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This document outlines the objectives, learning outcomes, units of study, and skills development for a course on project management. The objective is to provide students knowledge in modern project management techniques including the project life cycle, estimating times and costs, managing risks and teams, and monitoring progress. The 5 units of study cover topics like the project life cycle, estimation methods, risk management, managing project teams and outsourcing, and project monitoring and closure. Students will gain skills in tasks like creating work breakdown structures, using network analysis tools, conducting risk analysis, and creating project control reports.

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17Bb304-Project Management

This document outlines the objectives, learning outcomes, units of study, and skills development for a course on project management. The objective is to provide students knowledge in modern project management techniques including the project life cycle, estimating times and costs, managing risks and teams, and monitoring progress. The 5 units of study cover topics like the project life cycle, estimation methods, risk management, managing project teams and outsourcing, and project monitoring and closure. Students will gain skills in tasks like creating work breakdown structures, using network analysis tools, conducting risk analysis, and creating project control reports.

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17BB304-PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Objective of the Course: The objective of this course is to


enable the students to gain knowledge about the modern
project management, project life-cycle, estimation of project
times and costs. This course will develop skills of students in
the area of project management techniques, managing
project risks and teams and out sourcing project works and
monitoring of project progress and project closure; to
acquaint the students about various issues of project
management.

Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to
1. Understand concepts, develop skills and formal project
management processes that are used by
managers to propose, plan secure resources, budget and
lead project teams for successful
completion of their projects.
2. Apply decision tools, frame works and fast experiences to
critically analyze various project
management issues and challenges
3. Initiate actions when needed, make mid – course
adjustments in plans and recover from
unexpected problems.
4. Hone their abilities to build the projecting and implement
the project systematically

UNIT-I
(12 Hours)
Modern Project Management: Project life cycle,
characteristics of Project, drivers of project management,
project governance, project management – a socio technical
approach Project portfolio management system, Project
selection criteria project request for proposal (RFP) defining
the project scope, establishing project priorities, creating
work breakdown structures (WBS)

UNIT-II
(12 Hours)
Estimating project times, costs and project management
techniques: Factors influencing quality estimates, top –
down versus bottom – up estimates, methods for estimation
of project times and costs, bottom – up approaches for
estimating project times and costs
Network Analysis – PERT and CPM – application of
network techniques to engineering simple problems

UNIT-III
(12 Hours)
Managing project risk and scheduling resources and
costs: risk management processes, risk identification, risk
assessment, risk response development
Scheduling resources and costs: overview of resource
scheduling problem, types of resource constrains,
classification of scheduling problem, resource allocation
methods, benefits of scheduling the resources.

UNIT-IV
(12 Hours)
Managing Project Teams and outsourcing Project work:
Five stage team development model, situational factors
affecting team development, building high performance
project team, managing virtual project teams, project team
pitfalls.
Outsourcing project works, best practices in outsourcing
project work

UNIT-V
(12 Hours)
Monitoring and Project closure: Structure of a project
monitoring information system, project control process,
monitoring time performance
Types of project closure wrap – up closure activities: post –
implementation evaluation.

Skill Development:
(These activities are only indicative, the Faculty member
can innovate)
1. Prepare a work break down structure for a given
Project.
2. Apply Network Technique and calculate critical path
for a given Project.
3. Project risk analysis – Identify a project and conduct
risk analysis.
4. Identify a project and list out the major activities that
can be outsourced to the companies .
5. Prepare a project control report for a given project.

Text Book:

1. Clifford F. Gray, Erik W. Larson and


Gowtham.V.Desai “Project Management, the Managerial
Process ” 6e, Mc Graw Hill, 2014.
Reference Books:
1. Merydith, Montel and Gopal “ Project Management”
wiley India
2. Prasanna Chandra, “Projects, Planning, Analysis,
Selection, Financing, Implementation and
Review”, TataMcGraw Hill Company Pvt. Ltd., New
Delhi.
3. L.S Srinath “PERT and CPM” 3e EWP.
4. Subhash Chandra Das “Project Management And
Control” PHI.

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