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PROJECT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AND ENVIRONMENT (3 Credit Hours)

Project Management Framework: Differentiate between project and operations, project management,roles and responsibilities of project manager and other project stakeholders, organizational factors influencing project management, project life cycles and its types, project management processes, best practices in project management, project Evolution and Feasibility. Project Safety and Environment: Causes and occurrences of accidents, hierarchy of risk control, work place hazards, fire hazards, work equipment hazards, electrical hazards, transportation hazards, chemical and biological hazards

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESSES (3 Credit hours)

Project Scope Management: Product and project scope, collect requirements, develop scope statement,develop WBS and its associated dictionary. Project Schedule Management: Processes and tools used for the project time management, such as developing schedule model, methods of time estimation, precedence diagraming methods (network),developing schedules. Project Cost Management: Processes used in the project cost management and development of budget, such as estimate cost, developing budget, control cost using the performance measurement baselines. Project Quality Management: Quality and Quality Management, Quality function deployments. Project Risk Management: Risk identification, risk assessment using quantitative and qualitative tools,developing strategies to mitigating risk, risk response and control

ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESSES (3 Credit Hours)

Project Integration Management: Integration of project management plans, monitoring and controlling project management, change management plan, change management process, managing project in integrated way Project Resource Management : Types resources used in project, resource estimation techniques, types of cost associated with the resources, Human resource and its types, acquiring human resource, developing human resource and managing human resource, personal skill matrix, defining roles and responsibilities, responsibility assignment matrix, resource leveling and optimization Project Procurement Management: Project management processes in procurement management, types of contract, legal aspects of contract management, managing procurements, pre-qualification of vendors and suppliers, vendor and supplier evaluation techniques, supply chain management of procurements, SPPRA/PPRA rules for the governmental project management

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS (PRIMAVERA AND AGILE) (3 Credit Hours)

Agile Techniques: Project life cycles in changing environment, tools used in agile project management, configuration management, assessment of project management using diamond tool PRIMAVERA: Interface of software, developing pre-requisites of project information, entering project management plans into the PMIS, applying tools of project management, developing reports for the project management control and monitoring.

PROJECT LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE (3 Credit Hours)

Content / Description: Difference between leaders and managers, types of leaders, requirements of leadership skills, benefits and use of leadership skills, types of teams, team management tools, defining roles and responsibilities, accountability of team members, performance evaluation of team members, team and assignment management. Project management office and their responsibilities, project management maturity, tools to measure project management maturity, performance measurement baselines, and project administration. Guest Lecture: PM Framework of Planning Commission of Pakistan.