ABSTRACT

The history of design is an integral part of the history of scope management, and scope management is by definition inseparable from project management. Therefore, as soon as one of our distant ancestors decided that attaching a sharp-edged rock to a stick would make the job of killing his next meal so much easier, project scope management was born. For thousands of years afterward, engineering and construction went hand in hand competing to get ahead of each other, sometimes with engineering getting the upper hand and sometimes with architecture leaping forward with a new building design.