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 |