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<h2 id="early-civilizations">Early civilizations</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/26th_century_BC/FA8nVnsK">2570 BC</a> <a href="/facts/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza/7p5HrMFb">Great Pyramid of Giza</a> completed. Some records remain of how the work was managed: e.g. there were managers of each of the four faces of the pyramid, responsible for their completion (subproject managers).</li> <li>208 BC The first major construction of the <a href="/facts/Great_Wall_of_China/aXVq4FrH">Great Wall of China</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="17th---19th-century">17th - 19th century</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Christopher_Wren/yKSh7QUa">Christopher Wren</a> (1632–1723) was a 17th-century English designer, astronomer, geometer, mathematician-physicist and <a href="/facts/Architect/pv0f9bYq">architect</a>. Wren designed 55 of 87 <a href="/facts/List_of_Christopher_Wren_churches_in_London/5IJ7TNnv">London churches</a> after the Great fire of London in 1666, such as <a href="/facts/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral/e51m9gYD">St Paul's Cathedral</a> in 1710, as well as many secular buildings.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Thomas_Telford/AEtkYsSe">Thomas Telford</a> (1757-1834) was a Scottish stonemason, architect and civil engineer and a road, bridge and canal builder, who managed the <a href="/facts/Ellesmere_Canal/y6IP7Act">Ellesmere Canal</a> and <a href="/facts/Pontcysyllte_Aqueduct/zFYW8jzy">Pontcysyllte Aqueduct</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel/kKeQ1IV6">Isambard Kingdom Brunel</a> (1806–1859) was a British engineer who created the <a href="/facts/Great_Western_Railway/dFDmbH3d">Great Western Railway</a>, a series of <a href="/facts/Steamship/Ay0fhKBW">steamships</a>, such as the first with a propeller, and numerous <a href="/facts/Bridge/vBJ7Hw8v">bridges</a> and <a href="/facts/Tunnel/PJNSaSIw">tunnels</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="20th-century">20th century</h2> <ul><li>1910s The <a href="/facts/Gantt_chart/HooQgCvs">Gantt chart</a> developed by <a href="/facts/Henry_Laurence_Gantt/IzKuhaec">Henry Laurence Gantt</a> (1861–1919)</li></ul> 1950s <ul><li>1950s The <a href="/facts/Critical_path_method/cl8LtYqY">Critical path method</a> (CPM) invented</li> <li>1950s The <a href="/facts/United_States_Department_of_Defense/dWAvf7e3">US DoD</a> used modern project management techniques in their <a href="/facts/UGM-27_Polaris/AKTSHCNB">Polaris project</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li>1956 The American Association of <a href="/facts/Cost_Engineer/kdMSIE6R">Cost Engineers</a> (now <a href="/facts/AACE_International/vhqG3nhp">AACE International</a>) formed</li> <li>1958 The <a href="/facts/Program_Evaluation_and_Review_Technique/TVTWehCE">Program Evaluation and Review Technique</a> (PERT) method invented</li></ul> 1960s <ul><li>1969 <a href="/facts/Project_Management_Institute/8AygTItl">Project Management Institute</a> (PMI) launched to promote project management profession</li></ul> 1970s <ul><li>1975 PROMPT methodology (acronym for <i>Project Resource Organisation Management Planning Technique</i>) created by Simpact Systems Ltd<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> (source: PRINCE2 manual)</li> <li>1975 <i><a href="/facts/The_Mythical_Man-Month/wCXlLFQo">The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering</a></i> by <a href="/facts/Fred_Brooks/1FNtgMgE">Fred Brooks</a> published</li></ul> 1980s <ul><li>1984 <i><a href="/facts/The_Goal_(novel)/XcxP8mKq">The Goal</a></i> by <a href="/facts/Eliyahu_M._Goldratt/zB6rPp1L">Eliyahu M. Goldratt</a> published</li> <li>1986 <a href="/facts/Scrum_(management)/Ih3ufnVB">Scrum</a> was named as a project management style in the article <i>The New New Product Development Game</i> by Takeuchi and Nonaka</li> <li>1987 First <i><a href="/facts/Project_Management_Body_of_Knowledge/wrQFzzBh">Project Management Body of Knowledge</a> Guide</i> published as a white paper by PMI</li> <li>1989 PRINCE method derived from PROMPTII is published by the UK Government agency CCTA and becomes the UK standard for all government information projects</li></ul> 1990s <ul><li>1996 <a href="/facts/PRINCE2/P8pcGzrA">PRINCE2</a> published by CCTA (now <a href="/facts/Office_of_Government_Commerce/a2mVjDeG">Office of Government Commerce</a> OGC) as a generic product management methodology for all UK government projects.</li> <li>1997 <i><a href="/facts/Critical_Chain/3Qq6mKH1">Critical Chain</a></i> by <a href="/facts/Eliyahu_M._Goldratt/zB6rPp1L">Eliyahu M. Goldratt</a> published</li></ul> <h2 id="21st-century">21st century</h2> <ul><li>2001 AgileAlliance formed to promote "lightweight" software development projects</li> <li>2006 <a href="/facts/Total_Cost_Management/rrSufK6L">Total Cost Management</a> Framework release by <a href="/facts/AACE_International/vhqG3nhp">AACE</a></li> <li>2009 PRINCE2 2009 edition, compatible with other methods and more flexible in approach</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_project_management_topics/n3sR1qhG">List of project management topics</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://projectmanagementblogs.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/project-management-history-to-present-days-tools/">"A Brief History of Project Management" Infographics</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Dennis Lock (2007) Project management (9e ed.) Gower Publishing, Ltd., 2007. ISBN 0-566-08772-3 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Young-Hoon Kwak (2005). "A brief history of Project Management". In: The story of managing projects. Elias G. Carayannis et al. 9eds, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. ISBN 1-56720-506-2 <a href="/wiki/Elias_G._Carayannis" target="_blank">/wiki/Elias_G._Carayannis</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"PROMPT | Simpact Systems 1975". projectmanagementhistory.com. Retrieved 2016-03-04. <a href="http://projectmanagementhistory.com/PROMPT.html" target="_blank">http://projectmanagementhistory.com/PROMPT.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>