Reminder:Feedback for Project Management
Dear student
We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.
We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.
In
this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our
course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to
suggest.
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would
request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your
observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.
The link to give your feedback is :
https://goo.gl/AfVNIi
We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team
Regarding Assignment-8
Dear All,
Assignment 8 solutions have been released. The solutions provided are just a basic explanation of the concepts asked. We are still evaluating your submission and you'll be graded on the contents that you have provided. There will not be any negative marks for writing more than the word limits but you may be penalized for repeating the same concept more than once.
As already said, there will be no subjective type assignments. So, there is no need to learn concepts of GERT, Q-GERT, TOC by heart. Just knowing the concepts will be enough for getting good grades.
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Project Management: Regarding Final Examination
Dear All,
Please read this notification very carefully regarding the final examination.
1. Read the instructions provided on notification "Hall ticket for March 26th NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download" posted on 13th March, 2017.
2. The final exam will be of 100 marks, having 2 sections. All Questions will be of MCQ type.
3. It will be a 3 hour exam having MCQ type questions. You'll get plenty of time to solve each question. There will be numerical as well as conceptual questions similar to the pattern of questions asked in the assignments. There will be NO short answer/ subjective type questions as asked in Assingment-8.
4. Follow only whatever is taught in the video lectures. Nothing will be asked outside whatever is taught in the course. You can refer the books as mentioned in the course content for your preparation.
5. Please revise all assignment questions as they WILL be asked, with or without, changed data.
6. There will be at-least 1 or 2 questions asked from each topic(s) taught in the course. So, it will not be a good idea to skip topics and do a selective study. You may loose your grades.
7. Question set for the morning and the afternoon sessions will be completely different. This is to ensure fairness among all candidates appearing in both sessions. Candidates appearing in the afternoon session will not get any added advantage in case they get to know about questions from candidates who have appeared in the morning session.
8. Final exam will be 75% of your total grades and average of best 6 out of 8 assignments will be the rest 25% of the total.
9. We have rechecked all assignment submissions and corrected grades of deserving candidates. In case there are still discrepancies in your assignment scores, please do let us know. Assignment-8 is a subjective type and it may take us time to evaluate. Try to have patience till scores are released.
10. Don't try to involve in any unfair means to get good grades in the exam. Study well and we'll take care of the rest. We promise we have tried our best to ensure every registered candidates gets the best of the grades. Be honest to yourself and to us.
11. In case you have other queries, do let us know in advance, at-least a day before 26th March. Don't keep it for the 11th hour.
Please provide your genuine valuable feedback regarding our efforts in making this course as per your expectations.
We wish you ALL THE BEST for your examination and we hope you'll find this course useful for your future endeavor.
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Regarding Assignment 6, Question 21-25
Dear All,
There seem to be a confusion regarding Q21 and Q22 of Assignment-6. As per the questions asked, many have got confused by the approach of the problem. The question was extremely simple but there was only one catch in the problem - we ask you to find a quantity "when all activities are crashed" means that you are free to crash all activities provided you are allowed to do it as per the given data and the rules that have been taught for crashing of jobs. Kindly go through the solution and the video lectures again in case of any problem in the concept.
In Q21 and Q22, we thank Mr. Piyush Aggarwal and Mr. Dharanidharan Selvamani for pointing out a typing error in the solutions provided (option number). Corrected and updated solutions have been re-uploaded. The concepts remain the same with no change in the solution. Please check.
In case of further doubt, please let us know.
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Regarding Assignment 8 (Please Read)
Dear All,
As may of you are facing problem in submission of assignment 8, we are extending the deadline for submission by TWO more days, i.e., deadline for submission of Assignment-8 is now 23rd March, 2017 by 23:59 Hrs IST.
Submission links are working fine. We have received many submission till date. Please read the following instructions while uploading your file:
1. Please note that you have disabled "Pop-up blocker" or Ad-blocker" for https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in. We guarantee you we don't spread malwares or worms through our server. So, you can safely turn them off for our website. Upload link will not be generated in case you have kept your pop-up blocker turned on.
2. You can upload only one file. If you have several files i.e., one file for each question, please make sure you have zipped them all in *.zip/*.rar and make them all a single file before you submit. Make sure you have renamed each file separately else they will be overwritten in our server after you have uploaded them.
3. Please click on "Add file" button in the assignment page. A pop-up will be generated where you'll be guided through the upload process. This is a self learned and very easy process. You need to drag-drop or locate your assignment file on your computer/ google drive and make your submission. In case you face any difficulties during upload, please let us know before the revised deadline.
