Project Management

Programme Highlights:

• Overview of project management, different stages of a project and slippages in projects.
• Network Techniques: Activity, events, drawing of networks, critical path, float, methods to find critical path.
• PERT: Uncertainty, estimation of activity time, network simulation, project completion probability.
• Project Resource Planning: Resource aggregation, resource profile, resource smoothing
• Behavioural Aspects in Project Management: Project organisation structure, management of project personnel motivation, project manager's role, etc.
• Project Monitoring: Hierarchy of networks, reporting formats, reporting frequency, Earned Value Method and Earned Schedule Method.
• Contract Management and Legal Aspects: Specification of contracts, criteria for awarding contracts, follow-up and coordination.
• Project Risk Management: Composite impact factor, composite likelihood factor, expected value method.
• Variation, foreseen and unforeseen uncertainties.
• Discussion on some excellent project management cases in India.

Course Objectives:

• To develop an understanding of the tools and techniques for effective management of resources and cost in projects
• To expose participants to the behavioural aspects of project management
• To provide an insight into the network-based project monitoring system
• To discuss various aspects related to contract management, project costing, budgeting and other related topics .
• To acquaint participants with project uncertainty and risk management.