BİM 405

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Course Syllabus - Spring 2014

ENM-2, Thursday14:00 – 17:00PM

Instructor:Assistant Prof.Dr.IlginAcar

Department of Industrial Engineering

Office: ENM-207

Phone:

E-mail:

Office Hours: W 14:00 -15:00 or by appointment

2010-2011 Catalog Description:

Basic concepts; planning and auditing requirements; Project steps; Project feasibility studies and cost-benefit analysis; Project monitoring and reporting; Budgeting; Projects Teams and Project Managements; Dependence between projects; Project Management Tools, CPM-PERT and Gannt Charts; Applications.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

  1. Understand the modern project management and the concept of project
  2. Make the definition of project, project life cycle and project manager.
  3. Know the importance of Project management
  4. understand and practice the process of project management and its application in delivering successful projects.
  5. develop the scope of work and requirements statements
  6. create the task list and work breakdown structure
  7. develop responsibility matrices and milestone log
  8. Develop a project plan and understand project plan methods
  9. Construct a project plan
  10. Estimate project times
  11. Create a Gannt chart
  12. Develop CPM and PERT
  13. Understand scheduling resources and costs
  14. Identify the resources required for a project
  15. Develop the expenditure chart
  16. Use the cumulative budget
  17. Provide accurate cost estimates.
  18. Know how to be an effective PM
  19. Manage project teams
  20. Built high performance project teams
  21. Monitor the progress of a project.

Textbooks:

Required 

  • E.W.Larson, C.F.Gray Project Management The Managerial Process. (Ed. 5),

Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2011. 

  • Kurstedt Project Management Book (KPM). (available for free download:

Suggested

  • Shtub, Bard & Globerson:Project Management: Processes, Methodologies, and Economics, 2/E

Software: MS PROJECT

EXCEL

References:

W. L. Winston, Operations Research, Applications and Algorithms, 4th Edition, Duxbury

Evaluation: Your final grade will be based on the following:

(1) Project Deliverables (5) 10 %

(2) Midterm (2)25% (10 %-15%)

(3) Quiz (2)10%

(4) Project 15%

(5) Final Exam 40%

Project Delivearbles: Assignments will be turned for grading. Late assignments will not be considered.

Tests: The two semester tests will be administered during the lecture period on theday indicated in the schedule. You are responsible for the material up tothe day of the test. During each test you are allowed to use a calculator andone 8½" x 11" sheet of paper with anything you want written on the paper(you can use both sides of the sheet of paper). You will haveapproximately 80 minutes to complete each test.

Quiz: These are short exams and will be done at the beginning or at the end of the lecture. Dates will be announced in schedule.

Final Exam: The day and time will be announced. Final exam will be comprehensive and during the exam you areallowed to use a calculator and a sheet of two sided paper.

Project: The purpose of the semester project is to give the student an opportunity to come up with a real project. The project will be conducted in groups of 3-4. There are two ways in establishing a project.Students will define a project, plan, apply all the project management steps, schedule the project and use CPM or PERT, schedule resources and costs, monitor and close the project.There are various elements of the project that must be submitted throughoutthe semester. Early in the semester you must submit an initial and finalproject proposal. The proposals should include a brief description of theproblem, a set of objectives, and an outline of the steps to be followed. Theproject should culminate in a written report and a 5 to 10 minutepresentation. The format for the written report should follow a formatsimilar in structure to the sample report that I will provide. Due dates forall project elements are given in the attached schedule. Remember that thisis a semester project, so start early!

Homework: Homework will not be turned in but you are responsible in exams.

SCHEDULE

Please note that the topic schedule is only a guide, sometimes we will spend more time on onetopic and less on another. The tests and final exam times will occur on the dates listed, however,content of these exams may be altered based on the material covered prior to exam time.

Date Topics Chapter

February27Introduction

March 6Project Management and Its Steps1 LG & 1,2 KP

Determine project teams and Submit Project Proposal

13Project Management Process,4 LG

SupplementScooping Agreement,4 KP

20Project Management Process4 LG

SupplementRequirement Statements and Task List5,6 KP

Project deliverables—Scooping agreement

27WBS and Milestones

Supplement7,10 KP

Project deliverables— Requirement Statements and Task List

QUIZ (1)

April 3TEST 1

10Developing a plan and scheduling a project (CPM)6 LG

Supplement8,9 KP

Project deliverables—WBS and Milestones

17Managing Risks 7 LG

Project deliverables—Project plan and Schedule

24Scheduling resources and Cots8 LG

Supplement12,13,14,15 KP

Project deliverables—CPM & PERT

QUIZ 2

May 1Leadership and Project Teams10,11 LG

8Monitoring a Project13 LG

15TEST 2

22Project Closure14 LG

29Project Presentations

Week of June 5Final Exam (Comprehensive)

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