Project Management: History: The History Of Project Management

History of project management

The history of the project management is been very ancient, even before the existence of Gantt chart, history offers serval successful project complete, the Great wall of China, The pyramid, and coliseum each one is good example of project. For each of these project someone should hold to manage hundreds to thousands of worker for many years, and make sure the project in progress in right way and track them and at last the result should be satisfy. Despite of all these great project achieved there are lack in documentation and records throughout the history, most of the earlier project and historical project the documentation are rare. “There are a reasonable rationalization for rare of the document of historical

For the modern project management it seems there is no agreement when it’s start, there is different opinion how starts the project management. The forefather of the project management are the Henri Foyal and Henry Gantt. Several author disagree and serval will agree. Both of the Henri Foyal and Henry Gantt were lived in eighteenth century, they have significant contribution in the history of modern project management in which they develop the Gantt chart which have vital role in project success and recognized, and the feature of breaking down the large project into more smaller project. In order for better understanding the history of modern project management, the scientist divided it into four period: prior to 1958, 1958 – 1979, 1980 – 1994, 1995 to present. The first period is asserted that it’s the origin period of the modern project management, and beginning of the modern management. During this period the project management changed from vocation to human relations administration, in this period it get better communication,

On other hand it says the project management will be more professional and having unique skill for functional effect on the projects. The role of project management will be more in industrial fields. A report was published by Project Management Talent Gap Report provides the predicted for the future of project managers “between 2010 and 2020, 15.7 million new project management roles will be created globally across seven project-intensive industries” there will be a high global demand for project managers, which makes the project management profession very desirable (Project Management Institute, 2013). Finally in twenty-first century the project manager should be adaptable for changes and disruptions for success in managing and controlling to get satisfied