Short Course for Professionals in Project Management At IIT Kharagpur

Short Course for Professionals in Project Management At IIT Kharagpur

Short Course for Professionals in Project Management:

All details appear on the Course website on the IIT Kharagpur Institute webpage.

This course will be particularly useful for practicing professionals who manage, plan, execute or sponsor construction, R&D, IT, facilities upgradation or Six Sigma projects. Some prior experience in having managed or acted as a resource in projects would be most helpful. If you are planning to learn about project management with the desire to write the PMP/PMI test, you will learn all the basics in this course.

The faculty are top rated and internationally recognized for their expertise in project management.

Course Objective:

This 4-Day focused course in Project Management will cover methods beyond topics covered in Operations Management for MBAs and M Techs—in the planning and implementation of projects. This is a major knowledge
upgrade for project managers and practitioners. Specifically, learning will include:

• Project Life Cycle, CPM and PERT
• How to allocate resources to different activities while planning a project; “crashing” (expedite) certain project activities to speed up a project; you will experience the dynamic effects of crashing by simulating a real life project using CPSIM
• How to identify, quantify and mitigate risks; Monte Carlo in PERT
• Project performance evaluation by EVM; Critical Chain PM
• Developing working competence in the use of MS Project®

Course Deliverables:

At the end of the course the attendee would be skilled in expediting projects by prudently crashing certain activities,
conducting Risk analysis, Resource allocation, use MS Project® and Critical Chains; Six Sigma case application.

Pedagogy:

Group work and simulation exercises; hands-on work with MS Project® to build realistic project plans and optimize them; classroom discussions and case analyses will be used to reinforce concepts taught.

Text (will be provided to each attendee):

Project Management: A Managerial Approach, Jack Meredith and Samuel Mantel Jr, 6th ed., Wiley.

Course Fee:

Rupees 15,000.00 per participant payable by draft to CEP-STC, IIT Kharagpur; Fee covers four days’ room and board on campus, all course materials, and a textbook.

Project Management Course Outline

Course Coordinator: Professor Tapan P Bagchi
Course Co-Coordinator: Professor J Maiti
Venue: IEM, IIT Kharagpur
Date: November 24-27. 2010

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