4. You can send us your solutions in any readable file type format such as *.doc, *.pdf , *.txt etc. Please make sure that your solutions/responses are legible and doesn't pose a problem for us during evaluation. We suggest to upload all your solutions in a single *.PDF file.
5. You can submit handwritten answers or typed in a word processor. If you are submitting a handwritten answer, please make sure your handwriting is legible. We will discourage scanned copies of handwritten assignments but in case you have already prepared, please don't worry about it. We'll grade it all provided we are able to read it.
Solutions for Assignment-8 will be uploaded on 24th March, 2017.
Please post your queries in the forum in case you find the upload process too complex. We can look for some alternate solutions for such cases. But please make sure that you don't post your queries or some technical issues few minutes before the deadline.
Thanks and Regards,
NPTEL Team
Correction in Q18 Assignment 7
Dear All,
We have re-evaluated question 18 of assignment 7 and we have found error in the solution provided. The solution has been updated on the Week-7 tab in the portal. We are re-evaluating each individual response for this question. In case, there is any mistake from our end, we'll correct it latest by this week end. We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Assignment-8 is available on the portal from 15th March, 2017 onward
Project Management - Week 8 Videos Available
Dear Participants,
The week-8 video lectures for the course "Project Management" have been released in the portal.
Happy Learning!
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team
Hall ticket for March 26th NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download.
Dear Candidate:
If you have registered for the March 26th NPTEL Online certification exam, your Admit Card/ Hall ticket is now available inside your application form:
1. Please visit the link: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/
Login
with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to access
the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam) and its
password to access the link and click on March exams to download the
hall ticket(s) for the March 26th exams, from the link.
2. You can also download it from the alternate link given below:
https://www3.digialm.com//EForms/configuredHtml/885/51559/login.html
Please
try to access both the links to download your hall ticket, if you are
not able to find your hall ticket in both the links., kindly write to us
at nptel@iitm.ac.in.
Note: that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on March 26th 2017.
Please
download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a original ID
card, carry it with you to the venue (The exam centre address is there
in the hall ticket). Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall
ticket carefully and follow them.
Note1:- If
you are writing 2 exams – Forenoon and Afternoon sessions, please
ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets which will be hosted
inside the login.
In case of the any problems with the hall ticket kindly write to us nptel@iitm.ac.in
IMPORTANT:
1. Change of shift, course, exam center, exam city will not be encouraged.
2.
You will not be allowed to write the exam if you are showing up in the
exam center which is not allocated to you by mistake or by intention.
3. Entry beyond 09:30 AM in FN and 2:30 PM in AN will not be entertained.
4. Candidates will not be allowed to write the exam without Hall ticket and proper id proof.
NPTEL Team wishes you the very best for the certification exam.
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL team
Project Management - Week 6 Assignment Solution Available
Dear Candidates,
The Assignment solution of Week 6 has been released in the course portal.
Thanks and regards
NPTEL Team
Assignment-7 is available on the portal from 8th March, 2017 onward
Dear Candidates,
Please note that assignment-7 is available on the portal. Last Date of submission of Assignment-7 is 14th March, 2017; 23:59 Hrs IST. Please feel free to ask questions regarding assignment questions also. We are here to assist you on every single question you ask for. Please provide your valuable feedback regarding assignments-Level and quality.
Last date for submission for Assignment-6 is 9th March, 2017 at 23:59 Hrs IST. Please keep your responses saved.
Thank you
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Project Management - Week 7 Videos Available
Dear Participants,
The week-7 video lectures for the course "Project Management" have been released in the portal. Assignment-7 will be released on 8th Mar, 2017. Last date for submission of Assignment-6 is 9th March, 2017 at 23:59 Hrs IST.
Syllabus for Week-7 is as follows:
Lecture 31: Detailed Explanation on Crashing of Jobs Slide: 386-401
a) Crashing of Jobs-Detailed explanation with an example
Lecture 32: Project scheduling and Crashing – An Example Slide: 402-415
a) An example showing Crashing of Jobs
b) Project Control Techniques – volume, time etc.
Lecture 33: Earned Value Management Slide: 416-425
a) Earned Value Project
b) Costs: Tools and Techniques
Lecture 34: Key components of Earned Value Management Slides: 426-434
a) Planned Value
b) Earned Value
c) Actual Cost of Work Performed
d) Scheduled Performance Index
e) Cost Performance Index
f) Budget at Completion
Lecture 35: Introduction to Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT) I Slides:
a) Introduction to GERT
b) Components of GERT
c) OR and AND Statement
Happy Learning and have fun,
NPTEL Team
Correction in Assignment 6 Question 8
Dear candidates,
There is a correction in Assignment 6, Question no. 8:
Option C should be "Activity A or Activity C" instead of "Activity A and Activity C".
