An Infographic of the history of some known organizations in project management and product development

1. Project Management & Organizations
The Evolution of
1975
1980
1988
1990s
1996
1998
The PMI nonprofit outlines its
goals: “Foster recognition of
the need for professionalism
in project management"
First standardized PMI
project management
procedures and
approaches together
with ANSI and IPMA
The “timebox” is described
as a cornerstone of Scott
Schultz’s “Rapid Iterative
Production Prototyping”
approach
PMI triples its
membership to
90,000 in 120
countries
First Project
Management Body of
Knowledge (PMBOK)
INTERNET changes
its name to IPMA
PMI makes PMP certification
globally available; first
German chapter founded in
Munich
IPMA starts with certification
of individuals and publishes
ICB v1.0
2001
Agile Manifesto
written by 17
software
industry experts
in Utah
2003
Mary and Tom
Poppendieck’s book ”Lean
Software Development”
describes the Agile task
board as a “software
kanban system”
2017
PMI publishes
Agile Practice
Guide
2019 PMI acquires
Disciplined Agile
1964
5 people from France, the
Netherlands, and Germany
discuss the Critical Path Method
(CPM). Suggestion to form an
INTERnational NETwork, the
INTERNET (official name starting
from 1965)
First International
European INTERNET
Congress in Vienna
1967
1969
Project Management
becomes a discipline in
aerospace, construction
and defense industries -
first formal PMI meeting
in PA by the 5 founders
1991
RAD and “iterations”
are closely combined,
book published by
James Martin
1993-
95
Jeff Sutherland invents
Scrum at Easel Corporation.
He and Ken Schwaber and
co-present Scrum at the
OOPSLA Conference in 1995
2020
4 PMI Germany
Chapters merge
into one
2015
IPMA celebrates 50
years, launches
ICB4 and brings out
Strategy 2020