Timeline of project management

Table of contents

1 Pre-historic times 2 BC 3 AD 4 See also

Pre-historic times

• Stonehenge built, quite a major project.

BC

• 2570 BC -- Great pyramid of Giza completed; another major project. 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).

• 208 BC -- the first major construction of the Great Wall of China, one more major project.

AD

1800s

1900s

• 1910s The Gantt Chart developed by Henry Laurence Gantt (1861-1919)

• 1958 The PERT method invented

• 1969 PMI (Project Management Institute) launched to promote project management profession

• 1984 The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt published

• 1997 Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt published

2000s

• 2001 AgileAlliance formed to promote "lightweight" software development projects

See also

• List of project management topics

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