A project has discrete steps budgeted into time, and it is in finite steps that project management can go awry. Someone who has never run the kind of project being detailed is likely to assign steps and values that are unrealistic. Therefore, project management is best done by someone who has completed a similar project before and knows the steps that go into it. Like many management principles, project management isn’t new. Henry Laurence Gantt, a mechanical engineer and disciple of scientific management first published the Gantt chart in 1910. The Gantt chart has been.
