DR. A.P.J.

ABDUL KALAM TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY,

UTTAR PRADESH, LUCKNOW

Evaluation Scheme & Syllabus

For
B.Tech. Minor Degree
In

Project Management
Eligible Branches: All Branches

As per NEP 2020

[Effective from the Session: 2023-24]

Curriculum & Evaluation Scheme MINOR DEGREE in Project Management

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 Minor Degree in Project Management

(Eligible Branches: All Branches)

EVALUATION SCHEME

Practical End
Examination

Examination
Theory End
Sessional

Semester

Semester
Practical
Theory Sessional
Semester

Credits
Periods
Sl. No.

Total
Subject (TS)
Subject
Codes

L T P CT TA CT+TA PS TE PE
Introduction
1 IV MNPM401 to Project 3 1 0 30 20 50 100 150 4
Management

Project
Planning and
2 V MNPM501 3 1 0 30 20 50 100 150 4
Control

Project
3 VI MNPM601 Financing 3 1 0 30 20 50 100 150 4

Project
Implementatio
4 VII MNPM701 n & Risk 3 1 0 30 20 50 100 150 4
Management

Mini Project/
MNPM801 1 3 0 50 100 150 4
OR
5 VIII /
*MOOCs
MNPM802 150 4
Course

Total 750 20

*Option of MOOC courses shall be notified by the University

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 Syllabus
MNPM401 INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Course Credit: 4 Contact Hour: 40

Course Objective:

1. To help students understand Project Management: Concepts, Life Cycle, and Manager
Roles.
2. To provide assistance in Idea Generation, Feasibility, Team Dynamics; apply Execution
Monitoring.
3. To help students to handle project in team by using leadership style.
4. To provide insights into Appraisal Techniques, Risk Management; help understand
Decision Tree Analysis.
5. To assist students in learning Project Scheduling, provide insight into Agile Methodologies,
and Tools.
Unit 1: Introduction to Project Management (6 Sessions)
Concept of Project: Meaning, Characteristics, Classification of Projects, Project Life Cycle and
Phases. Project Selection criteria, Project Management and Line Management. Project Manager:
Roles and Responsibilities, Project Management as a Profession.
Unit-II: Project Execution and Monitoring (8 Sessions)
Generating and Screening Ideas – Steps, Monitoring the Environment, Scouting for Project Ideas,
Preliminarily Screening, Project Rating Index. Feasibility Studies – Technical, Financial,
Economic, Social, Legal and Managerial. Team formation and roles, Communication and
leadership in project management, Resource allocation and management
Unit 3: Financial Estimates and Projections (10 Sessions)
Project cost estimation & working capital requirements, Sources of funds (Equity, debentures, term
loans & their Cost of Capital, Projected Cash Flow Statement & fund flow statement, Projected
Income statement and Balance sheet ,Capital budgeting decisions – Payback Period, Accounting
Rate of Return, NPV, Internal Rate of Return and BCR Method. (We can cover this topic in project
financing, instead we can include one unit of leadership and teamwork)
Unit 4: Project Appraisal and Risk Management techniques (8 Sessions)
Project Appraisal Techniques: Objectives, Types and Methods, Environmental appraisal, Market
appraisal (including market survey for forecasting future demand and sales)
Unit 5: Agile techniquesin Project Management ( 8 Sessions)

Introduction to Agile and its principles, Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile methodologies, Agile
project management tools, Agile vs. Traditional project management

CASE STUDY DISCUSSION

Suggested readings:

1. Project Management - Choudhary - TataMcGraw Hill Pub.

2. Project Management: The Managerial Process (Special Indian Edit.) -Clifford F Gray, Oregon
1. State University.
2. Project Management: The Managerial Process" by Clifford F. Gray and Erik W. Larson (Adaptation
by Ganesh Vaidyanathan), McGraw Hill Education

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3. "Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme" by Robert K. Wysocki (Adaptation by
R. Srinivasan), John Wiley & Sons
4. "Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling" by J. S.
Chitode,: Technical Publications Pune
5. "Project Management: Planning and Control Techniques" by R. L. Srivastava, New Age
International Publishers

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MNPM501 PROJECT PLANNING AND CONTROL

Course Credit: 4 Contact Hour: 40

Course Objectives:

1. To help students to have in-depth knowledge and information related to project planning
and control
2. To help students to acquire the required skills to devise a project plan/strategy to
determine the path/trajectory of the project
3. To help students to develop analytical and strategic skills to align project outcome and
objectives for organisational growth
4. To help students to develop ability to handle projects of any kind in any organisation or
industry

Unit 1- Introduction: Overview of Project Management; Importance in Engineering; Project

Lifecycle; Project Stakeholders; Project Phases; Project Organization; Roles and Responsibilities in
Project Management (8 Hrs.)

