Jon Whitty

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Jon Whitty BEng(Hons) PhD

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland

Bio | Research | Publications | Teaching

"Keeping Project Management Intellectually Honest"

Contact Details

Email: jonwhitty@uq.edu.au
Office: 47-509 (Axon)
Phone: +61-7-3365-9797 (x59797 internal)
Fax: +61-7-3365-4999
Post: School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

Biography

I have come to an academic life after a career that has included engineering, personal and management development, higher education and broadcasting.

Research

I have dedicated myself to participating in the debate of matters regarding Project Management and Memetics. My unique contribution is to put forward an evolutionary approach to Project Management research.

UQ eSpace Project Management Collection

Publications

2009

Journals

Whitty, S.J. (forthcoming 2010) Project management artefacts and the affective emotions they evoke. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (PDF)

Whitty, S.J. & Maylor, H. (2009) And then came Complex Project Management (revised). International Journal of Project Management, 27 (3) 304-310 (PDF)

2008

Conferences

Whitty, S.J. (2008). 'C' for Craftsmanship not 'C' for Complexity. PMI Global Congress, Asia Pacific, Sydney Research Working Session (PDF)

2007

Journals

Whitty, S.J. & Schulz, M.F. (2007). The impact of Puritan ideology on aspects of project management. International Journal of Project Management, 25 (1) 10-20 (PDF)

Conferences

Maylor, H. and Whitty, S.J. (2007), “Complexity and Project Managers’ Competencies,” 7th International Research Workshop on Project Management, Lille, August, 2007.

Whitty, S.J. & Maylor, H. (2007) And then came Complex Project Management. 21st IPMA World Congress on Project Management Cracow, Poland (PDF) Google Video Version.

Other

Whitty, S.J. (2007). It's Just Absurd. Project, Jan (PDF)

Whitty, S.J. (2007). A War On Terms: moving the discussion of managing complexity in projects forward. Discussion Paper ( PDF)
2006

Conferences

Whitty, S.J. & Schulz, M.F. (2006). _THE_PM_BOK Code. 20th IPMA World Congress on Project Management Shanghai, (1) 466-472 (PDF)

Other

Whitty, S.J. (2006). 20th IPMA World Congress: Reflections of a Concerned Australian Delegate. Personal Editorial

2005

Journals

Whitty, S.J. (2005). A memetic paradigm of project management. International Journal of Project Management, 23 (8) 575-583 (PDF)

Conferences

Whitty, S.J. & Schulz, M. (2005) Team Project: A Method of Teaching Project Management. Proceedings of Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) 2005 Conference

Ziemski, M. & Whitty, S.J. (2005) Engineering Project Management: Doing not Teaching. Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE) 2005

Whitty, S.J. & Schulz, M. (2005) Plagiarism: banished to the Past. Proceedings of Effective Teaching and Learning Conference 2005

Teaching

Semester 1, 2008 Duties

Master of Project Management

ENGG1000 - Introduction to Professional Engineering

Thesis Project Topics

Last modified: Tuesday October 06, 2009