Project Management

Project management plays a vital role in planning, organizing and controlling various resources and factors for the successful completion of projects within a time frame. This comprehensive text presents the fundamental concepts and principles of project management and provides necessary skills to manage projects effectively. It is designed for postgraduate students of management, commerce, industrial engineering, production engineering and construction management.

The book makes the readers familiar with the objectives of project management and explains project management life cycle, demand forecasting methods, and phases and steps of technology transfer. It discusses cost of capital, estimation of project cost, and feasibility of projects. The text also describes project evaluation and project scheduling techniques, as well as discusses project management software and the impact of projects on the environment. Besides, it gives a detailed description of project audit, project organizational structures and roles of various financial institutions in project management.

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Project Management Life Cycle

3. Demand Forecasting

4. Technology Transfer

5. Estimation of Project Cost

6. Cost of Capital

7. Feasibility Study

8. Bases of Comparison of Project Alternatives

9. Inflation Adjusted Project Selection

10. Modelling Approach for Project Selection

11. Selection of Alternatives Using Simulation

12. Selection of Alternatives having Cash Flows with Probability Distributions

13. Evaluation of Public Alternatives

14. Vendor Evaluation

15. Contract

16. Project Network Construction

17. Critical Path Method

18. Programme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

19. Crashing of Project Network

20. Resource Levelling

21. Resource Allocation Technique

22. Techniques for Project Type Products

23. Project Management Softwares

24. Environmental Impact Assessment

25. Project Audit

26. Role of Financial Institutions

27. Project Organizational Structures

Appendices 

1. Case Study

2. Area Under Standard Normal Distribution from its Mean

Answers to Selected Questions

Bibliography

Index