Project Management Fundamentals, 2nd Edition

PART 1

Introduction and Overview

…it will be seen that the development of a science to replace rule of thumb is in most cases by no means a formidable undertaking, and that it can be accomplished by ordinary, everyday men without any elaborate scientific training; but that, on the other hand, the successful use of even the simplest improvement of this kind calls for records, a system and cooperation where in the past existed only individual effort.

—Frederick Winslow Taylor,The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911, p. 62

To F.W. Taylor, scientific management was a policy of establishing, after scientific study and research, a standard way ...