BA4065 Project Management for Infrastructure Syllabus:
BA4065 Project Management for Infrastructure Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
To impart projects types, time & resource management, resource optimization and new trends in project management.
UNIT I PROJECT AND ITS PROCESS
Define project and process -Boundaries of project – Objectives and functions of project management -Characteristics and types of projects -Organization structure / styles -Roles of project management group – Project management office and its role – Project knowledge area – Project integration- Process group interaction -project flow – Project life cycle Influencing factors. – Case study.
UNIT II PROJECT TIME MANAGEMENT
Project scope management – Work break down structure – Activity/Task – Events – Case study – Project planning tools – Rolling wave planning – Gantt charts, Milestone chart, Program progress chart- Creating milestone plan – Project network- Fulkerson’s rules – A-OA and A-O-N networks – Analyze project time- Critical path method (deterministic approach) – Activity oriented network analysis- 80-20 rule- Case study – Type of time estimates & square network diagram – Project updating and monitoring- Case study – Estimate time- Program Evaluation & Review Technique (Probabilistic approach)- Event oriented network analysis Optimistic, pessimistic and most likely time – Degree of variability in average time – Probabilistic estimate – % utilization of resources.
UNIT III RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Types of Resource- Time, Men, Material, Machinery, Money, Space – Balancing of resource – Resource smoothing technique- Time constraint – Resource leveling technique- Resource constraint- Case study.
UNIT IV RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION
Types of cost – Direct, indirect and total cost – Variation of cost with time – Schedule compression techniques- Crashing, fast tracking & Re-estimation- Crash time and crash cost – Optimize project cost for time and resource – CPM cost model – Life cycle assessment – Impacts and economical assessment – Life cycle cost- Maintenance and operation -Life cycle forecasting – Concept and applications.
UNIT V EMERGING TRENDS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
AGILE Project management and Project Management using latest tools- Case study.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to
Explain the concept of projects, its process, objectives and functions of project management
Analyze and manage time in projects through gantt charts, cpm and pert techniques
Balance resource requirements of projects so as to avoid idling of resources
Update projects and determine revised schedule of activities and critical path, if any
Crash projects to determine its optimum time-minimum cost relationships
REFERENCES
1. “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) – Fourth Edition, An American National Standard, ANSI/PMI 990001-2008”
2. A Risk Management Standard, AIRMIC Publishers, ALARM, IRM: 2002
3. Gene Dixon, “Service Learning and Integrated Collaborative Project Management”, Project Management Journal, DOI:10.1002/pmi, February 2011, pp.42-58
4. Jerome D. Wiest and Ferdinand K. Levy, “A Management Guide to PERT/CPM”, Prentice Hall of India Publishers Ltd., New Delhi, 1994.
5. Punmia B. C. and Khandelwal K.K., “Project Planning and Control with PERT/CPM”, Laxmi publications, New Delhi, 1989.
6. Srinath L.S., “PERT & CPM- Principles and Applications”, Affiliated East West Press Pvt., Ltd., New Delhi, 2008
7. Sengupta. B and Guha. H, “Construction Management and Planning”, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1995
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