Lecture 1 - What is Project Management? Is Project Management an Art/Science ?
Lecture 2 - Objectives of a Project, Scientific Way of Managing of Objectives
Lecture 3 - Course Scope and Plan, Questions and Discussions
Lecture 4 - Construction Industry and National Growth
Lecture 5 - Project Stakeholders, Project Phases, Project Organization
Lecture 6 - Project Scheduling Levels (Scheduling Engineer Responsibilities)
Lecture 7 - Time Management - Overview
Lecture 8 - Basics of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Lecture 9 - Tools for Time Management
Lecture 10 - Gantt / Bar Chart - History, Representation, Progress Monitoring, Uses, Steps to draw a Bar Chart
Lecture 11 - Develop a Bar Chart (Exercise)
Lecture 12 - Bar Charts for Resource Usage, Pros and Cons
Lecture 13 - Duration Estimation - Types, Inputs, Methods, Parametric Estimation
Lecture 14 - Factors influencing Productivity, Example for Ideal Productivity, Factored Productivity and Working Time Factor
Lecture 15 - Piling Activity Example, Applicability of different methods to Estimate Activity Duration
Lecture 16 - Summary of Key Topics, Types of Networks
Lecture 17 - Networks - Introduction, Techniques
Lecture 18 - Representing Results in a Bar Chart, AON Example-2
Lecture 19 - Introduction to Floats, Types of Floats and Example-1 Discussion
Lecture 20 - Example 4, Usage of Floats for Project Decisions
Lecture 21 - Two-Span Bridge : Activity Identification and Duration Estimation (Continued...)
Lecture 22 - Two-Span Bridge : Activity Identification and Duration Estimation
Lecture 23 - Two-Span Bridge : Activity- Duration- Predecessors
Lecture 24 - Review Network Analysis Concepts, Apply Network Analysis to Two-Span Bridge (Continued...)
Lecture 25 - Two-Span Bridge : Network Analysis
Lecture 26 - Two-Span Bridge : Resource Constraints in Network Logic
Lecture 27 - Fast-Tracking vs Crashing, Relationship between Activity Direct Cost and Activity Duration - Assumptions
Lecture 28 - Time-Cost trade-off : ABCD Example Project, Steps for Crashing
Lecture 29 - Time-Cost trade-off : Class Exercise-2
Lecture 30 - Time-Cost trade-off : Problem-3, Tabulation Approach
Lecture 31 - Incorporating Factors such as Bonus and Penalty; Problem-4
Lecture 32 - What is Resource?, Influence of Resources on Schedule, Two-Span Bridge Example, Resource Decisions; ABCD Example Project; Resource Over-Allocation; Example-2
Lecture 33 - Projects and Resources, Example of Two Resources, Exercise, Two-Span Bridge Example
Lecture 34 - Review Problem-1; Problem-2 (Cash Resource); Resolving Over-Allocation
Lecture 35 - Problem 1 - Two Resources; Resolving Resource Allocation Problems
Lecture 36 - Resource Profile Requirements
Lecture 37 - Resource Leveling - Example Network
Lecture 38 - Minimum Moment Concept
Lecture 39 - Applying Improvement Factor - Illustration
Lecture 40 - Introduction to Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
Lecture 41 - PDM network representation and its issues, Network Calculation
Lecture 42 - PDM Problem #1
Lecture 43 - Issues in PDM, Negative Lags, Problem #2 Solution
Lecture 44 - PDM Analysis with non-continuous duration, Floats
Lecture 45 - Defining Relationship (Based on Construction Method) - Simple Shed
Lecture 46 - Project Monitoring & Control Typical Project Time Monitoring Process, Levels and Frequency of updates
Lecture 47 - Project Control Process, Daily Progress Report, Macro Level Update- Data Need, Standard Progress Reports
Lecture 48 - Application: Two Span Bridge ES Schedule
Lecture 49 - Review of Key Issues in Project Monitoring, Earned Value Concept Through Examples
Lecture 50 - Basic Earned Value Definitions and Terminology, Summary
Lecture 51 - Uncertainty in Project Schedules
Lecture 52 - PERT Background & Assumptions, Stepwise Procedure
Lecture 53 - PERT Example Problem, Summary
Lecture 54 - Course Conclusion
Lecture 55 - Emerging Trends / Tools in Project Planning
Lecture 56 - Industry Perspective Prof. N. Raghavan
Lecture 57 - Final Exam Pattern, Acknowledgements