Above: Terry Receives PMI’s Scholar-Practitioner Award from PMI Chairman, Randy Black.
Terry Cooke-Davies founded the project management consulting business, Human Systems Limited, in 1985 and led it actively as Managing Director, Chief Executive or Chairman until its acquisition by the Project Management Institute in 2013. He obtained his PhD in project management in 2000 from Leeds Becket University, and thereafter served as a Visiting Research Fellow or Visiting Professor at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), ESC Lille, Uiversity College, London and Cranfield School of Management. He retired in December 2018.
The papers and articles below represent a partial list of his publications. The citations are linked to downloadable versions of the papers.
- Cooke-Davies, T. J. (1990) Changing Corporate Culture to Improve Project Performance. 10th Internet World Congress on Project Management Vienna: I. P. M. A.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (1990) The Return of the Project Manager. Management Today May London: British Institute of Management.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (1998) Change Programmes. Project Manager Today X (6):7 to 10 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (1998) Drawing Lessons from the Evidence. Project Manager Today X (5):8 to 10 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (1998) The prize at the end of the cultural rainbow. Project Manager Today X (7):16 to 19 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (1998) Skimping on risk. Project Manager Today X (9):12 to 15 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. and Wolstenholme, E.F. (1998) Reshaping Project Management Education and Training. Project Manager Today X (4):10 to 12 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (1999) A community of project managers. Project Manager Today XI (1):8 to 11 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T. J. (2000) Discovering the Principles of Project Management. IRNOP IV Sydney: University of Technology in Sydney.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2001) Project Close-out Management: More Than Just Saying Goodbye and Moving On. In: Knutson, J., (Ed.) Project Management for Business Professionals: A Comprehensive Guide., pp. 200 to 214 New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2001) Towards improved project management practice: Uncovering the evidence for effective practices through empirical research., USA: com.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J., Schlichter, F.J. and Bredillet, C (2001) Beyond the PMBOK Guide PMI ’01 Annual Symposium 2001 Nashville PMI
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2001) Thriving during Tough Times. Project Manager Today October 2001 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2001) Benefits Management. Project Manager Today November/December 2001 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2002) Its people who get things done. Project Manager Today January 2002 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2002) Portfolio management. Project Manager Today February 2002 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2002) What is the true value of project management? Project Manager Today March 2002 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2002) Learning from experience. Project Manager Today April 2002 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T. J. (2002) The “real” success factors in projects. International Journal of Project Management. Volume 20, Number 3. April 2002 Pages 185-190.
Note: This paper is one of the most highly cited papers in the field of project management in the 21st Century - Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2002) Project management maturity models. Project Manager Today May 2002 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. and Arzymanow, A. (2002) The Maturity of Project Management in Different Industries. IRNOP V Renesse May 2002 Erasmus University.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2002) Multi-project management: the key to implementing corporate strategy PMI Europe June 2002 Cannes Marlow Events.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2002) Establishing the link between project management practices and project success. Proceedings of the PMI Research Conference Seattle July 2002 PMI
- Cooke-Davies, T. J. (2003) Do business change projects really change the business? PMI Global Congress Europe June 2003 den Haag, Marlow Events
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2003) Consistently doing the right projects and doing them right. What metrics do you need? AIPM Annual Conference 2003, Alice Springs, AIPM
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2003) Delivering change. Project Manager Today November 2003 London England: Larchdrift Projects Limited.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2004) Project success. In: Morris, P. W. G. and Pinto, J. (Eds) Handbook of Managing Projects New York., John Wiley and Sons.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2004) Project management maturity models. In: Morris, P. W. G. and Pinto, J. (Eds) Handbook of Managing Projects New York., John Wiley and Sons.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2004) The right projects done right. What metrics do you need? PMI Global Congress 2004, April 2004, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Cooke-Davies, T. J. (2004) Measurement of Organizational Maturity. PMI Research Conference, July 2004, London UK.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2004) De-engineering project management. IRNOP VI August 2004, Turku, Finland.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2005) The Executive Sponsor – The Hinge Upon Which Organizational Maturity Turns? PMI Global Congress Europe, May 2005, Edinburgh UK
- Crawford, L.H. and Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2005) Project Governance – The Pivotal Role of the Executive Sponsor PMI Global Congress North America, September 2005, Toronto Canada
- Winter, M., Smith, C., Cooke-Davies, T and Cicmil, C. (2006) ‘The importance of ‘process’ in Rethinking Project Management: The story of a UK Government-funded research network.’ International Journal of Project Management. Volume 24, Issue 8. November 2996. Pages 650 to 662.
- Teague, J. A. and Cooke-Davies, T. J. (2007) Developing Organizational Capability: Pointers and Pitfalls. PMI Global Congress EMEA, May 2007, Budapest, Hungary
- Crawford, L., & Cooke-Davies, T. J. (2007). Project Governance–The role and capabilities of the executive sponsor. Paper in proceedings 21st IPMA World Congress 2007.
- Cooke-Davies, T. J., Cicmil, S.,Crawford, L. H. and Richardson, K (2007) We’re Not in Kansas Anymore, Toto. Examining the Strange Landscape of Complexity Theory and Its Relationship to Project Management. Project Management Journal Vol 38, No. 2, June 2007, pages 50 to 61.
- Cooke-Davies, T. (2008) To Err is Human… …Especially Where Projects are Concerned. “Project Management to Run”. 22nd International Congress. IPMA. November 9-11, 2008. Rome, Italy.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J., Crawford L.H. and Lechler, T.G. (2009) Project Management Systems: Moving Project Management from an Operational to a Strategic Discipline. Project Management Journal Vol 40 No.1, March 2009 pages 110 to 123.
Note: This paper was awarded to “Best Paper of the Year” Award in July 2010 for papers published in the Project Management Journal. - Cooke-Davies T. (2009) Front-end Alignment of Projects — Doing the Right Project. In: Williams T.M., Samset K., Sunnevåg K.J. (eds) Making Essential Choices with Scant Information. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230236837_6
- Cooke-Davies, T. J. and Teague, J. A. (2009) “Soft” Skills for Tough Projects: Developing Leaders with the Right Skills to Lead Programs and Projects. PMI Global Congress EMEA. June 2009. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Cooke-Davies, T.J. (2016) Managing Strategic Initiatives: in Lock, D and Wagner, R (Eds) Gower Handbook of Programme Management Second Edition Routledge, London and New York.
