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2570 BCE
Among the first project management
Among the first good examples of project management include the building and completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza in 2570 BC. https://project-management-software.financesonline.com/history-of-project-management-software-how-it-developed/ -
19th Century Growth
19th Century: Real growth with numerous railways and manufacturing processes demanding more modern project management tactics. The Transcontinental Railroad is considered the first large-scale project management endeavor. -
Gantt chart History
Devised in the mid 1890s by Karol Adamiecki, a Polish engineer had become interested in management ideas and techniques. 15 years later, an American engineer and project management consultant, Henry Gantt, created his own version of the chart that became widely known and popular in western countries. https://www.gantt.com -
PERT
PERT charts were created in the 1950s to help manage the creation of weapons and defense projects for the US Navy. Used to evaluate individual tasks by claiming a minimum amount of time to completion. https://www.wrike.com/project-management-guide/faq/what-is-pert-in-project-management/ -
CPM
The private sector created a similar method to PERT called Critical Path. The idea that you cannot start a task until a previous one has been finished.
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International Project Management Association (IPMA)
Founded in 1965 and registered in Switzerland, International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the World's first global project management professional organization. https://www.ipma.world/about-us/ -
Project Management Institute (PMI)
It began as a dinner in early 1969 among three men just a few blocks from City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was decided that a new organization should be formed to provide a means for project managers to associate, share information and discuss common problems. https://www.pmi.org/about/learn-about-pmi/founders -
Popularity of PERT & CPM
Increased their popularity within the private and public sectors. Defense Department, NASA, and large engineering and construction companies world wide applied project management principles and tools to manage large budget, schedule-driven projects. The popularity in the use of these project management tools during this period coincided with the development of computers and the associated packages that specialised in project management. -
Winston Royce creates the Waterfall Method.
An American computer scientist, director at Lockheed Software Technology Center in Austin, Texas. He was a pioneer in the field of software development. Waterfall was originally described by Winston Royce (who did not actually used this term in his papers) in 1970. -
First Project Management Softwares developed.
The rapid evolution and progress of computer technology resulted in the growth of some project management software businesses such as Oracle (1977), Artemis (1977), and Scitor Corporation (1979). -
Scrum is named as a project management style.
Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka introduced the term scrum in the context of product development in their 1986 Harvard Business Review article, 'The New New Product Development Game'. -
Workspace created with the rise of the Internet
The widespread use of Internet aided in establishing virtual project officers worldwide, and making it easier to deliver products and services, monitoring projects, and communicate anyone in the world. https://project-management-software.financesonline.com/history-of-project-management-software-how-it-developed/ -
Project Management Book of Knowledge.
The first ever edition of the PMBOK® Guide was first published in 1996 by PMI. PMI saw a need to put together an official document and guide to advance the development of the project management profession. https://edward-designer.com/web/short-history-pmbok-guide-pmi/ -
Agile Manifesto is created.
On February 11-13, 2001, the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto emerged. Representatives from Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming, and others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened. https://agilemanifesto.org/history.html -
Total Cost Management framework
Simply stated, TCM is a systematic approach to managing cost throughout the life cycle of any enterprise, program, facility, project, product or service. http://web.aacei.org/docs/default-source/toc/toc_TCM2.pdf
