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MODULE 2

KEYWORDS AND PHRASES

EVOLUTION

QUALITY
SCIENTIFIC MODEL MANAGEMENT
GANTT CHART
WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE
PERT-CPM
MATERIALS REQUIREMENT PLANNING
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

DEFINITION OR TERMS
EVOLUTION
is

a development process in which something passes by

degrees to a different stage especially a more advanced or
mature stage

QUALITY

Is a degree or

grade of excellence or worth

SCIENCE MODEL MANAGEMENT

Is the use of scientific methods in management rather than

using the empirical rule of thumb

DEFINITION OR TERMS
GANTT CHART

Is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule, tasks,

and resources needed to complete a job or a project

WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE

Is a detailed task-oriented hierarchical breakdown which

defines the work packages and tasks at a very low level. It is

a tree structure of deliverables and tasks that need to be
perform to complete a project.

DEFINITION OR TERMS
MATERIALS REQUIREMENT PLANNING

Is a scheduling procedure for production processes. It is intended to

simultaneously meet three objectives: ensure materials and products

are available for production and delivery to customers; maintain the
lowest possible level of inventory; and plan manufacturing activities,
delivery schedules and purchasing activities

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Is the process of gathering, storing, and anlyzing information needed for

a specific purpose such as planning or making management decisions. It

involves the collection and management from one or more resources
and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences.

FOUNDERS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

HENRI FAYOL (1841-1925)

Is a French mining engineer, director of mines and

management theorist, who developed the theory of Scientific

Management
He was one of the most influential contributors to modern
concepts of management
Scientific Management is a general theory of business
administration also known as FAYOLISM.

FOUNDERS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

FREDERICK TAYLOR(1856-1915)

Is the Father of Management

He used scientific approach to understand the steps in completing

a product and using money to create added incentive for workers

who exceed the average level of production.
He published a landmark book Principles of Scientific
Management in 1911, where he proposed work methods
designed to increase worker productivity significantly.
This scientific model of management was considered an important
milestone in the evolution of management theory

FOUNDERS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

HENRY GANTT(1861-1919)

Is an associate of Frederick Taylor

He became famous for the Gantt chart is commonly used

today in project management

A Gantt chart graphically displays project schedule depicting
progress in relation to time and often used in planning and
tracking a project
Gantt invented management techniques such as milestone
deliverables, task duration and estimates.

FOUNDERS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

BOOZ-ALLEN AND HAMILTON(1900-1950)
Is the developer of PROGRAM EVALUATION

AND REVIEW
TECHNIQUE(PERT) as part of the United States Navy Polaris missile
submarine program
The PERT is a mathematical model for project management designed
to analyse and represent the tasked involved in completing a given
project .
In conjunction with the development of PERT, Dupont Corporation and
Remington Rand Corporation jointly developed the Critical Path
Method(CPM) to manage plant maintenance projects.
The CPM is mathematically based algorithm for scheduling a set of
project activities