Essentials of Project Management(MGT257)
1.Concept of Project Management – characteristics, categories
2.Functions of Project manager, delegation of authority
3.Components of Feasibility report
4.Project cost estimates, project capital cost, project working capital, sources of financing
5.Project implementation schedule
6.Evaluation of the project profitability – pay back period, ROI, NPV, IRR
7.Pre-project activities
8.Project work- system design, work break down structure
9.Project execution plan, scheduling and project coordination
10.Procedure for awarding of contracts
11.General conditions of contracting
12.Tendering and selection of contractor
13.Monitoring project and contracts
14.Project control, expediting and follow up
15.schedule control , cost control, and overall progress control
16.Project management tools-PERT and CPM
17.Concept of Project crash, resource levelling
18.Microsoft project 2007 and its application
Textbooks:
1. S Choudhary, Project Management, Tata McGraw Hill
2. Prasanna Chandra, Projects planning analysis selection implementation & review, 4th ed., Tata McGraw Hill
Additional Readings:
Klastorin, Ted (2003). Project Management: Tools and Trade-offs, 3rd ed., Wiley. ISBN 978-0471413844.
Kerzner, Harold (2003). Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, 8th Ed., Wiley. ISBN 0-471-22577-0.
Ilosevic, Dragan Z. (2003). Project Management ToolBox: Tools and Techniques for the Practicing Project Manager. Wiley. ISBN 978-0471208228.