CHAPTER 7

Classical Project Time Control Techniques

Overview

Although projects have been managed since the dawn of civilization, but the terms, concepts, and techniques of project management only began to be developed around 1910s when one of the most common project scheduling tools, the Gantt bar chart, was popularized. Since then, various techniques of project management have been developed, including many that are used for controlling the time of projects. In Chapter 6, the PCIM project control methodology put forward several of these project time control techniques to support the good practices contained in the PCIM project control methodology for the project control steps of planning, monitoring, reporting, and analyzing. The most common ...

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