2024/Summer

Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi

MCL760: Project Management (3-0-0: 3 Credits)
Course dossier for self-study mode

Course orientation
This course introduces project management from the standpoint of a manager who must organize, plan, implement,
and control tasks to achieve an organization's schedule, budget, and performance objectives.
This course focuses on planning, organizing and implementing projects: project initiation, planning, organizing,
scheduling, monitoring and control, conflict management, cost effectiveness, quality, software tools for project
management, team processes and leadership.
Student will be required to make use of NPTEL sessions and Ted/TEdX talks as resource.

Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
CO1 Apply project management methodologies, processes, and tools to execute projects in organizations.
CO2 Understand the role of risk planning and mitigation.
CO3 Develop effective approaches for managing high-performance project teams, communication strategies,
and best practice closeout strategy that maximizes the value of the project experience.
CO4 Understand the impacts of schedule, cost, and scope elements in projects and analyse different
techniques for managing risks.
CO5 Understand and appreciate project scope statements, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Project
Network Diagrams, and Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM).
CO6 Apply various tools and techniques for successful management of projects.

Overview of Course contents

Fundamentals of project, necessity and imperatives for projects, strategic management and projects, Life cycle
perspective
Project Planning- activities and risk planning, budgeting-estimating costs and risks
Scheduling- network techniques (CPM/PERT), Risk analysis
Project execution- Monitoring and information systems, Project control, Project auditing, Project termination, Theory
of Constraints (TOC) perspective on projects
Organisational issues – skills required for project leader, communication, motivation and team working, behavioural
issues
Project management in practice - Case studies –Delhi metro, Delhi Airport, Covid-Vaccine etc.
Project Initiation Projects in contemporary organizations
Strategic Management and project Selection, Evaluation through financial/non-
financial criteria/MCDM
The project Manager
Negotiation and the Management of Conflict
Project in the Organizational Structure
Project Planning Project activity planning
Budgeting and Cost estimation
Scheduling: CPM/PERT
Resource allocation
Project Execution Monitoring and Information Systems
Project control, ToC
Project Auditing
Project Termination

Recommended Readings
1. Meredith Jack Shafer S M and A Ramesh, Project Management- A Managerial Approach (An Indian
adaptation edition) , Wiley. 11th edn , 2022
2. Kanda Arun, Project Management- A life cycle approach, Prentice Hall, 2009
3. Kerzner Harold, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling,
Wiley,2011
4. Larson Erik, Gray Clifford and Rohit Joshi, Project Management: The Managerial Process, McGraw Hill, 2021

Free eBook available on project management

Project Management by Watt Adrienne https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/456

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Academic Project Management Case Studies

https://www.pmi.org/learning/academic-research/project-management-curriculum-and-resources/academic-
project-management-case-studies

Online resources: NPTEL

Sn Name of the course From Link Coordinator
1 Project & Production IIT Delhi https://nptel.ac.in/courses/112/102/112102106/ (Late )Prof Arun
Management Kanda
2 Project Management IIT Kanpur https://nptel.ac.in/courses/110/104/110104073/ Prof Raghunandan
Sengupta
3 Project Management IIT https://nptel.ac.in/courses/110/107/110107081/ Prof Mukesh Barua
for Managers Roorkee

Other sources
24 Free TED Talks For Every Project Manager: Justin Bateh: https://www.projectsright.com/p/24-free-ted-talks-
every-project-manager

Project Management on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/onlinepmcourses

Online PM Courses by - Mike Clayton
https://onlinepmcourses.com/project-management-tools/free-project-management-resources/

Free eLearning course “Kickoff” by PMI (Project Management Institute)

https://www.pmi.org/kickoff/

Evaluation Scheme
Type Midterm Mini Project Assignment set /viva ** Major
(First week of June) (12 June 2024)
Weightage 20 % 10 % 30 % 40 %
• The set will be required to be submitted by 15th June 2024 (send to deshmuykh@mech.iitd.ac.in)
• Syllabus for Midterm: Project Initiation and Project Planning (see table below)

Project Initiation Projects in contemporary organizations

Strategic Management and project Selection, Evaluation through financial/non-

financial criteria/MCDM
The project Manager
Negotiation and the Management of Conflict
Project in the Organizational Structure
Project Planning Project activity planning
Budgeting and Cost estimation
Scheduling: CPM/PERT
Mini Project
You are required to do mini project related to the themes in the course with the philosophy of applying these ideas
on a real-life situation you have seen/ visualized/or read. Please note this is an action-based exercise where you put
in the knowledge gained in this course coupled with knowledge /experience gained elsewhere into practice with a life
cycle perspective on projects. The outcome is a case study of a real-life project in India.
The length of the report should NOT exceed EIGHT (8) A4-pages (including appendices, exhibits, tables etc.).
1. Select a real-life project that interests you.
2. Analyze the project in detail from different perspectives and prepare a case study in PM (it could be, say
sports complex on IITD campus, a feasibility of a start-up or event management for IPL!)
3. Give your specific analysis and recommendations.
4. Summarize and conclude.
5. Write references you have used. Use the standard style for referencing.
6. You are also sent ppt (not more than 10 slides) of the case study.

Use standard template for report preparation.

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Date of submission of report and ppt: 12 June 2024

The minip will be evaluated on the following attributes:

1. Quantum of work
2. Quality of work
3. Novelty of work
4. Proper articulation of various perspectives
5. Quality of ppt
6. Format followed /both pdf & ppt

Ted /TEDx Talks

Sn Title Speaker Link

1 Build a Tower, Build a Team Tom Wujec https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower_build_

a_team?language=en

2 A sixth sense for project Tres Roeder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqwlr8sp2Y

management

3 Project management applied Jorge Audy https://www.ted.com/talks/jorge_audy_o_gerenciamento_de

to life _projetos_aplicado_a_vida?language=en

4 The Secret to Life from a PMP Amy Hamilton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTn0HYmMAYM

5 How great leaders inspire Simon Sinek https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders

_inspire_action?language=en

6 As work gets more complex, 6 Yves Morieux https://www.ted.com/talks/yves_morieux_as_work_gets_mo

rules to simplify. re_complex_6_rules_to_simplify

7 Lead like the great conductors Itay Talgam https://www.ted.com/talks/itay_talgam_lead_like_the_great_

conductors

8 What's your 200-year plan? Raghava KK https://www.ted.com/talks/raghava_kk_what_s_your_200_y

ear_plan
9 The Future of Managing Mark Lomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvSqhE830qo
Project

10 How complex global Sunil https://www.ted.com/talks/sunil_prashara_how_complex_glo

organizations are adapting to Prashara bal_organizations_are_adapting_to_our_new
our new reality

11 Project Management: how to Ryan Zhang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnJOMI5EvK4

plan & adapt with agility

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