PR670

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

 

Project development cycle - Objectives of investment decision making – Technical analysis.


Materials and inputs – production technology – product mix – plant capacity – location and site – machinery and equipment – structures and civil works – project charts and layouts.


Costing - Financial and economic appraisal of single project – multiple projects and constraints – method of ranking – mathematical programming approach – LP, ILP and goal programming model.


Portfolio theory and capital asset pricing model approaches to risk analysis - Network techniques for project management – PERT, CPM.


Introduction to Software Project Management (SPM) - Software Metrics – Software quality – Risk management in SPM- Emerging issues.


REFERENCE

  1. Choudhury, S.,’Project management’, Tata McGraw Hill, 1988.

  2. Prasanna Chandra, ‘Project Management’, Tata McGraw Hill, 1986.

  3. Walker Royce, Software project management, Addison Wesley, Pearson Education.