We are extremely sorry for the typing mistake from our side. We thank Mr. Vijay Raghvan for pointing out this error.
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Deadline for submission of Assignment-6 has been extended
Dear Candidates,
The deadline for submission of Assignment-6 has been extended from 7th March, 2017 to 9th March 2017.
Lecture videos may be available for downloading purpose from tomorrow onward i.e 3rd March, 2017.
Thanks and Regards,
NPTEL Team
Assignment-6 is available on the portal from 1st March, 2017 onwards
Dear Candidates,
Please note that assignment-6 and solutions of Assignment-5 is available on the portal. Last Date of submission of Assignment-6 is 7th March, 2017; 23:59 Hrs. Please feel free to ask questions regarding assignment questions also. We are here to assist you on every single question you ask for. Please provide your valuable feedback regarding assignments-Level and quality.
We'll post an announcement shortly regarding re-evaluation of assignment scores of all candidates. You'll see a change in your score if there is some some mistake from our side in evaluation.
Thank you
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Project Management - Week 6 Videos Available
Dear Participants,
The week-6 video lectures for the course "Project Management" have been released in the portal. Assignment-6 will be released on 1st Mar, 2017. Last date for submission of Assignment-5 is 28th, 2017 at 23:59 Hrs IST
Syllabus for Week-6 is as follows:
Lecture 26: Discounting Rates and Project Pricing Slide: 305-321
a) Discounting Rates – (Fixed and Variable)
b) Internal Rate of Return
c) Cost and Yield from Project
d) Project Pricing
e) Zero Curves
Lecture 27: Concept of Forward Rates and Payback Time Slide: 322-336
a) The method of Bootstrapping
b) Bootstrapping the Zero Curve
c) Forward Rates
d) Concept of Payback Time
Lecture 28: Important Example of PERT Network involving Probabilistic time and variance I Slide: 337-355
a) Concept on Return on Investments
b) Example based on PERT Network
c) Concept of Probabilistic Time and Variance
Lecture 29: Scheduling and Crashing of Jobs Slide: 356-361
a) Activity Network Diagram
b) Crashing Jobs
Lecture 30: Resource leveling and resource constraint Slide: 362-371
a) Crashing of Jobs continue
b) Time Cost Trade off
c) Resource Leveling and Resource Allocation
d) Cumulative Resource Requirement Curve
e) Resource Constraint
Happy Learning and have fun,
NPTEL Team
Assignment-5 is available on the portal from 22nd February, 2017 onwards (Please Read)
Dear Candidates,
Please note that assignment-5 is available on the portal. Last Date of submission is 28th February, 2017; 23:59 Hrs.
We have tried to keep the assignment as simple as possible for you all to score high. Please make sure that you complete the assignments before the deadline and please don't keep it for the last hour for submission. It becomes extremely difficult for our technical team to support or work on individual issues regarding assignment submissions if you face any such on the very last moment. We also want to make tell you that "ASSIGNMENTS CAN BE SUBMITTED ANY NUMBER OF TIMES TILL THE DEADLINE." Please submit your assignments from time to time in order to save your responses. Once the deadline is over, no assignment re-submission will be permitted.
Please feel free to ask questions regarding assignment questions also. We are here to assist you on every single question you ask for.
Please provide your feedback regarding assignments-Level and quality.
Thank you
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Project Management - Week 5 Videos Available
Dear Participants,
The week-5 video lectures for the course "Project Management" have been released in the portal. Assignment-5 will be released on 22nd Feb, 2017. Last date for submission of Assignment-4 is 21st, 2017.
Syllabus for Week-5 is as follows:
Lecture 21: Concept of CRITICAL PATH METHOD (CPM) and Introduction to PERT Slide: 247-266
a) Introduction to CPM
b) Concepts of Early and Late start for an activity
c) Rules for Activity on ARC concept
d) Concepts of Precedence Relationship
e) Rules for calculating Precedence Relationship
f) Introduction to PERT
g) Application of Beta Distribution in PERT
h) Calculations used in PERT
i) Forward Pass Method
Lecture 22: PROGRAM EVALUATION REVIEW TECHNIQUE (PERT) I Slide: 267-278
a) Backward Pass Method
b) Concept of free slack, total slack etc.
