<P> In 1965, there was a new improvement in project management technology . The US department of defense presented the work breakdown structure (WBS) to dissolve projects to even smaller visual units, organizing them in hierarchical tree structure . WBS was an inspiration for Winston Royce's Waterfall Method (1970) where management phases are organized in a way which doesn't allow a new task to begin before the previous ones are completed . </P> <P> In the period between 1965 and 1969 were formed two of the leading project management associations: the International Project Management Association (IPMA) in Europe, and the Project Management Institute (PMI) which trains project management professionals and issues certificates . With business shifting towards technology - based and paperless methods, the first project management systems started to emerge . Oracle and Artemis launched their project managers in 1977, while Scitor Corporation did the same in 1979 . Many improvements followed in the upcoming decades: in 1986, Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute introduced capability maturity software, a five - level project management method for rapidly maturing processes, while in 1988 users met earned value management which added processes' scope and cost to the schedule . The trend continued with PRINCE2 (1996) which increased the number of processes to seven, because of which developers considered designing products for managing complex projects . In 2001, they adopted the Agile project management concept, and focused on adaptive planning and flexible response to changes . In 2006, users were already able to trigger total cost management, a framework that helps controlling and reducing costs in project management . </P> <P> The SaaS (software - as - a-service) trend began in 2008, qualified by users as the most flexible type of project management software for their teams . In 2009, US News classified project management as one of the most demanded skills for obtaining a well - paid job . </P> <P> From 2010 on, the most popular project management solutions were cloud - based, designed for the needs of virtual teams looking to access information from any location or device . As a result, 2012 brought the first mobile project management apps users can apply on the go . </P>

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