With a background of many years in the development and implementation of IT applications, Howard Duncan's main areas of interest are in Software Engineering and Project Management issues, and Business Process Management. He is interested in practical experience in the use of development methods, and how they are adapted to meet particular needs.

Currently Mr. Duncan is focusing on both the technology and the social aspects of organisational change. In particular, this means methods of modelling workflow design, and the technology for supporting workflow systems on the one hand, and the social issues of designing and implementing change in organisational systems on the other.

Mr. Duncan also has an interest in issues of software process. He is currently working with a research student on a survey of Project Management frameworks in use in the Irish IT sector, and their Critical Success Factors. Mr. Duncan has managed a project to develop a version of the Personal Software Process suited to the European SME sector, and is currently working with Agile Development Methods.