Tag: Ancient Egypt
The Pharaoh’s Ledger — How Ancient Egypt Perfected Project Cost Management
1. Setting the Stage: A Civilization Built on Projects Ancient Egypt was more than a kingdom — it was a perpetual construction site. Temples, tombs, canals, and cities rose from the desert, each demanding meticulous planning and disciplined execution.But none rivaled the scale or ambition of the Great Pyramid of Giza — 146 meters tall,…
The Library That Wanted to Contain the World — A Lesson in Scope Management from Ancient Alexandria
1. When Curiosity Became a Project More than 2,300 years ago, in the thriving Egyptian port city of Alexandria, a king named Ptolemy I Soter envisioned a structure that would immortalize knowledge itself.His dream? To build a library that would gather everything ever written — philosophy, mathematics, poetry, astronomy, medicine, even ship logs. It wasn’t…
