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This article covers the historical '''timeline of project management'''. There is a general understanding that the history of modern [[project management]] started around 1950. Until 1900, projects were generally managed by creative [[architect]]s and [[engineer]]s themselves, among those, for example, [[Christopher Wren]], [[Thomas Telford]] and [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]].<ref>Dennis Lock (2007) ''Project management'' (9e ed.) Gower Publishing, Ltd., 2007. {{ISBN|0-566-08772-3}}</ref>

== Early civilizations ==
* [[26th century BC|2570 BC]] [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] 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). 
* 208 BC The first major construction of the [[Great Wall of China]].

== 17th - 19th century ==
* [[Christopher Wren]] (1632–1723) was a 17th-century English designer, astronomer, geometer, mathematician-physicist and [[architect]]. Wren designed 55 of 87 [[List of Christopher Wren churches in London|London churches]] after the Great fire of London in 1666, such as [[St Paul's Cathedral]] in 1710, as well as many secular buildings.
* [[Thomas Telford]] (1757-1834) was a Scottish stonemason, architect and civil engineer and a road, bridge and canal builder, who managed the [[Ellesmere Canal]] and [[Pontcysyllte Aqueduct]].
* [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] (1806–1859) was a British engineer who created the [[Great Western Railway]], a series of [[steamship]]s, such as the first with a propeller, and numerous [[bridge]]s and [[tunnel]]s.

== 20th century ==
* 1910s The [[Gantt chart]] developed by [[Henry Laurence Gantt]] (1861&ndash;1919)

;1950s
* 1950s The [[Critical path method]] (CPM) invented
* 1950s The [[United States Department of Defense|US DoD]] used modern project management techniques in their [[UGM-27 Polaris|Polaris project]].<ref name="YHK05">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}}</ref>
* 1956 The American Association of [[Cost Engineer]]s (now [[AACE International]]) formed
* 1958 The [[Program Evaluation and Review Technique]] (PERT) method invented
 
;1960s
* 1969 [[Project Management Institute]] (PMI) launched to promote project management profession

;1970s
* 1975 PROMPT methodology (acronym for ''Project Resource Organisation Management Planning Technique'') created by Simpact Systems Ltd<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://projectmanagementhistory.com/PROMPT.html|title = PROMPT {{!}} Simpact Systems 1975|website = projectmanagementhistory.com|access-date = 2016-03-04}}</ref> (source: PRINCE2 manual)
* 1975 ''[[The Mythical Man-Month|The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering]]'' by [[Fred Brooks]] published

;1980s
* 1984 ''[[The Goal (novel)|The Goal]]'' by [[Eliyahu M. Goldratt]] published
* 1986 [[Scrum (management)|Scrum]] was named as a project management style in the article ''The New New Product Development Game'' by Takeuchi and Nonaka
* 1987 First ''[[Project Management Body of Knowledge]] Guide'' published as a white paper by PMI
* 1989 PRINCE method derived from PROMPTII is published by the UK Government agency CCTA and becomes the UK standard for all government information projects

;1990s
* 1996 [[PRINCE2]] published by CCTA (now [[Office of Government Commerce]] OGC) as a generic product management methodology for all UK government projects.
* 1997 ''[[Critical Chain]]'' by [[Eliyahu M. Goldratt]] published

== 21st century ==
* 2001 AgileAlliance formed to promote "lightweight" software development projects
* 2006 [[Total Cost Management]] Framework release by [[AACE International|AACE]]
* 2009 PRINCE2 2009 edition, compatible with other methods{{clarify|date=February 2023}} and more flexible in approach

==See also==
* [[List of project management topics]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://projectmanagementblogs.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/project-management-history-to-present-days-tools/ "A Brief History of Project Management" Infographics]

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