Comments on: History of project management http://civilengineerlink.com/history-project-management-2/ Civil Engineering Jobs & Construction Projects Management Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:12:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paulin http://civilengineerlink.com/history-project-management-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4636 Paulin Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:39:15 +0000 http://civilengineerlink.com/?p=206#comment-4636 Excellent write up on project management history! Its quite impressive most of the project management softwares are following PMBOK and PRINCEE2 methodologies. Planningforce is a desktop solution for both windows and Mac with interactive toolbar and multilingual features! Chk it out! Excellent write up on project management history! Its quite impressive most of the project management softwares are following PMBOK and PRINCEE2 methodologies. Planningforce is a desktop solution for both windows and Mac with interactive toolbar and multilingual features! Chk it out!

]]> By: Project_Doctor http://civilengineerlink.com/history-project-management-2/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Project_Doctor Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:23:09 +0000 http://civilengineerlink.com/?p=206#comment-34 While I am in general agreement with your historical over-view, I think you missed the real "father" of project management, French Mining Engineer, Henri Fayol. http://www.12manage.com/methods_fayol_14_principles_of_management.html As for competency based credentials, IPMA is far from being alone. The Australian based AIPM was one of the first to develop a true competency based credential, and more recently, the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS) www.globalpmstandards.org was formed as the ONLY competency standard setting organization that is INDEPENDENT of any particular body of knowledge, methodology or philosophy. More importantly, GAPPS has put their standards into the "public domain" under "creative commons" (open source) licensing arrangements. BR, Dr. PDG, Jakarta, Indonesia While I am in general agreement with your historical over-view, I think you missed the real “father” of project management, French Mining Engineer, Henri Fayol. http://www.12manage.com/methods_fayol_14_principles_of_management.html

As for competency based credentials, IPMA is far from being alone. The Australian based AIPM was one of the first to develop a true competency based credential, and more recently, the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS) http://www.globalpmstandards.org was formed as the ONLY competency standard setting organization that is INDEPENDENT of any particular body of knowledge, methodology or philosophy. More importantly, GAPPS has put their standards into the “public domain” under “creative commons” (open source) licensing arrangements.

BR,
Dr. PDG, Jakarta, Indonesia

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