Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management (PGDPM)
SEMESTER ONE
1. Principles and Practice of Management
1. Business - the Purpose of Management
2. Designing Organization for Business
3. Need for Managing Organization and Business
4. Management of Standard Functions
5. Managing Resources
6. Planning, Decision Making
7. Organizing, Staffing
8. Leading: Directing, Communicating, Motivating
9. Controlling, Coordinating (Synchronizing)
10. Evolution of Management Thought
11. Pursuing Managerial Career
2. Operations Strategy and management
1. Introduction of operations strategy
2. Competitive dimension
3. Operations performance
4. Capacity strategy
5. Purchasing and supply strategy
6. Process technology strategy
7. Improvement strategy
8. Product development strategy
9. Process of operations strategy –formulation,
implementation, monitoring & control
3. Introduction to Project Management
1. Introduction to Project Management: Genesis,
history and evolution
2. Project Phases and Organisation
3. Understanding and Meeting Client Expectations
4. Project Planning
5. Working with People on Projects
6. Networks for Project Management
7. Resource Levelling and Project Crashing
8. Project Implementation and Monitoring
9. Controlling Projects
10. Introduction to Projects Contracts Management
11. Focussed areas from PMBOK 6 & 7
12. Introduction of other useful frameworks
4. Project Scope, Time, Cost & Total Quality Management
1. Introduction – triple constraints
2. Work breakdown structure
3. Project time management
4. CPM-PERT methods
5. Crashing the project time duration
6. Introduction project cost management
7. Operating cycle, budget and control
8. Earned value measurement
9. Variance and earned value
10. Cost overrun dilemma
11. Quality control, quality assurance, TQM and its
impact on time and cost
12. Quality management tools
SEMESTER TWO
1. MIS, Project Analytics & Dashboard
1. Introduction & Importance of project analytics
2. Data driven decision making
3. Statistical tools
4. Analytic hierarchy process
5. Lean Six Sigma
6. Statistical application in project management
2. Project Risk Management
1. Introduction & Components of Risk Management
2. Definition and tolerance for risk
3. Plan Risk management
4. Risk identification & analysis
5. Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
6. Plan risk response
7. Monitor and control risks
8. Holistic Approach for Risk Management
9. Use of lessons learned in risk management
3. Agile project management using scrum
1. Introduction to ‘Agile’ and Its evolution
2. Introduction of scrum
3. Planning a project using scrum
4. Release and sprint planning
5. Scrum roles
6. Scrum flow
7. Scrum artifacts
8. The team
9. Getting maximum out of sprints
10. Scrum for software development
11. Scrum for services
4. Project Procurement, Supply Chain & Contracts
Management
1. Introduction- procurement management
2. Project procurement processes and vendor selection
strategies
3. Project procurement management plan
4. Types of contracts
5. Contract principles, terms & condition
6. International contracts
7. Legal aspects of project procurement
8. Introduction supply chain management in projects
9. Closing out project procurement
10. Strategic procurement practice
