Project Management History

By lily2124

  • Gantt Chart

    Henry Gantt creates the Gantt Chart, which illustrates a project schedule.

  • The American Association of Cost Engineer Formed

    Formed by early practitioners of project management.

  • The Critical Path Method (CPM) Invented

    It was invented by the Dupont Corporation

  • The Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) Invented

    This technique was invented for the U.S. Navy's Polaris Project

  • The International Project Management Association (IPMA) Founded

    First project management association

  • Project Management Institute (PMI) Launched

    This was done to promote the Project Management Profession

  • The Waterfall Method was invented

    A linear project management approach

  • PROMPTII Method Created

  • First Apple's Computer was Released

    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers

  • Invention of the Internet

    ARPANET adopted TCP/IP

  • Scrum was Introduced

    This is an agile processed model that was later elaborated on once agile became known.

  • The World Wide Web was invented

    This is the common means of accessing data online in the form of websites and hyperlinks and was invented by Tim Berners-Lee

  • Extreme Programming was created (XP)

  • Critical Chain Project Management Invented

    based on methods and algorithms drawn from his Theory of Constraints

  • PMBOK Becomes a Standard

  • Wi-Fi was invented

    The term Wi-Fi begins being used as people start getting on wireless internet.

  • The Agile Manifesto was Written

    The approach was written based on 12 principles and 4 values

  • IPhone Brings Internet to the Smartphone

  • Projectmanager.com was released

    Brought project management into world wide web.