Project Management
Project Management
Objectives: This course enables the students to get enrich in the concepts of project
management and to help the students in project planning and scheduling.
Unit I
Concepts of Project Management; Project – Meaning – Nature – Types of project and
project life cycle – Project management – Nature and scope of project management –
Project management as a profession – Role of project manager.
Unit II
Project Identification and Formation: Project environment – Identification of investment
opportunities – Projects screening – Preferability study – Project selection – Project
formulation – Stages in project formulation – Project report preparation – Planning
Commission’s guidelines for project formulation.
Unit III
Project Appraisal: Objectives, essentials of a project methodology – Market appraisal –
Technical appraisal – Financial appraisal – Socio – economic appraisal – Management
appraisal.
Unit IV
Project Planning and Scheduling : Objectives – Process or Planning Components or good
planning – Project designing and project scheduling and time estimation – Scheduling to
match availability of man power and release of funds – Cost and time trade cost.
Unit V
Project Execution and Administration – Project contracting: Contract pricing, types –
Project organisation: Forms of organisation – Project direction – Project communication
– Project co ordination – Factors influencing effective project management – project time
monitoring and cost monitoring – Project over runs. Project Control : Control techniques
– PERT, CPM - Proper review – Project audit.
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Recommended Text book
Suggested Readings
1) Project Management by CCI Pfor D.F. Gray and Erik .w Carson – Tata Mcgraw Hill
Co.
2) Project Management – Management extra series – ANE books
E-mail : [email protected]
3) Text book of project management by P. Gopalakrishnan & VE. Ramamoorthy
Macmillan India Ltd.,
4) Projects, Planning, analysis, selection financing, Implementation and Review by
Prasanna Chandra – Tata Mcgraw Hill Co.
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