Unit 1 Project Management

8 lecture hours

• Definition of project
• Project Management Vs
• General Management
• Three goals of project
• The life cycle of projects
• Selecting projects to meet organizational goals
• Confronting Uncertainty
• Project portfolio process
• An approach to Project Formulation

Unit 2 Organizing the project

6 lecture hours

• The PM’s Roles
• The PM’s responsibility to the project
• Selection of a Project Manager
• Project Management as a profession
• Fitting projects into the parent organization
• The project team

Unit 3 Planning the project

6 lecture hours

• The contents of a project plan
• The planning process-overview
• The planning process- Nuts and Bolts
• The work breakdown structure and other aids
• Multidisciplinary Teams- Balancing Pleasure and Pain

Unit 4 Budgeting the Project

4 lecture hours

• Methods of budgeting
• Cost estimating
• Improving Cost Estimates
• Budget Uncertainty and risk management

Unit 5 Project Network Theory

• Scheduling the Project PERT and CPM Networks
• Project uncertainty and risk management
• The Gantt chart
• Extensions to PERT/CPM

Unit 6 Allocating the Resources to the Project

• Expediting a Project
• Resource Loading
• Resource Leveling
• Allocating Scarce resources to projects
• Allocating several resources to the several projects
• Goldratt’s critical chain
• Crashing the Project network. 04 Subject Code: 3162510