AALL10 · Chapter 10Project Planning & Implementation🏛️ Past Licensure QuestionID: 3bc973e5
Historically, which project planning and scheduling technique was developed first?
Historically, which project planning and scheduling technique was developed first?
Multiple Choice Options
- A✓ Correct Option
The Bar Chart / Gantt Chart (developed by Karol Adamiecki and Henry Gantt in the 1910s)
- B
Critical Path Method (CPM, developed by DuPont in 1957)
- C
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT, developed by US Navy in 1958)
- D
Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM, developed in the 1960s)
Detailed Technical Solution & Explanation
The Gantt Chart (and Adamiecki's Harmonogram) was invented during World War I in the 1910s, predating network-based techniques (CPM in 1957 and PERT in 1958) by over 40 years.
Option Analysis:
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Option A (The Bar Chart / Gantt Chart (develope...): Correct. The earliest systematic project scheduling method.
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Option B (Critical Path Method (CPM, developed ...): Developed four decades after Gantt charts.
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Option C (Program Evaluation and Review Techniq...): Developed for the Polaris missile program.
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Option D (Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM, d...): Developed after CPM.
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