PM Timeline

By jeremywarren
  • Period: to

    Craft system to Human Relations Administration

  • The Critical path method (CPM) invented

    And the US DoD used modern project management techniques in their Polaris project.

  • AACE International formed

    American Association of Cost Engineers

  • The PERT method invented

    Program Evaluation and Review Technique
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    Application of Management Science

  • Project Management Institute (PMI) launched to promote project management profession

  • The Mythical Man-Month published

    & PROMPT methodology (acronym for Project Resource Organisation Management Planning Technique) created by Simpact Systems Ltd[3] (source: PRINCE2 manual)
  • Period: to

    Production Center: Human Resources

  • The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt published

  • 1986 Scrum was named as a project management style...

    ...in the article The New New Product Development Game by Takeuchi and Nonaka

  • First PMBOK Guide published as a white paper by PMI

    Project Management Body of Knowledge

  • PRINCE method derived from PROMPTII is published by the UK Government agency CCTA and becomes the UK standard for all government information projects

  • Period: to

    Creating a new environment

  • PRINCE2 published by CCTA (now Office of Government Commerce OGC) as a generic product management methodology for all UK government projects.

  • Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt published

  • AgileAlliance formed to promote "lightweight" software development projects

  • Total Cost Management Framework release by AACE

  • PRINCE2 2009 edition, compatible with other methods and more flexible in approach