Project Management

Project: Meaning, Characteristics, classification &Life cycle of a project.

Project Formulation: Introduction, sequential stages of Project formulation.

Project Appraisal- Introduction, market, Technical and Financial Feasibility.

Social Cost Benefit Analysis: Meaning, Rational of SCBA, Approaches (UNIDO & L-M approach), Shadow pricing-concept

Capital Budgeting- Introduction, Traditional and Discounted cash flow Techniques: Present Value and IRR.
Project organization: Functional & Matrix organization, Task force

Project planning: objectives, steps, tools-work break down Structure (WBS).

Project scheduling: Introduction, Scheduling Techniques: Bar Chart, Network based scheduling-PERT &CPM.

Project Evaluation: meaning, objective, techniques.

Project Report: objectives, types of project reports

Project Termination: Reasons, methods