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Term Project manager first used
First used by Bechtel USA to assign responsibility to an individual operating in a remote, strange and hostile environment with a self-contained autonomous team -
Critical path method developed
Developed in a period of 27 months from December 1956 to February 1959 in the Integrated Engineering Control Group as EI du Pont de Nemours at Newark Delaware together with a group at Remington Rand Univac headed by John Maunchly to solve a construction scheduling problem -
PERT developed
Formal work on PERT began on 6 February 1958 in the US Navy Special Projects Office under Admiral Red Rayborn together with the consulting firm Booz, Allen and Hamilton. The purpose was to manage the hundreds of contractors designing, constructing and testing the POLARIS submarine and missile system -
International Project Management Association (IPMA) formed
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Project Management Institute (PMI) formed
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Period: to
Spread of project management applications from construction, defence and aerospace into virtually every industry
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Certification of Project Managers - Fantasy or Reality? by Desmond Cook
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Ethics, Standards and Accreditation project (ESA)
Early version of the PMBOK comprising 6 project management functions namely management of project cost, time, quality, scope, human resources and communication -
The accidental profession - Gordon Davis
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First PMI exam
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First edition of PMBOK
Project procurement management was added -
PMBOK second edition
Project risk management is added and framework is expanded -
Edition 6 of the PMBOK: This edition created another knowledge area and changed the process group diagram as well as doning more stuff
Put a more detailed description
Unique because
Temporary because
Outcome was an updated PMBOK
Time was Fixed
Quality was Optimised
Cost was Accepted
