What if the concept of project management had not existed?

That situation raises several questions. As modern-day project management is roughly 70 years old, what was before that? How were (uncountable) projects delivering structures such as pyramids, mega colosseums, and Eifel tower, just to name a few, completed after all?

At the conceptual level, defining and naming abstractions is an extremely important task for solving day-to-day practical problems. It helps create a common understanding and language and facilitates building knowledge in a structured manner to solve problems and support growth activities.

1) Effort management / Work management or

3) Don’t Ask Me, Get It Done (DAM GID) management [smartly pronounced as: daem gud management].

The above discussion shows that perhaps asking the question, “What if the concept of project management had not existed?” is helpful from two perspectives:

• Given the widespread use and variations that exist, it seems there are several avenues for reflection to develop a new stream of knowledge for the effort management of non-routine tasks. Thinking about the future and asking, ” What if the concept of project management had not existed?” will help in coming up with new ideas about new ways of working on non-routine tasks. We discuss a few of such avenues below:
  1. Surely, one can say that when people complete non-routine tasks, the stakes may not be that high, as is often the case with business-focused projects. But that does not limit or eliminate the usefulness of understanding the behaviours of people when performing non-routine work, as that understanding can be extrapolated to build new ways of working on projects.

     Conclusion:
     Evolution is a natural phenomenon. With the exponential growth of knowledge across various different domains and sciences, people will naturally be interested in the evolution of project management as a domain. One way to examine evolution is to ask the question that is the core of the discussion in this article.