'Project Management' is a course offered in the B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Foundations of Project Management: Project Life Cycle - Project Environment - Project Selection - Project Proposal - Project Scope - Work Breakdown Structure.
Network Scheduling: Critical Path Method, Project Evaluation & Review Technique - Planning and Scheduling of Activity Networks -Assumptions in PERT Modelling – Time-cost Trade-offs – Linear Programming and Network Flow Formulations - PERT/CPM.
Unit 2
Scheduling with limited resources: Resource Planning - Resource allocation - Project Schedule Compression - Project Scheduling Software. Precedence Diagrams - Decision CPM - Generalized Activity Networks - GERT.
Unit 3
Estimation of Project Costs: Earned Value Analysis. Monitoring Project Progress. Project Appraisal and Selection - Recent Trends in Project Management.
- Meredith Jack R. and Samuel J. Mantel Jr. - ‘Project Management- A Managerial Approach’ - John Wiley - 1995
- Ted K. - ‘Project Management, Tools, and Trade-offs’ - John Wiley - 2004
- Samuel J. M. and Meredith J. R. - ‘Core Concepts of Project Management’ - John Wiley - 2001
