History of Project Management By Peter.Lund@du.edu 2570 BCE Great Pyramid completed 208 BCE Great Wall of China completed 1917 Gantt Chart developed 1931 Hoover Dam completed 1956 American Association of Cost Engineers formed 1957 Critical Path Method (CPM) invented 1957 Critical Path Method (CPM) invented 1958 Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) invented 1962 US DoD Mandates Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) approach 1965 International Project Management Association (IPMA) founded 1969 Project Management Institute (PMI) founded 1975 PROMPTII Method created 1975 The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering written 1984 Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed 1986 Scrum named as project management style 1987 Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) published 1989 PRINCE method developed 1989 Earned Value Management (EVM) adopted by DoD 1994 CHAOS Report published 1996 PRINCE2 published 1997 Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) invented 1998 PMBOK becomes a standard 2001 Agile Manifesto written