Editing Project management software (section)

===The first project management products and associations===
In the period between 1965 and 1969, two of the leading project management associations were formed: the International Project Management Association (IPMA) in Europe, and the [[Project Management Institute]] (PMI) which trains project management professionals and issues certificates. With businesses shifting towards technology-based and paperless methods, the first project management systems started to emerge.<ref>Sandro Azzopardi, [https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/evolution-of-project-management.php "THE EVOLUTION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT"], ''projectsmart.co.uk'',</ref> [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] and [[Artemis (software)|Artemis]] launched their project managers in 1977, while Scitor Corporation did the same in 1979.<ref>Sandro Azzopardi, [http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/history/index.html "Oracle's History: Innovation, Leadership, Results"], ''oracle.com'',</ref><ref>[http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/14416/Metier-Artemis/ "Metier Artemis"], ''computinghistory.org.uk'',</ref> Many improvements followed in the upcoming decades. In 1986, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]’s [[Software Engineering Institute]] introduced capability maturity software, a five-level project management method for rapidly maturing processes, while in 1988, users were introduced to earned value management which added processes’ scope and cost to the schedule.<ref>[https://www.sei.cmu.edu/reports/93tr024.pdf "Technical Report"], ''sei.cmu.edu'',</ref> The trend continued with [[PRINCE2]] (1996) which increased the number of processes to seven, because of which developers considered designing products for managing complex projects. In 2001, they adopted the [[Agile management|Agile project management]] concept and focused on adaptive planning and flexible response to changes. In 2006, users were already able to trigger [[total cost management]], a framework that helps control and reduce costs in project management.<ref>[http://www.aacei.org/tcmfree/tcmframework_webedition.pdf "TOTAL COST MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530211731/http://www.aacei.org/tcmfree/tcmframework_webedition.pdf |date=2016-05-30 }}, ''aacei.org'',</ref>