The project management board, the USA manufacturing PMI was established in 1969. This association, in 1976, decided, comments, project managers documented that the result of this activity in 1987 under the title Project Management Body Of Knowledge was published.

in 1996, the first official version of the standard PMBOK was published in 1999, to confirm the ANSI hit.

at the end of 2004 over one million copies of the book Guide PMBOK had been sold, and close to 75000 people a diploma, PMP have received.