The other Earned Value
In his presentation to #eVa20 Peter Morris will argue that “Value is what projects should be creating for their sponsors. Earning is getting properly rewarded for doing so. Analysis is trying to think this through.”
Peter has been in the forefront of developing richer, enlarged views of what the discipline should be doing for many years. In his latest book, ‘Reconstructing Project Management’, outlines the development of the discipline to date, analyses its component parts, and suggests how it will develop.
Peter will examine the nature of the discipline in two challenging situations:
- preparing for climate change, and
- aligning the project to the sponsor’s needs.
Biography
Peter Morris is Professor of Construction and Project Management at University College London (UCL). He is the author of over 120 technical papers and of the books Reconstructing Project Management (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and The Management of Projects (Thomas Telford, 1994) and, with George Hough, of The Anatomy of Major Projects (John Wiley & Sons, 1987) and with Ashley Jamieson of Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy (PMI, 2004). He is co-editor with Jeffrey Pinto of The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects (Wiley, 2005); and, with Jeffrey Pinto and Jonas Söderlund, of The Oxford Handbook of Project Management (OUP, 2010).
He was Chairman of the Association for Project Management (APM) from 1993-96 and Deputy Chairman of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) from 1995-97. He was Professor of Engineering Project Management at UMIST, 1996-2002; a director of Bovis Ltd., the international construction company, 1989-1996; Executive Director of The Major Projects Association, and Research Fellow, the University of Oxford, 1984-89; and a director of INDECO, a management consulting company, 1996-2009. Prior to these positions he worked as an international management consultant for A D Little and Booz Allen & Hamilton, and for the construction company, Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd.
He received the Project Management Institute’s 2005 Research Achievement Award, IPMA’s 2009 Research Award, and APM’s 2008 Sir Monty Finniston Life Time Achievement Award. He was awarded his PhD in the management of construction projects in 1972.