P405 – Project Management: Course Outline

Batch: BBA 21st

Timing: Wednesday, 8:30 AM to 9:45 AM and Saturday, 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM.

Instructor: Khan Muhammad Saqiful Alam, Lecturer, Department of Management, School of Business and Economics, North South University

Email: saqiful@gmail.com, khan.alam@northsouth.edu

Phone: +8801798615115

Campus Office Hours: Saturday, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Course Description:

Project management has been proven to be the most effective method of delivering products within cost, schedule, and resource constraints. This intensive and hands-on series of courses gives you the skills to ensure your projects are completed on time and on budget while giving the user the product they expect. You will gain a strong working knowledge of the basics of project management and be able to immediately use that knowledge to effectively manage work projects. At the end of the series you will be able to identify and manage the product scope, build a work breakdown structure, create a project plan, create the project budget, define and allocate resources, manage the project development, identify and manage risks, and understand the project procurement process.

Structure of Delivery:

Presentations and lectures, followed by home reading assignments and case studies as and when required. A good deal of stress will be given to the class lectures, as the course will be covered from materials from multiple sources, in order to make the course experience state of the art.

Course Topics:

Assessment Structure:

Assessment Type Weightage Mid Term 25% Final 30% Assignments & Cases 20% Project and Presentation 25%

Necessary Materials:

The soft copy of all the course books and other supporting material will be provided by the instruction as per need basis. At the same time, students are highly encouraged to use any resources available in the library, online and in their disposal. An open mind and eagerness to learn is key to success in this course. The contents of the examination and the project are not at all based on any single resource.

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Topics Classes Definition of a Project (4V, Polar Diagram, Stakeholder Analysis) 2 Project Planning (WBS, RACI, Scheduling, Scramming and PERT Simulation)

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Guest Appearance on Project Management in Programming 1 Practical Class on Microsoft Project 1 Process Design and Mapping 1 Practice Case 1 Basics SCM Issues related to PM 1 Capacity 1 Layout 1 Waiting line scheduling 2 Project Budgeting (Static Models and Stochastic Models) 3 Project and Process Improvement (FMEA, TPM, QFD, Fishbone, SPC and Six Sigma, Benchmarking and BPR)

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Project Risk Analysis 2 Project Leadership 1 MCDA/Decision Theory 2 Term Project Presentations 2 Total 32