Project Management History

Construction of the Great Pyramids

2500 BCE

Construction of the Great Wall of China

220 BCE

Frederi Taylor's "The Principle of Scientific Management was publish

1911

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203498569

The Gantt Chart is created by Henry Gantt

1917

https://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/profile-of-henry-gantt-history-of-gantt-chart

Foundation of The American Association of Cost Engineers.

1956

https://web.aacei.org/

Dupont developed the Critical Path Method

1957

https://www.workamajig.com/blog/critical-path-method

PERT (Program of Evaluation Review) is developed by the U.S.A Department of Defense

1958

http://acqnotes.com/acqnote/tasks/pert-analysis

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) became mandatory for future projects by the U.S. Department of Defense

1962

http://www.acqnotes.com/Attachments/MIL-Hand%20Book-881.pdf

Foundation of the International Project Management Association

1965

https://www.ipma.world/

Foundation of the Project Management Institute (PMI)

1969

https://www.pmi.org/

Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt developed the Theory of Constraints

1984

https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/33740344/Theory_of_Constraints._Eliyahu_M._Goldratt.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DTheory_of_Constraints._Eliyahu_M._Goldra.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20190918%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190918T225454Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=ea48394ea0295eefa3368b5a0b482e8ab5300713ddfd83d156b094a041dc8715

Scrum was considered as a project management style

1986

https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-scrum

Earned Value Management became a project management technique

1989

https://www.ecosys.net/solutions/earned-value-management/?gclid=CjwKCAjwq4fsBRBnEiwANTahcLMFs8Ioj8tgt_f4PptsbX1SwSf9ddzKnWMjtH4hBtpaPevTDyS_PRoChU4QAvD_BwE

Projects in Controlled Environment (PRINCE) was created

1989

https://www.prince2.com/usa/what-is-prince2

Critical Chain Project Management is developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt

1997

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/28202/critical-chain-project-management-ccpm

Agile became a project style

2001

https://luis-goncalves.com/what-is-agile-methodology/

The Total Cost Management Framwork (TCM) is released

2006

http://web.aacei.org/resources/publications/tcm

ProjectManager.com is released

2008

https://www.projectmanager.com