Project Management & Planning

                                                                                       Syllabus

                                                               BBA 402: Project Management & Planning

 Unit-I                                                                          (10 lectures)

Introduction: Meaning and Characteristics of Project; Meaning, Scope, Characteristics, Need & Importance of Project Management; Project Management: Forms of Project Organization, Project Planning, Project Control, Human Aspects of Project Management, Pre-Requisites for Successful Implementation

 Unit-II                                                                           (8 lectures)

Project Planning: Project Identification, Project Formulation, Feasibility Analysis: Financial Appraisal, Socio Cost Benefit Appraisal, Market Appraisal, Phases of Project Life Cycle Generation and Screening of Project Ideas: Generation of Ideas, Monitoring the Environment, Corporate Appraisal, Profit Potential of Industries, Scouting for Project Ideas, Preliminary Screening, Project Rating Index.

 Unit-III                                                                         (10 lectures)

Network Techniques: Development of Project Network, Time Estimation (Simple Practical Problem with EST, EFT, LST, LFT, Total Float), Determination of the Critical Path, Scheduling when Resources are Limited, PERT Model, CPM Model (Simple Practical Problem of Crashing), Network Cost System).

 Unit-IV                                                                           (8 lectures)

Project Review and Administrative Aspects: Control of In-Progress Projects, Post Completion Audits, Abandonment Analysis, Administrative Aspects of Capital Budgeting, Agency Problem, Evaluating the Capital Budgeting System of an Organisation.