Course Syllabus
Introduction to project management processes – Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing processes; Project Integration Management; Project Scope Management; Project Time Management – Activity definition – work breakdown structure, Activity sequencing – scheduling logic, precedence diagramming method, arrow diagramming method, Activity duration estimation, Schedule development and analysis – critical path method, program evaluation and review technique, production curves, Linear scheduling method; line-of-balance method. Duration compression, Resource constrained scheduling. Use of Advanced Scheduling Techniques; Scheduling with Uncertain Durations-Calculations for Monte Carlo Schedule Simulations – Schedule control. Techniques for project monitoring and control, Earned value analysis, Schedule and Cost Performance Index, Cumulative S curves. Project Resource Management – Resource aggregation, Resource leveling – method of moments, Resource allocation; Time-cost Tradeoff; Project Quality management; Contract administration, and Contract close-out. Concepts of Lean Construction & Digitalization in Construction.