Quality Project Management LLC history

Henry Gantt popularized the Gantt chart only a few decades earlier in about 1910, allowing a new way to visualize projects.

In 1911, mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor published The Principles of Scientific Management.

In 1924, Western Electric engineer Walter Shewhart proposed a method for statistical quality control.

One of its first uses was on the Hoover Dam project started in 1931.

Deming worked with the US Census Bureau from 1939, and his development of Shewhart’s statistical process control innovations resulted in a six-fold increase in productivity.

Change and development were brought forth during the 1940’s by industry leaders and experts like Deming, Dodge, Juran and Roming.

He also began writing what would become his acclaimed Quality Control Handbook, which was first published by McGraw-Hill in 1951.

In 1954, the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers invited Juran to Japan to discuss the theories and techniques he had developed over the years.

Early practitioners of project management and the associated specialities of planning and scheduling, cost estimating, cost and schedule control formed the AACE in 1956.

A quick look reveals that it’s a fairly brief history, with the first stage including all of human history prior to 1958.

In 1960 he was awarded the Deming Application prize.

In 1965, Europe’s overarching project management body, the International Project Management Association (IPMA), was founded.

Shortly afterward, in 1969, the Project Management Institute was founded in North America.

ARPANET: First coming online in 1971, this network linking various learning and research institutions would form the basis of the modern Internet.

Philip Crosby found fame on publication of his book Quality is Free, in 1979.

By the 1980’s, the Western culture would take notice of Japan’s success and start to set and adhere to higher Total Quality Management guidelines.

In 1981, the Project Management Institute released the Ethics, Standards, and Accreditation project report.

As unwelcome as this message may have been, by 1985 the changes that Deming had introduced contributed to Ford becoming the most profitable US auto company.

In their paper, 'The New New Product Development Game' (Harvard Business Review, 1986) Takeuchi and Nonaka named Scrum as a project management style.

The ISO 9000 series of quality-management standards, for example, were published in 1987.

In 1988 a major step forward in quality management was made with the development of the Malcolm Baldrige Award in the United States.

In 1989, EVM leadership was elevated to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, thus making EVM an essential part of programme management and procurement.

Rapid Application Development was developed by 1991 and development of Crystal Methods began the same year.

In response to this, a similar model was developed by the European Foundation of Quality Management in 1992.

1994: ISO releases the first revision of the ISO 9001 standards.

Beginning in 1995, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award added a business results criterion to its measures of applicant success.

However, the PRINCE method developed a reputation for being too unwieldy, too rigid and applicable only to large projects, leading to a revision in 1996.

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recognises PMBOK as a standard in 1998, and later that year by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

The project was delivered in budget, in scope and on time (Moore 1999) and it still remains one of the highest gravity dams in the United States generating more than four billion KW over a year.

In 2000, the ISO 9000 series of quality management standards was revised to increase emphasis on customer satisfaction.

In February 2001, 17 software developers met at The Lodge, Snowbird, Utah resort to discuss lightweight software development methods.

The Centre for Organisational Excellence Research (COER), recognised the need for resources devoted to this area and launched the BPIR.com in April 2002.

According to (Kwak, 2003), project management has been used for thousand years since the Greek and Egyptian times.

AACE continued its pioneering work in 2006, releasing the first integrated process for portfolio, programme and project management with their Total Cost Management Framework.

So how Project management was evolved? As it is shown in Figure 1 below there was a great influence from Puritans (Whitty & Schulz, 2007). Puritans by default believed that the world operates in a form of chaos and that there is a need for borderline restructuring.

2008: The third revision of ISO 9001 is released.

In September 2012, the International Organisation for Standardisation published "ISO 21500:2012, Guidance on Project Management". It is the result of five year's work by experts from more than 50 countries.

Project Management Institute (2013), A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge — Fifth Edition, Project Management Institute Inc.

2015: ISO 9001:2015 is released and becomes a guideline for organization-level quality management systems, and closer to a TQM model.

Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK guide) (6th ed.). Project Management Institute.

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