26 October 2022
6 Future Uncertainties We Need to Navigate
The future of project management has been a topic of exploration pretty much since project management has been around. In the grand scheme of things, this is not very long.
Modern project management as we know it is a recently emerged construct. The history of project management only reaches back to the late 1950s, with the advent of the Polaris nuclear submarine platform for the U.S. Department of Defense, and the efforts to address plant turnaround scheduling problems for Dupont.
These efforts gave rise to a number of innovations in how to think about managing temporary organizations with schedule-intensive and time-sensitive efforts. Most notably, PERT and CPM emerged wholesale from these efforts, and have remained relatively unchanged ever since.
