KAUSHALYA – THE SKILL UNIVERSITY
School of Science, Manufacturing & Infrastructure
B. Sc. Steel Technology
Course Title Project Management Credits 4
Course
Course Code GE L-T-P 4-0-0
Category
Learning
Level
Course ➢ The course aims to impart basic skills of Project management & its various
Objective aspects.
Course Outcomes
➢ Demonstrate the fundamentals of project management its organization.
➢ Utilize the concepts of project organizing, project planning and it’s budgeting.
➢ Analyze the project network and resource allocation in projects.
➢ Illustrate the project monitoring and control.
➢ Choose evaluating and terminating the Project.
Details of Modules
No of Teaching Prior
Modules Content/ Topic
Hours Methodology Reading
Definition of project, Project
Management Vs. General Management,
three goals of project, the life cycle of
Project Lecture/
projects, selecting projects to meet 10 -
Management Seminar
organizational goals, Confronting
Uncertainty, Project portfolio process, An
approach to Project Formulation
The PM’s Roles, The PM’s responsibility
to the project, Selection of a Project
Organizing the Lecture/
Manager, Project Management as a 07 -
project Seminar
profession, Fitting projects into the parent
organization, The project team
The contents of a project plan, the
planning process-overview, the planning
Planning the process- Nuts and Bolts, the work Lecture/
07 -
project breakdown structure and other aids, Seminar
Multidisciplinary Teams Balancing
Pleasure, and Pain
Methods of budgeting, Cost estimating,
Budgeting the Lecture/
Improving Cost Estimates, Budget 05 -
Project Seminar
Uncertainty, and risk management
The Gantt chart, Scheduling the Project
Project
PERT and CPM Networks, Project Lecture/
Network 12 -
uncertainty and risk management, Seminar
Theory
Simulation, Extensions to PERT/CPM
Expediting a Project, Resource Loading,
Resource Levelling, Allocating Scarce
Allocating the
resources to projects, allocating several Lecture/
Resources to 09 -
resources to the several projects, Seminar
the Project
Goldratt’s critical chain, Crashing the
Project network
Monitoring The plan-monitor-control cycle, Data
and collection and reporting, earned value, Lecture/
05 -
Controlling the project control, Designing the control Seminar
Project system, Scope creep and change control
Evaluating and
Evaluation, Project Auditing, Project Lecture/
Terminating 05 -
Termination Seminar
the Project
Reference Books
➢ Project Management by Samuel J. Mantel, Jr., Jack R. Meredith, Scott M. Shafer,
Margaret M. Sutton with M. R. Gopalan (WILEY-INDIA)
➢ Project Management and Appraisal by Sitangshu Khatua (Oxford)
➢ Operations Research: Principles and Practice by Pradeep Prabhakar Pai, Oxford Higher
Education, Oxford University press
➢ Quantitative Techniques in Management by N D Vohra, Tata McGraw-Hill
➢ Project Management: A Managerial Approach by Meredith (Author), Mantel (Author),
Shafer (Author)
Evaluation Pattern
Continuous Evaluation (Internal & 50% Weightage)
➢ Attendance
➢ Assignments
➢ PPT Presentations
End Semester Examination (External & 50% Weightage)
➢ Theory Examination
➢ Practical Examination
