Project Management and Practices
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The official GTU curriculum for Project Management and Practices (subject code 3714604) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 39 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3714604)Unit 1 Introduction
- Concept of a Project
- Difference between Project Management and General Management
- Life Cycles of Projects
- Project Formulation Approach
- Different Project Organizations Project Manager (Essentials and Responsibilities)
- Project Team
Unit 2 Planning and Budgeting the Project
- Contents of a Project Plan
- The Planning Process
- Work Breakdown Structure and Other Tools
- Types of Budgeting (Top- Down and Bottom-Up)
- Cost Estimating
- Risk Management
Unit 3 Investment Appraisal
- Social Cost Benefit Analysis
- UNIDO Approach
- Net Benefit in Terms of Economic Prices
- Measurement of Impact on Distribution
- Savings Impact and its Value
- Income Distribution Impact
- Adjustment For Merit and Demerit
- Goods Little Mirrless Approach
- Shadow Prices
- Financial and Economic Appraisal of Single Project
- Multiple Projects and Constraints
- Method of Ranking – Mathematical Programming Approach – LP, ILP and Goal Programming Model
- Project Cash Flows –Investment Criteria- Net Present Value
- Cost Benefit Ratio
- Internal Rate Of Return
- Pay Back Period
- Accounting Rate of Return
Unit 4 Project Scheduling and Resource Allocation
- PERT and CPM Networks (Different Analysis)
- Project Uncertainty and Risk Management
- Resource Loading/Leveling
- Allocating Scarce Resources to Projects
- Complexity of Project Scheduling With Limited Resources
- Leveling The Demands on Key Resources
- A Simple Heuristic Program for Resource Allocation
- Time-Cost Trade Off Procedure: Schedule Related Project Costs
- Lowest Cost Schedule
- Goldratt’s Critical Chain Approach