What is project management?

 In reality, of course, the pyramids were built by people: a gargantuan undertaking in which workers (generally believed to be Egyptian farmers unable to tend their land due to adverse weather) would have needed to communicate seamlessly, set deadlines and manage their workloads with razor-sharp organization.

Bosses would have needed to identify bottlenecks and resourcing to ensure things continued apace without delays. Materials would need to be ready at the right time for the right people to put them in the right place. And every person would have to own their own part of that process.

They almost certainly wouldn’t have talked about project management. But then, as now, the same principles guided the success of the whole computer engineering careers.

And when you strip everything down to its bare bones, the same core principles essentially govern the success (or failure) of every project, before, since - and in the future.