AKTU Introduction to Project Management (MNPM401) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Minor Degree in Project Management

Course Objectives

1. To help students understand Project Management: Concepts, Life Cycle, and Manager Roles.
2. To provide assistance in Idea Generation, Feasibility, Team Dynamics; apply Execution Monitoring.
3. To help students to handle project in team by using leadership style.
4. To provide insights into Appraisal Techniques, Risk Management; help understand Decision Tree Analysis.
5. To assist students in learning Project Scheduling, provide insight into Agile Methodologies, and Tools.

Unit 1: Introduction to Project Management (6 Sessions)

Concept of Project: Meaning, Characteristics, Classification of Projects, Project Life Cycle and Phases. Project Selection criteria, Project Management and Line Management. Project Manager:

Roles and Responsibilities, Project Management as a Profession.

Unit-II: Project Execution and Monitoring (8 Sessions)

Generating and Screening Ideas – Steps, Monitoring the Environment, Scouting for Project Ideas, Preliminarily Screening, Project Rating Index. Feasibility Studies – Technical, Financial, Economic, Social, Legal and Managerial. Team formation and roles, Communication and leadership in project management, Resource allocation and management

Unit 3: Financial Estimates and Projections (10 Sessions)

Project cost estimation & working capital requirements, Sources of funds (Equity, debentures, term loans & their Cost of Capital, Projected Cash Flow Statement & fund flow statement, Projected Income statement and Balance sheet ,Capital budgeting decisions – Payback Period, Accounting Rate of Return, NPV, Internal Rate of Return and BCR Method. (We can cover this topic in project financing, instead we can include one unit of leadership and teamwork)

Unit 4: Project Appraisal and Risk Management techniques (8 Sessions)

Project Appraisal Techniques: Objectives, Types and Methods, Environmental appraisal, Market appraisal (including market survey for forecasting future demand and sales)

Unit 5: Agile techniquesin Project Management ( 8 Sessions)

Introduction to Agile and its principles, Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile methodologies, Agile project management tools, Agile vs. Traditional project management CASE STUDY DISCUSSION

Suggested Readings

1. Project Management - Choudhary - TataMcGraw Hill Pub.
2. Project Management: The Managerial Process (Special Indian Edit.) -Clifford F Gray, Oregon
3. State University.
4. Project Management: The Managerial Process" by Clifford F. Gray and Erik W. Larson (Adaptation by Ganesh Vaidyanathan), McGraw Hill Education
5. "Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme" by Robert K. Wysocki (Adaptation by R. Srinivasan), John Wiley & Sons
6. "Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling" by J. S. Chitode,: Technical Publications Pune
7. "Project Management: Planning and Control Techniques" by R. L. Srivastava, New Age International Publishers