Introduction:
Definition of project, characteristics of projects, understandprojects, types of projects, scalability of project tools, project roles
Project Selection And Prioritization –
Strategic planning process, Strategicanalysis, strategic objectives, portfolio alignment – identifying potentialprojects, methods of selecting projects, financial mode / scoring models toselect projects, prioritizing projects, securing and negotiating projects.
Planning Projects:
Defining the project scope, Project scope checklist, Project priorities, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Integrating WBS with organisation, coding the WBS for the information system.
Scheduling Projects:
Purpose of a project schedule, historical development,how project schedules are limited and created, develop project schedules,uncertainty in project schedules, Gantt chart.
Resourcing Projects:
Abilities needed when resourcing projects, estimateresource needs, creating staffing management plant, project teamcomposition issues, Budgeting Projects: Cost planning, cost estimating, cost budgeting, establishing cost control.
Project Risk Planning:
Risk Management Planning, risk identification, riskanalysis, risk response planning, Project Quality Planning and ProjectKickoff: Development of quality concepts, project quality management plan, project quality tools, kickoff project, baseline and communicate projectmanagement plan, using Microsoft Project for project baselines.
Performing Projects:
Project supply chain management: - Plan purchasingand acquisitions, plan contracting, contact types, project partnering andcollaborations, project supply chain management.
Project Progress and Results:
Project Balanced ScorecardApproach, Internal project, customer, financial issues, Finishing the project: Terminateproject early, finish projects on time, secure customer feedback and approval,knowledge management, perform administrative and contract closure.
Network Analysis
Introduction, network construction - rules, Fulkerson’s rule for numbering the events, AON and AOA diagrams; Critical path method (CPM) to find the expected completion time of a project, floats; PERTfor finding expected duration of an activity and project, determining the probability of completing a project, predicting the completion time of project; crashing of simple projects.
Course Outcomes
On completion of the course the student will be able to
1. Understand the selection, prioritization and initiation of individual projects and strategic role of project management.
2. Understand the work breakdown structure by integrating it with organization.
3. Understand the scheduling and uncertainty in projects.
4. Students will be able to understand risk management planning using project quality tools.
5. Understand the activities like purchasing, acquisitions, contracting, partnering and collaborations related to performing projects.
6. Determine project progress and results through balanced scorecard approach
7. Draw the network diagram to calculate the duration of the project and reduce it using crashing.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Project Management, Timothy J Kloppenborg, Cengage Learning, Edition 2009.
2. Project Management, A systems approach to planning scheduling and controlling by Harold kerzner, CBS publication. Project Management by S Choudhury, Mc Graw Hill Education (India) Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, 2016
REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Project Management, Pennington Lawrence, Mc Graw hill
2. Project Management, AModer Joseph and Phillips New Yark Van Nostrand, Reinhold.
3. Project Management,Bhavesh M. Patal, Vikas publishing House,