He is best known for developing a practice-based theory of project management, utilizing the tacit knowledge of competent practitioners from successful organizations.
After receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering at University of Texas at Austin, he broadened his scope to the management of technological and organizational projects in a wide range of industries.
Through research and consultancy at organizations such as AT&T, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Skanska, and the United States Air Force, he demonstrated the importance of learning to unlearn [1] the traditional paradigms of project management to better suit today's highly dynamic and competitive world.
He is currently a chaired professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (where he also has served as Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering).
[6] For example, in his Simultaneous Management (1997) book he demonstrates that successful project managers embrace seemingly contrasting concepts such as project stability and flexibility, proactive and reactive behaviors, and formal and informal processes, thus abandoning the "tyranny of the OR," and embracing the "genius of the AND.