Unit 2- Project Planning: Objectives and Scope Definition; Project Scheduling Levels; Work
Breakdown Structure (WBS); Time Estimation and Scheduling; Resource Scheduling; Resource
Allocation and Budgeting; Programming Evaluation Review Techniques (PERT); Critical Path
Method; Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM).

Unit 3- Project Control and Monitoring: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS); Gantt Charts; Network
Analysis, Representation & Application; Time Management; Uncertainty in Project Schedules;
Time-Cost Trade-off (Crashing); Performance Measurement and Control Techniques; Earned Value
Management; Introduction to Risk Management

Unit 4- Advanced Project Management Tools: Advanced Features of Project Management

Software; Integration of Cost, Time, and Quality Management; Simulation and Optimization in
Project Planning; Case Studies on Software Applications in Engineering Projects (8 Hrs.)

Unit 5 - Application of Project Management in Engineering: Real-world Engineering Project Case

Studies; Group Project: Planning and Controlling a Simulated (8 Hrs.)

Text Book:
1. Scott Berkun, "The Art of Project Management", Shroff
2. Joseph Heagney, "Fundamentals of Project Management", AMACOM
3. Robert K. Wysocki, "Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme", Wiley
Reference Books:
1. "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)", Project Management
Institute
2. Harold Kerzner, "Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and
Controlling", Wiley

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MNPM601 PROJECT FINANCING

Course Credit: 4 Contact Hour: 40

Course Objectives

1. Students will be able to understand the basics of project financing& key elements that
support a project financing of project financing.
2. Students will be ableto study the necessary elements critical to project financing.
3. At the end of the course, students should be able to identify projects that meet the essential
criteria for a project financing and know how to create the structure for a basic project
financing.
4. Students will be able to understand how to create a financing structure that will provide the
best chance of successful project financing.

UNIT 1:Introduction to Project Finance: The Project Finance Markets - Role of Advisors in
Project Finance - Project Development and Management - Valuing the Project and Project Cash
Flow Analysis – Project Feasibility Studies.(8 Hrs.)
UNIT 2: Financing of Projects: Sources of funds, Capital structure, internal accruals, Banks,
insurance companies/pension funds, public markets, equity funds, leasing, sponsors, financial
equity, strategic equity, miscellaneous sources .Project finance from international market, financial
closure.(8 Hrs.)
UNIT 3:ASSESSING RISKS IN PROJECT FINANCE: Project Finance and Commercial Risks,
Credit risk rating, Project Finance and Macroeconomic Risks - Regulatory and Political Risks -
Risk Mitigation Methodologies for Projects (8 Hrs.)
UNIT 4:Legal Aspects in Project Finance - Project Finance Loan Documentation, Sub-Contracts
and Other Related Agreements, Credit Agreements: pricing, terms, conditions, covenants,
representations and warranties, events of default. Taxation and Incentives (8 Hrs.)
UNIT 5: Venture Capital and Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment, Appraisal process
and management, private equity, Introduction to PPP model, Management of Private Equity and
Venture Capital Funds. Case study/Project modelling to identify, test and measure risks in project
financing.(8 Hrs.)
References:

• Project Management: The Managerial Process: Gray, C.F., Larson, E.W. and Desai, G.V.;
MGH,2009
• Principles of Project Finance, E.R. Yescombe, Publisher: Academic Press, London, England ,2014
• Venture Capital, Private Equity and the Financing of Entrepreneurship, Lerner, Leamon, Hardymon,
Wiley 2012
• Project Management, Prasanna Chandra, TMH, 2007.
• Projects-Planning Analysis, Selection, Financing, Implementation and Review, Prasanna Chandra,
6th edition, 2006.
• Project Management for Engineering, Business and Technology: Nicholas, J.M., and Steyn, H.;
PHI,2011

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MNPM701 PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION & RISK MANAGEMENT

Course Credit: 4 Contact Hour: 40

Course Objectives:

1. To help students to have in-depth understanding and information about risk assessments and
role of management in a project.
2. To help students to have perspective and foresight to predict risks and devise corrective
action plans to minimise the impact on the project deliverables
3. To help students to acquire knowledge and skill to apply various risk identification
techniques and tools to identify risks early enough.
4. To help students to apply the steps in the project implementation process and develop a
complete project implementation plan & project control system
5. To help students to develop a plan this will incorporate proven success factors and will
avoid the common mistakes.

