Starting in the early 1990s the FCO-IM method and theory steadily emerged out of the method NIAM. Many articles, books, tools and research material have been made public during that time.

Professor Guido Bakema, one of the founding fathers for FCO-IM, has collected many articles, author names and references and handed over the draft article which was used to assemble this timeline for public use. This timeline mentions publications from the very first article by Harm van der Lek and Guido Bakema 'Objects are actually facts' (dated 1992) up to the research and developments on the data warehouse transformations in StarBridge by Elton Manoku in 2002 and beyond.