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Project Management a System
approach to Planning
Scheduling &
Controlling

- Harold Kerzner

,Chapter


Introduction to Project
Management

, History of Project Management
 One of the first examples of project management was
the construction of the pyramids in Egypt
 Henry L. Gantt (1861-1919) added an important
visualization tool around 1917 with the Gantt Chart


 In the late 1950s, DuPont Company developed the
Critical Path Method (CPM)
 Also in the late 1950s, Booz Allen Hamilton developed
the Program Evaluation and Review Technique
(PERT), which models uncertainty in project
management



3

, Importance of Project Management
 Project management effectively controls
organizational change, allowing organizations
to introduce new products, new processes,
and new programs effectively.
 Projects are becoming more complex,
making them more difficult to control without
a formal management structure.
 Projects with substantially different
characteristics, especially in IT, are
emerging.
 Project management helps cross-functional
teams to become more effective. 4

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