Pointing the Way to the Future of Project Management: How the Past and Present Point Towards Project Management's Future

摘要

Projects were completed successfully well before the idea of project management as its own discipline existed. This paper will look at three significant construction projects from the late 1800 and early 1900's, each unique in its time due to size, scope, or technology. The lessons learned from those projects, coupled with a look at project management history in general, will be checked against a current project management theory to determine if the focus of today's project management education has project managers pointed in the right direction.