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Project Management

Project management is the structured practice of planning, executing, and closing work to achieve specific goals within budget and time constraints. It involves defining project scope, managing resources, and utilizing methodologies like Agile or Waterfall to turn ideas into deliverables. Key tools include Gantt charts and project management software like Asana or Trello.

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Course Title: Project Management

Course No: CT 701

Nature of the Course: THEORY

Semester: 6

Full Marks: 80 + 20

Pass Marks: 32 + 8

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

Course Objectives

Course Contents

1. Introduction

2 hrs

1.1. Definition of project and project management

1.2. Project objectives

1.3. Classification of projects

1.4. Project life cycle

2. Project Management Body of Knowledge

4 hrs

2.1. Understanding of project environment

2.2. General management skill

Effective and Ineffective Project Managers

2.3. Essential interpersonal and managerial skills

Energized and initiator

Communication, influencing, leadership

Motivator, negotiation, problem solver

Perspective nature, result oriented, global illiteracies

Problem solving using problem trees

2.4. Problem solving using problem trees

3. Portfolio and Project Management Institutes’ (PMI) Framework

2 hrs

3.2. Project management office

3.3. Drivers of project success

3.4. Inhibitors of project success

4. Project Management

4 hrs

4.1. Advantages of project management

4.2. Project management context as per PMI

4.3. Characteristics of project life cycles, representative project life cycles, IT Product Development Life Cycle, Product Life Cycle and Project Life Cycle

4.4. System Development methodologies

4.5. Role and Responsibilities of key project members

5. Project and Organizational Structure

2 hrs

5.1. System view of project management

5.2. Functional organization, matrix organization

5.3. Organizational structure influences on projects

6. Project Management Process Groups

2 hrs

6.1. Project management processes

6.2. Overlaps of process groups in a phase, mapping of project management process groups to area of knowledge

7. Project Integration Management

4 hrs

7.1. Develop project charters, develop preliminary project scope statement

7.2. Develop project management plan, direct and manage project execution, monitor and control project work

7.3. Integrated change control, close project, project scope management

7.4. Create Work Break Down Structure

7.5. Scope verification

7.6. Scope control

8. Project Time Management

4 hrs

8.1. Activity definition, decomposition of activities, activity attributes

8.2. Activity sequencing, precedence relationship, network diagram, precedence diagram method, arrow diagramming method

8.3. Activity resources estimating, determining resource requirements

8.4. Schedule development and control, principles of scheduling, milestones, forward pass, backward pass, critical path method, critical chain technique, Gantt chart, schedule control

9. Project Cost Management

4 hrs

9.1. Cost and project, cost management

9.2. Cost estimating, types of cost estimates, estimating process and accuracy, enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets, cost estimating tools

9.3. Cost budgeting, cost aggregation, deriving budget from activity cost

9.4. Cost control process, cost control methods, earned value management

9.5. EVM benefits, variance analysis

10. Project Quality Management

3 hrs

10.1. Quality theories

10.2. Quality planning, project quality requirements, cost of quality, quality management plan

10.3. Quality assurance, quality audit, approach to a quality audit

10.4. Quality control process, control chart, Pareto charts, testing of IT system, the test life cycle

11. Project Communication Management

3 hrs

11.1. Importance of communication management

11.2. Communications planning process, communication requirement analysis, organizing and conducting effective meeting

11.3. Information distribution process

11.4. Performance reporting process, integrated reporting system

12. Project Risk Management

4 hrs

12.1. Understanding Risk, project risk

12.2. Risk management planning process, risk management plan

12.3. Risk identification, risk identification techniques

12.4. Qualitative risk analysis process

12.5. Quantitative risk analysis process, modeling techniques

12.6. Risk response planning, resolution of risk, strategies for negative risks or threats, strategies for positive risks or opportunities

12.7. Risk monitoring and control process

13. Project Procurement Management

3 hrs

13.1. Procurement management process flow

13.2. Plan purchases and acquisition process, enterprise environmental factor, organizational process assets

13.3. Plan contracting process, standard forms, evaluation criteria

13.4. Request seller response process

13.5. Select seller process

13.6. Contract administration process

13.7. Contract closure process

14. Developing Custom Processes for IT projects

3 hrs

14.1. Developing IT project management methodology

14.2. Moving forward with customized management processes

14.3. Certified associate in project management

14.4. Project management maturity

14.5. Promoting project Excellency through awards and assessment

14.6. Certification process flow

14.7. Code of ethics

14.8. Future trends

15. Balanced scorecard and ICT project management

1 hrs

Reference Books

1.M. C. Christensen and R.H. Thayer, 'The Project Manager’s Guide to Software Engineering’s Best Practices', IEEE Computer Society
2.Clifford F. Gray, Erik W. Larson, 'Project Management: The Management Process', McGraw Hill
3.Nick Jenkins, 'A Project Management Primer'
4.Trevor L. Young, 'A handbook of Project Management', Kogan Page India Private Ltd
5.M. Gentle, 'Balance Supply and Demand', Compuware
6.Kelkar, 'IT Project Management'

Notes:

Source:

This course equips students to plan, monitor, and control projects and project-related activities, providing theoretical and practical foundations of project management in IT/ICT environments.

To make students able to plan, monitor, and control projects and project-related activities effectively.

There may be minor deviation in marks distribution.