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Professor Dave BrydeDave Bryde

Professor of Project Management, Liverpool John Moores University

Dave Bryde is Professor of Project Management (PM) at Liverpool John Moores University. Dave is particularly interested in relational/psycho-social aspects of project operations, with a focus on understanding how PM innovations are embedded in organisations and how project teams work effectively and efficiently to deliver beneficial outcomes.

His most recently completed research project, which was sponsored by Save Construction Industry, was on digital project management innovations, with a specific focus on the implementation of digital parallel payment accounts (DiPPAs) in the infrastructure and construction industry sectors. He was the Lead Project Coordinator for the EU Marie Sklodowska Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) Horizon 2020 Work Programme “Being Lean and Seen: meeting the challenges of delivering projects successfully in the 21st century”. This was a four-year project, completed in 2023, involving nine academic and non-academic partners from the UK, Germany and Malaysia.

He was also the Principal Investigator on a project, funded by the Association of Project Management (APM), which investigated relational aspects in the management of outsourced projects, which informed the development of The CURED Framework and the game NODEL® for managing relational risk. Other APM-funded projects he was involved in investigated 1) the coping strategies adopted by project managers to deal with difficult stakeholders and 2) how the social networks of staff at director levels in project intensive companies influences their performance in meeting environmental-related goals. 

Session: Using gamification in managing relational risk in projects

This interactive session will introduce delegates to the concept of relational risk, which is the potential for adverse outcomes that arise from people interactions, relationships, or networks. It will also introduce delegates to the use of games in work contexts, including in project environments.

The session will demonstrate how a particular project management game, called NODEL®, which is card-based and can be used at different stages of the project life cycle, has been played by teams to mitigate relational risk.

Academic research undertaken by the speakers into the benefits of playing the game will also be shared; with this research involving the collection of data using established measures from organisational psychology, such as “work self-efficacy”; where work self-efficacy is a measure of a person’s belief that they have the capacity to perform and deliver.

The objectives of the session are as follows:

  • To explain the concept of relational risk
  • To introduce project management methods to mitigate and manage relational risk 
  • To explain the concept of gamification in work contexts, including project environments
  • To demonstrate, with an example, how the project management game NODEL®, is played
  • To share academic research as to the impact of NODEL® on individuals
  • To share the experiences of individuals that have played the game