For all the PMs out there:
Rome kept an empire running for centuries
Roads, aqueducts, supply chains
All of it planned and executed by hand
Half of that was just project management
The first project manager in history worked in 2560 BC.
Hemiunu, aka “Overseer of All the King’s Works.”
No software. No Gantt chart. No Slack.
Just 2.3M stone blocks and a deadline.
The tools changed.
The job didn’t.