Project Management : Planning, Execution, Evaluation And Control

By Prof. Sanjib Chowdhury | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 4860 | Exam registration: 1037

ABOUT THE COURSE:
Projects are the modus operandi of implementing organizational strategy and achieving strategic goals and objectives. Its importance is well-acknowledged and pervasive in the business world such as construction, engineering, mining, hi-tech, electronics, logistics, defense forces, product development, R&D, and so on. Project management has developed to the point where it is a professional discipline having its own body of knowledge and skills. In order to achieve business excellence, it is necessary to develop expertise in project planning, executing, evaluating, and managing projects. The course would help the academics as well as practicing managers and professionals to learn modern project management tools and techniques, scheduling of activities, resources and cost; and enhance their skills in expediting projects by prudently crashing certain activities. It would also provide them a holistic view of project management covering among others project risk and quality management, procurement and contract management, communication management, developing leadership skills and managing PM team, project performance evaluation, project audit and closure. More importantly, the course would help the participants to familiarize with and proficient in using MS Project®.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Management and Engineering students (MBA, BE, ME),academics, practicing managers and professionals at various levels;Commerce, Cost and Chartered Accountancy, and related disciplines.

PREREQUISITES: Must be a graduate in management, engineering,science, commerce, or equivalent degree

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: All organizations be it Government or non- Government, profit or non-profit, business or charity, manufacturing or service, utility or IT, military and others need Project Management for planning, financing, implementation, evaluation, and control of projects to accomplish their long- term goals and objectives of their organizations.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	24 Jul 2023
End Date :	15 Sep 2023
Enrollment Ends :	07 Aug 2023
Exam Registration Ends :	21 Aug 2023
Exam Date :	24 Sep 2023 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

Page Visits

Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Project Management, Basic Concepts, and Project Life Cycle Management
Organization Strategy, Project Analysis and Project selection

Week 2: Project Management Organization structure and organization culture
Project Definition, Activities, Work Breakdown structure

Week 3: Project time and cost estimation, Time Management
Developing Project Plan; Network Analysis using PERT/ CPM technique

Week 4: Resource Management and Cost Management: Resource levelling, Scheduling and allocating project resources and costs

Week 5: Reducing Project duration - Crashing project activities to speed up a project
Project Risk Management - Identification, quantification, and mitigation of risks

Week 6: Project Outsourcing, Negotiation, and Managing inter-organizational Relations
Project Procurement and Contract Management

Week 7: Project Evaluation, Project progress and Performance Management
Project Closure, and Project Oversight

Week 8: Familiarization with Project Management software (e.g., MS Project®)
Recapitulation

Books and references

1. Project Management – The Managerial Process, Gray, C.F., Larson, E.W., and Joshi, R., McGraw Hill Education, 8 th edition.
2. Project Management – Achieving Competitive advantage, Jeffrey K. Pinto, Pearson Publishing Ltd., 5 th edition.
3. Project Management: A Managerial Approach, Meredith, J.R. and Mantel, S.J., Wiley, PMBOK® Guidelines Book
4. Successful Project Management, Gido, J. and Clements, J.P., Cengage Learning, 6th edition.
5. Project Management for Business and Technology – Principles and Practice, John M. Nicholas, Prentice-Hall of India Ltd.
6. Projects Planning, Analysis, Selection, Implementation & Review, Prasanna Chandra, Tata-McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
7. Project Management, ICFAI University, Hyderabad.

Instructor bio

Prof. Sanjib Chowdhury

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Sanjib Chowdhury holds B. Tech., M. Tech., and Ph. D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management all from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has 39 years of work experience including 5 years in academics and 34 years in two major oil companies in India and Kuwait in cross-functional areas of: Strategic and Corporate Planning, Business Performance Improvement, Optimization of operations and processes, Project Management, HR and General Management. He is currently a full time Visiting Faculty at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur.He is the recipient of Kuwait Gulf Oil Company’s Ideal Employee Award, ONGC Chairman’s Award, ONGC Director’s Award to mention a few. Based on his work experience, he has authored a book titled “Optimization and Business Improvement studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry”, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, USA, August 2016 ; he has also published several technical papers in journals of repute ".

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: 24 September 2023 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team