NPTEL : NOC:Project Planning and Control (Civil Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Koshy Varghese


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