Unit1:Preparing of Project Implementation Plans, Project Documents Checklist, The Log

Frame,Log Frame: Rows at a Glance ,Life of Project Work Plan., Annual Work Plan , AWP
Process , AWP Document Layout (8 Hrs)

Unit:2BudgetPlanningandMonitoring, Common budget plans like : Staffing plan, Procurement

Plan, Project Activities, Other, Direct costs/Shared Project Cost (SPC) ,Projecting project cash
needs, Budget Monitoring : Slow burn rate, Fast burn rate, How to monitor a budget (8Hrs)

Unit 3: Monitoring. & Evaluation: Implementation Cycle , Accurate Risk Assessment., Monitoring
Documentation like Monitoring Plan, Monitoring Tool/Instrument , how to Monitoring Results
Report, Corrective Action, Closure Letter, CI Principles & Project monitoring plan matrixes,
Process of Project Evaluation. (8Hrs)
Unit 4: Understanding Project Risk Management
Meaning of Project risk management, the process of determining, how to carry out risk
management activities on a project, Strategy & Planning, Risk identification. (8Hrs)
Unit 5: Risk Analysis
Qualitative risk analysis, Quantitative risk analysis, Planning risk responses, and Implementing risk
responses Strategy and Response Planning.Monitoring risk, Change Management and Case Study
(8Hrs)

Reference Books:

1. Lewis, James. The Project Manager’s Desk Reference, Third edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
2. Berkun, Scott (2005), The Art of Project Management, O’Reilly Media: Cambridge, MA. Berkun, Scott
(2008),
3.Mastering Project Management, O’Reilly Media: Cambridge, MA. Campbell, Clark A. (2006),
4.The One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With a Single Sheet of Paper,
Wiley: New York
5. Project Management by SanjivMarwah (January 2011)
6. Project Management BY, Khanna R. B ,PHI

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MNPM801 MINI PROJECT

Course Credit: 4 Contact Hour: 40

GUIDELINES FOR MINI PROJECT (VIII SEMESTER)

.
1. In the Eighth semester, It is applicable to those who have opted MINI PROJECT in the
minor degree course in their final semester.This mini project is to be carried out under the
supervision of a core faculty member of the department.
2. The objective is to provide a practical learning opportunity and enhance skill of the student
with the knowledge of the subject, which the student acquired during the study of the minor
degree course.
3. The student will choose an undergoing or completed project. The project must be a real or
live, not a dummy project. The project can be a technical (tangible or intangible) /
construction / renovation / repairing or any other similar project undertaken by an individual
or institution.
4. The student will prepare a Project Report under the supervision of the assigned faculty
member and submit in the department. The Report should cover all important aspects of a
project in sequential order.
5. The Project Report must have an Undertaking by the student stating originality of the report
and a Certificate of the Supervisor certifying authenticity of the report.
6. The student will submit two copies of the report to the Head of Department. The number of
pages in the report will be minimum 75 or more. The report should be typed in A-4 size
paper.
7. The Project Report will carry 150 marks.
8. The evaluation of the project report will consist of the following:
(a) Evaluation of Project Report by the Supervisor.
(b) Presentation and Viva Voce by the internal and external examiners.

9. The evaluation of Project Report by the Supervisor of the student will comprise of 50
marks.
10. The Presentation and Viva Voce by the internal and external examiners evaluation would
comprise of 100 marks. The average of the marks awarded by the internal and external
examiners will be taken into account for the results. In case the difference in the marks
given by the examiners is 30 or more, the project report will be referred to a third examiner.
In such a case the average of two closer awards (given by three examiners) will be taken
into account for the results.

The criteria of evaluation for Project Report by the Supervisor (Marks : 50)

1. Relevance of the Topic and its Objectives (Marks : 10)

2. Understanding of the Project and Contents of the Report (Marks : 20)
3. Analysis & Presentation of the Report and Student Learning (Marks : 20)

The criteria of evaluation for Project Report by the internal and external examiners
(Marks : 100)

1. Relevance of the Topic and its Objectives (Marks : 20)

2. Understanding of the Project and Contents of the Report (Marks : 20)
3. Interpretation and Analysis of the Report (Marks : 20)
4. Presentation & Communication Skill (Marks : 20)
5. Query Handling (Marks : 20)
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