History of Project Management

  • 2570 BCE

    Great Pyramid completed

  • 208 BCE

    Great Wall of China completed

  • Gantt Chart developed

  • Hoover Dam completed

  • American Association of Cost Engineers formed

  • Critical Path Method (CPM) invented

  • Critical Path Method (CPM) invented

  • Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) invented

  • US DoD Mandates Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) approach

  • International Project Management Association (IPMA) founded

  • Project Management Institute (PMI) founded

  • PROMPTII Method created

  • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering written

  • Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed

  • Scrum named as project management style

  • Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) published

  • PRINCE method developed

  • Earned Value Management (EVM) adopted by DoD

  • CHAOS Report published

  • PRINCE2 published

  • Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) invented

  • PMBOK becomes a standard

  • Agile Manifesto written