the.com/project management
the art of turning a deadline, a budget, and everyone's opinions into one shippable thing.
means the discipline of planning, coordinating, and tracking work so a goal gets delivered on time, on budget, and roughly as promised.
from formalized in the 1950s with tools like the gantt chart and critical path method, born from cold war era megaprojects like the polaris missile program that needed thousands of moving parts to land on one date.
pmi founded1969, by five engineers tired of chaos
iron trianglescope, time, cost, pick two honestly
agile manifestowritten in 2001 by 17 rebels, one weekend
failure ratestudies say most large it projects still overrun
for instance
apollo program — nasa coordinated 400,000 people to hit a 1969 deadline
sydney opera house — budgeted at 7 million, finished at 102 million, 1973
boeing 787 rollout — outsourced project management led to years of delay
scrum at spotify — squads and tribes model became a startup cliche by 2015