{"id":5095,"date":"2023-02-27T01:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T01:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/?page_id=5095"},"modified":"2023-02-27T01:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T01:04:29","slug":"history-of-project-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/learning-pathways\/project-management-in-context\/history-of-project-management\/","title":{"rendered":"History of project management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\/File:Pyramids.jpeg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/wikieducator.org\/images\/thumb\/b\/b4\/Pyramids.jpeg\/300px-Pyramids.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">The pyramids<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>How far back do you think project management goes?\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 2570 BCE: The Great Pyramid of Giza completed\n<\/li>\n<li> 208 BCE: Construction of the Great Wall of China\n<\/li>\n<li> 1917: The Gantt chart developed by Henry Gantt (1861-1919)\n<\/li>\n<li> 1956: The American Association of Cost Engineers (now AACE International) formed\n<\/li>\n<li> 1957: The Critical Path Method (CPM) invented by the Dupont Corporation\n<\/li>\n<li> 1958: The Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) invented for the U.S. Navy&#8217;s Polaris Project\n<\/li>\n<li> 1962: United States Department of Defense mandate the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) approach\n<\/li>\n<li> 1965: The International Project Management Association (IPMA) founded\n<\/li>\n<li> 1969: Project Management Institute (PMI) launched to promote the Project Management profession\n<\/li>\n<li> 1975: PROMPTII method created by Simpact Systems Limited\n<\/li>\n<li> 1975: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Fred Brooks\n<\/li>\n<li> 1984: Theory of Constraints (TOC) introduced by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt in his novel &#8220;The Goal&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li> 1986 Scrum named as a Project Management Style\n<\/li>\n<li> 1987: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) published by PMI\n<\/li>\n<li> 1989: Earned Value Management (EVM) Leadership elevated to Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition\n<\/li>\n<li> 1989: PRINCE Method developed From PROMPTII\n<\/li>\n<li> 1994: CHAOS Report first published\n<\/li>\n<li> 1996: PRINCE2 published by CCTA\n<\/li>\n<li> 1997: Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) invented\n<\/li>\n<li> 1998: PMBOK becomes a standard\n<\/li>\n<li> 2001: The Agile Manifesto written\n<\/li>\n<li> 2006: &#8220;Total Cost Management Framework&#8221; released by AACE International\n<\/li>\n<li> 2008: 4th edition of PMBOK Guide released\n<\/li>\n<li> 2009: Major PRINCE2 revision by Office of Government Commerce (OGC)\n<\/li>\n<li> 2012: ISO 21500:2012 Standard for Project Management released\n<\/li>\n<li> 2012: 5th Edition of PMBOK Guide released\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\">\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"discussion\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_discussion.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Forum - Reflection on the history and future of project management<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Review the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.projectsmart.co.uk\/brief-history-of-project-management.php\">dynamic time line<\/a> depicting the history of project management published by Project Smart.\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Log in to <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/forums.oeru.org\/\">forums.oeru.org<\/a> (Sign up to register a new account if your don\u2019t already have one.)\n<\/li>\n<li> Consider the following questions:\n<ul>\n<li> What do you think is the most significant milestone for project management? Why?\n<\/li>\n<li> What do you think is the most important challenge for the future of project management? Why?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Post your thoughts on these questions and join the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/forums.oeru.org\/t\/ipm101-reflection-on-the-history-and-future-of-project-management\/798\">discussion on the history and future of project management<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"Reading\" class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"reading\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_reading.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Read the section <i>History<\/i> in the prescribed textbook (<a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/projectmanagement\/Table-of-contents\/\">Web<\/a> | <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/projectmanagement\/open\/download?filename=Project-Management-1464292370&amp;type=pdf\">PDF<\/a>), Chapter 1 (pages 7 and 8 in the PDF version).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.048 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.054 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 217\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 888\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 5567\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2351\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key we_en-mw_:pcache:idhash:179190-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20230227010429 and revision id 1053279\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/ipm101\/learning-pathways\/project-management-in-context\/project-manager-roles\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/ipm101\/learning-pathways\/project-management-in-context\/project-attributes\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"wenote-ids\"><script type='text\/javascript' id='wenotes-ids'>\n    var WEnotesSite = \"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\";\n    var WEnotesPath = \"\/Introduction_to_project_management\/IPM101\/Context\/History\";\n    var WEnotesSiteID = \"0e3d258fbd36841f92259eefcd41d5e9\";\n    var WEnotesPathID = \"4777a56ae6c41ca0e398ba9837355588\";\n    var WEnotesIDs = { site: \"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\", path: \"\/Introduction_to_project_management\/IPM101\/Context\/History\", site_id: \"0e3d258fbd36841f92259eefcd41d5e9\", path_id: \"4777a56ae6c41ca0e398ba9837355588\" };\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pyramids How far back do you think project management goes? 2570 BCE: The Great Pyramid of Giza completed 208 BCE: Construction of the Great Wall of China 1917: The Gantt chart developed by Henry Gantt (1861-1919) 1956: The American Association of Cost Engineers (now AACE International) formed 1957: The Critical Path Method (CPM) invented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5085,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5095","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5096,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5095\/revisions\/5096"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}