Project Planning and Control. Instructor: Prof. Koshy Varghese, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras. 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. Practicing engineers who are part of the planning team on construction projects will also benefit from the concepts covered in the course.
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| Introduction, Course Context, Construction Project Management |
| Lecture 01 - What is Project Management? |
| Lecture 02 - Objectives of a Project, Scientific Way of Managing of Objectives |
| Lecture 03 - Course Scope and Plan, Questions and Discussions |
| Lecture 04 - Construction Industry and National Growth |
| Lecture 05 - Project Stakeholders, Project Phases, Project Organization |
| Lecture 06 - Project Scheduling Levels (and Scheduling Engineer Responsibilities) |
| Time Management, Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt Charts |
| Lecture 07 - Time Management: Overview |
| Lecture 08 - Basics of Work Breakdown Structure |
| Lecture 09 - Tools for Time Management |
| Lecture 10 - Gantt/Bar Chart: History, Representation, Process Monitoring, etc. |
| Lecture 11 - Develop a Bar Chart (Exercise) |
| Lecture 12 - Bar Charts for Resource Usage - Pros and Cons |
| Duration Estimation, Network Representation and Analysis |
| 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 |
| Network Representation and Analysis; Two-Span Bridge |
| Lecture 19 - Introduction to Floats, Types of Floats and Example |
| Lecture 20 - Usage of Floats for Project Decisions |
| Lecture 21 - Two-Span Bridge: Activity Identification and Duration Estimation |
| Lecture 22 - Two-Span Bridge: Activity Identification and Duration Estimation (cont.) |
| Lecture 23 - Two-Span Bridge: Activity-Duration Predecessors |
| Lecture 24 - Review of Network Analysis Concepts, Apply Network Analysis to Two-Span Bridge |
| Lecture 25 - Two-Span Bridge: Network Analysis |
| Lecture 26 - Two-Span Bridge: Resource Constraints in Network Logic |
| Time-Cost Trade-Off (Crashing) |
| Lecture 27 - Fast-Tracking vs Crashing, Relationship between Activity Direct Cost and Activity Duration |
| Lecture 28 - Time-Cost Trade-Off: ABCD Example Project, Steps for Crashing |
| Lecture 29 - Time-Cost Trade-Off: Class Exercise |
| Lecture 30 - Time-Cost Trade-Off: Problem, Tabulation Approach |
| Lecture 31 - Incorporating Factors such as Bonus and Penalty |
| Resource Scheduling |
| Lecture 32 - What is Resource? |
| Lecture 33 - Projects and Resources, Example of Two Resources, Two-Span Bridge Example |
| Lecture 34 - Review Problems; Resolving Overallocation |
| Lecture 35 - Problem - 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 |
| Precedence Diagramming Method, Project Monitoring and Control |
| Lecture 40 - Introduction to Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) |
| Lecture 41 - PDM Network Representation and its Issues, Network Calculation |
| Lecture 42 - PDM - Problem |
| Lecture 43 - Issues in PDM, Negative Lags |
| Lecture 44 - PDM - Analysis with Non-continuous Duration, Floats |
| Lecture 45 - Defining Relationship (based on Construction Method) - Simple Shed |
| Lecture 46 - Project Monitoring and Control - Typical Project Time Monitoring Process |
| Lecture 47 - Project Control Process, Daily Progress Report, Macro Level Update |
| Lecture 48 - Application: Two Span Bridge - ES Schedule |
| Project Monitoring and Control (Earned Value Concept), Uncertainty in Project Schedules |
| Lecture 49 - Review of Key Issues in Project Monitoring, Earned Value Concept through Example |
| Lecture 50 - Basic Earned Value Definitions and Terminology |
| Lecture 51 - Uncertainty in Project Schedules |
| Lecture 52 - PERT Background and Assumptions, Stepwise Procedure |
| Lecture 53 - PERT Example Problem |
| Lecture 54 - Course Conclusion |
| Lecture 55 - Emerging Trends/Tools in Project Planning |
| Lecture 56 - Industry Perspective - Prof. N. Raghavan |
| Lecture 57 - Final Example Pattern, Acknowledgements |