Institute of Management Studies

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT – I & II

COMPONENTS

Objective(s):

-         To introduce students to the field of project management and highlight growing importance of the field.

-         To introduce PMI and PMBOK, and understand project management from their perspectives.

-         To understand the basic concepts associated to the field.

-         To understand the standard for project management for a project

-         To understand and apply core functions of project management i.e. project scope, time, cost, and quality management.

-         To understand and apply facilitating functions of project management i.e. project human resource, communications, risk, and procurement management.

-         To understand project integration management and how it integrates the core and facilitating functions of project management.

Primary Text:

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Fourth Edition)

By Project Management Institute

Project Management Institute, Inc. 2008.

Secondary Text:

Head First PMP (Second Edition) by Jennifer Greene, PMP and Andrew Stellman, PMP.

O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2009.

PMP® Exam Prep (Sixth Edition) by Rita Mulcahy, PMP. RMC Publication, Inc. 2009.

Project Management Case book by David I. Cleland Karen M. Bursic, Richard Puerzer, and A. Yaroslav Vlasak. Project Management Institute, Inc. 1998.

Case Studies in Project, Program, and Organizational Project Management

Dragan Z. Milosevic, Peerasit Patanakul & Sabin Srivannaboon. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010.

Additional Resources:

A number of online resources (videos, podcasts, webcasts, articles, and case studies etc) are to be utilized in this course. These resources are mentioned in the corresponding lectures along with their web addresses.

Corresponding Weeks & Lectures: