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Project Planning & Control

Prof. Koshy Varghese · IIT Madras

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About

This course will cover the basic concepts in Project Planning and Control with a focus on construction projects. The course is relevant to Civil Engineering senior level undergraduate as well as post-graduate students in the area of construction management. Practising engineers who are part of the planning team on construction projects will also benefit from the concepts covered in the course.

Intended audience: UG/PG/Industry Participants

Prerequisites: Basic Mathematics with Probability and Statistics INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE All leading construction companies

Lectures

Week 1: Introduction, Course Context, Construction Project Management

  1. Lesson 1. What is Project Management?, Is Project Management an Art/ Science? YouTube
  2. Lesson 2. Objectives of a Project, Scientific Way of Managing of Objectives YouTube
  3. Lesson 3. Course Scope & Plan, Questions and Discussions YouTube
  4. Lesson 4. Construction Industry and National Growth YouTube
  5. Lesson 5. Project Stakeholders, Project Phases, Project Organization YouTube
  6. Lesson 6. Project Scheduling Levels (& Scheduling Engineer Responsibilities) YouTube

Week 2: Time Management, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Gantt Charts

  1. Lesson 1. Time Management - Overview YouTube
  2. Lesson 2. Basics of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) YouTube
  3. Lesson 3. Tools for Time Management YouTube
  4. Lesson 4. Gantt / Bar Chart - History, Representation, Progress Monitoring, Uses, Steps to draw a Bar Chart YouTube
  5. Lesson 5. Develop a Bar Chart (Exercise) YouTube
  6. Lesson 6. Bar Charts for Resource Usage, Pros and Cons YouTube

Week 3: Duration Estimation, Network Representation & Analysis -1

  1. Lesson 1. Duration Estimation - Types, Inputs, Methods, Parametric Estimation YouTube
  2. Lesson 2. Factors influencing Productivity, Example for Ideal Productivity, Factored Productivity and Working Time Factor YouTube
  3. Lesson 3. Piling Activity Example, Applicability of different methods to Estimate Activity Duration YouTube
  4. Lesson 4. Summary of Key Topics, Types of Networks YouTube
  5. Lesson 5. Networks - Introduction, Techniques YouTube
  6. Lesson 6. Representing Results in a Bar Chart, AON Example -2 YouTube

Week 4: Network Representation & Analysis -2; Two-Span Bridge: Scheduling, Network Analysis and Application

  1. Lesson 1. Introduction to Floats, Types of Floats and Example- 1 Discussion YouTube
  2. Lesson 2. Example 4, Usage of Floats for Project Decisions YouTube
  3. Lesson 3. Two-Span Bridge: Activity Identification and Duration Estimation (Cont.,) YouTube
  4. Lesson 4. Two-Span Bridge: Activity Identification and Duration Estimation YouTube
  5. Lesson 5. Two-Span Bridge: Activity- Duration- Predecessors YouTube
  6. Lesson 6. Review Network Analysis Concepts, Apply Network Analysis to Two-Span Bridge (Cont.,) YouTube
  7. Lesson 7. Two-Span Bridge: Network Analysis YouTube
  8. Lesson 8. Two-Span Bridge: Resource Constraints in Network Logic YouTube

Week 5: Time-Cost Trade-off (Crashing)

  1. Lesson 1. Fast-Tracking vs Crashing, Relationship between Activity Direct Cost & Activity Duration - Assumptions YouTube
  2. Lesson 2. Time-Cost trade-off: ABCD Example Project, Steps for Crashing YouTube
  3. Lesson 3. Time-Cost trade-off: Class Exercise- 2 YouTube
  4. Lesson 4. Time-Cost trade-off: Problem- 3, Tabulation Approach YouTube
  5. Lesson 5. Incorporating Factors such as Bonus and Penalty; Problem- 4 YouTube

Week 6: Resource Scheduling

  1. Lesson 1. What is Resource?, Influence of Resources on Schedule, Two-Span Bridge Example, Resource Decisions; ABCD Example Project; Resource Over-Allocation; Example-2 YouTube
  2. Lesson 2. Projects & Resources, Example of Two Resources, Exercise, Two-Span Bridge Example YouTube
  3. Lesson 3. Review Problem -1; Problem -2 (Cash Resource); Resolving Over-Allocation YouTube
  4. Lesson 4. Problem 1- Two Resources; Resolving Resource Allocation Problems YouTube
  5. Lesson 5. Resource Profile Requirements YouTube
  6. Lesson 6. Resource Leveling - Example Network YouTube
  7. Lesson 7. Minimum Moment Concept YouTube
  8. Lesson 8. Applying Improvement Factor - Illustration YouTube

Week 7. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM), Project Monitoring & Control

  1. Lesson 1. Introduction to Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) YouTube
  2. Lesson 2. PDM network representation and its issues, Network Calculation YouTube
  3. Lesson 3. PDM – Problem #1 YouTube
  4. Lesson 4. Issues in PDM, Negative Lags, Problem #2 Solution YouTube
  5. Lesson 5. PDM – Analysis with non-continuous duration, Floats YouTube
  6. Lesson 6. Defining Relationship (Based on Construction Method) - Simple Shed YouTube
  7. Lesson 7. Project Monitoring & Control – Typical Project Time Monitoring Process, Levels and Frequency of updates YouTube
  8. Lesson 8. Project Control Process, Daily Progress Report, Macro Level Update- Data Need, Standard Progress Reports YouTube
  9. Lesson 9. Application: Two Span Bridge – ES Schedule YouTube

Week 8. Project Monitoring & Control (Earned Value Concepts), Uncertainty in Project Schedules (PERT), Course Summary

  1. Lesson 1. Review of Key Issues in Project Monitoring, Earned Value Concept Through Examples YouTube
  2. Lesson 2. Basic Earned Value Definitions & Terminology, Summary YouTube
  3. Lesson 3. Uncertainty in Project Schedules YouTube
  4. Lesson 4. PERT Background & Assumptions, Stepwise Procedure YouTube
  5. Lesson 5. PERT Example Problem, Summary YouTube
  6. Lesson 6. Course Conclusion YouTube
  7. Lesson 7. Emerging Trends/Tools in Project Planning YouTube
  8. Lesson 8. Industry Perspective –Prof. N. Raghavan YouTube
  9. Lesson 9. Final Exam Pattern, Acknowledgements YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Civil Engineering
Teacher
Prof. Koshy Varghese
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
NPTEL
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CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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