PMI research and education conference (2010)
Project management as a field of practice initially focused on the standalone project and on...
Complexity and the paradox of project control. (with Svetlana Cicmil, Terry Cooke-Davies, and Kurt Richardson), IRNOP IX International research network on organizing by projects (2009)
During the past decade, there has been an increasing tendency to draw attention to the...
Governance and support in the sponsorship of projects and programs (with Terry J. Cooke-Davies, J. Brian Hobbs, Les Labuschagne, Kaye Remington, and Ping Chen), Business papers (2008)
Recent research has shown that project failure is often not directly attributable to the performance...
Project manager or change manager? Who should be managing organizational change? (with Anat Hassner-Nahmias), Business papers (2008)
Projects are an increasingly popular approach to instituting organizational change. But do project managers possess...