26THE FUTURE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IS COMPLEX
Louis Klein
Beyond success
Project management is a success story. Since project management (PM) began to establish as a professional discipline in the 1950s, especially in engineering, construction, and defence material projects, it became – next to products and processes – one of the three major foci of understanding industry as a business (Klein, 2018). Scientific management lay at the heart of the various models and methods, tools and techniques published first in 1987 and 1996, and eventually comprised in the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge. The manifestation of the PM success story is reflected in the PMI's contemporary ...
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