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Records show that there were managers accountable for the completion of each side of the pyramid. No records on how it was organized
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Emperor Qin Shihuang had organized labor into three groups: soldiers, common people, and criminals.
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Henry Gantt created a scheduling diagram implemented in the construction of the Hoover Dam in 1931. It is still used today.
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The precursor of the AACE International and pioneers in planning and scheduling, cost estimating, cost and schedule control.
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The Dupont corporation developed a technique to predict project duration by analyzing which of sequence of activities has the least amount of flexibility in the schedule.
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Created by the Department of Defense, the WBS was a part of the Polaris mobile submaride-launched ballistic missle project. The WBS is a hierarchical tree structure of deliverables and tasks to be performed in a project. It is still used today.
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The 1st Ed. of the PMBOK was published in 1987 and was the first attempt to standardize accepted PM information and practices.
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The updated version from 1989, PRINCE was originally developed for Information Systems and Information Technology projects to reduce cost and time overruns. PRINCE2 became more generic and applicable to any project type.
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The international standard for guidance on Project Management. It was intended to provide generic guidance, explain core principles and what constitutes good practice in project management.
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The latest iteration of the PMBOK Guide that includes some Agile concepts.
