Project Management Past and Present This chapter introduces project management as an important activity in many different careers and industries The chapter presents a brief overview of the history of project management tools and project management professionalism ID: 1025240
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1. Project Management: Past and Present
2. Project Management Past and PresentThis chapter introduces project management as an important activity in many different careers and industries.The chapter presents a brief overview of the history of project management tools and project management professionalism.
3. Careers Using Project Management SkillsEveryone carries out projects, every role in every organization.Projects can be any size from one-person doing his or her homework to thousands of people working together with billion-dollar budgets.
4. Project management skillsPlanningCommunicationDelivering resultsMonitoring risksManaging resources
5. Industry sectorsBusiness ownersAgriculture and Natural ResourcesArts, Media and EntertainmentBuilding Trades and ConstructionEnergy and UtilitiesEngineering and DesignFashionFinance. . . continued on next slide
6. Industry sectors (continued)Health and Human ServicesHospitality, Tourism and recreationManufacturing and Product DevelopmentEducationPublic ServicesRetail and Wholesale TradeTransportationInformation Technology
7. History of Project ManagementEarly methodologies not well-documented, but results still stand: the pyramids, Stonehenge, mass human migrationsLate 19th centuryConstruction of intercontinental railroad, other large projectsEarly 20th CenturyFrederick Taylor created Scientific Management of industrial processesHenry Gantt developed a bar-chart approach to illustrating timing of project tasks and progress
8. History of Project Management (continued)Mid-20th centuryCPM and PERT methodologies identified the importance of task sequences, task dependencies and the concept of the critical path.Project management as a professionProject Management Institute (PMI) was foundedProject Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) was created
9. History of Project Management (continued)TodayIncreasing recognition of project management as a specialized set of skills applicable to many different industriesProject Management certifications: PMP, CAPM, specializationsPMBOK is in its 5th editionVariations on methodologies: phased (waterfall approach)Agile methodsThe importance of integrating projects into portfolios and programs
10. SummaryProject management has existed as long as humans have worked together to achieve goalsProject management skills are useful in all careersProject management takes place in all industriesProject management tools and methodologies have evolved over the past century and a half:Scientific managementGantt chartPert/CPM network diagramsThere are associations of professional project managers that set standards for the practice of project managementPMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge or PMBOK, currently in its fifth edition.
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