c) Application of Central Limit theorem in calculating time duration
d) Applications of GNATT chart in PERT
e) Application of PERT and CPM
Lecture 23: PROGRAM EVALUATION REVIEW TECHNIQUE (PERT) II Slide: 279-287
a) Project Graph in PERT
b) Project Graphs with expected time and Standard Deviation
c) Introduction to Forward and Backward Scheduling
Lecture 24: Aspects and applications of CPM and PERT Slide: 288-296
a) Chance of completion of a project within the due date
b) Concept and Phases of a Project Life cycle
Lecture 25: Concepts of a Project Life Cycle Slide: 297-304
a) Stages of Project Life Cycle
b) Stages under Planning – Design, Plan, Allocation
c) Stages under Execution – Control
d) Stages under Termination – Deliver, Review, Support
e) SWOT analysis for Projects
f) Application of Discounting Factor
g) Application of Net Present Value concept in a Project Life Cycle
Happy Learning and have fun,
NPTEL Team
Last 1 week for Exam Registartion - Hurry up!!!
Dear student
The certification exam will be conducted at
designated centres in the city chosen by you. You have to register for
the exam by filling up the form, paying the exam fee and appear in
person to get the certificate.
Register for the exam today at: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/
Exam registration form closes on 22 February 2017 at 10:00am.
For other details about exam registration, please check our previous announcement.
Type of exam: Online
Online:
You
will have to appear at the allotted exam centre and produce your Hall
ticket and Government Identification Card(Example: Driving
License,Passport, PAN card, Voter ID, Aadhaar-ID with your Name, date of
birth, photograph and signature) for verification and take the exam in
person. You can find the exam allotted exam center details in the hall
ticket.
The questions will be on the computer and the answers
will have to be entered on the computer; type of questions may include
multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, essay type answers, etc
The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively around 15th March 2017.
FINAL CERTIFICATE:
The final score = 25% assignment score + 75% final certification exam score.
The final score will determine if you will/will not receive a certificate.
1. Final score < 40%: NO certificate
2. Final score between 40% -59%: Certificate of type "Successfully completing the course"
3. Final score between 60% -89%: Certificate with tag "Elite" printed at the top
4. Final score of 90% and above: Certificate with "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.
The sample format is attached here for your reference:
Photos of Toppers in every course are published on the website http://nptel.ac.in/noc along with the name of the college/organization you belong to.
Click here to take a look at a sample page: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/individual_course.php?id=noc16-ce12
Best of luck for the exams.
- NPTEL team
Project Management - Week 4 Videos Available
Dear Participants,
The week-4 video lectures for the course "Project Management" have been released in the portal. Assignment-4 will be released on 15th Feb, 2017.
We hope Assignment 3 is up to your expectation. Please provide your feed back regarding the same. As for assignment 1, we are re-considering about it and will inform you all in a few days.Lecture 16: Application of Utility Theory in Project Management-III. Slide: 166-180
a) Theory of Utility (cont.)
b) Application of Utility Theory in Project Management.
c) Problem Discussion and Field of Applications
Lecture 17: Application of Utility Theory in Project Management-IV. Slide: 181-191
a) Problems involving Utility theory in Project Management
b) Axioms of Utility Function
c) Concept involving Probabilistic vs. Deterministic Utility Functions
d) Other criteria involving Project Selection – Geometric Mean Return
Lecture 18: Other Criteria used for Project Selection Slide: 192-206
a) Safety First Principle
b) Criteria for Safety first principle
c) Maximizing and Minimizing Probability
d) Application of Chebyshev inequality
Lecture 19: Work Breakdown Structure in Project Management Slide: 207-226
a) Schematic Expression of WBS
b) Cost estimation Method in Project Management
c) Cost Structure and Contingency Allowance
d) Project Management Scheduling
e) GANTT Chart, Network concept and Project Graphs
f) Precedence Diagram in Project Management
g) Project Planning
h) Concept of Activity on Arc and Activity on Nodes
Lecture 20: Activity Networks used in Project Management Slide: 227-246
a) Rules for developing Activity networks
b) Concept of Precedence Diagram and Project Graphs
c) Use of Activity Network in Project Planning
d) Introduction of Critical Path
e) Simple costing method for a project
Happy Learning and have fun,
NPTEL Team
About Week 3 Slides
Dear Candidates,
We have uploaded slides for week 3 in its corresponding tab. The slides may have few pages organized in a different way as it has appeared in the video. We have provided the complete lecture notes for 3 weeks and may be some part of week 4 too. Please view the sides and let us know if any part is missing or if you are facing any trouble interpreting it.
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Assignment-3 is available on the portal from 8th February, 2017 onwards (Please Read)
Dear Candidates,
Please note that assignment-3 is available on the portal. Last Date of submission is 14th February, 2017; 23:59 Hrs.
We have tried to keep the assignment as simple as possible for you all to score high. Please make sure that you complete the assignments before the deadline and please don't keep it for the last hour for submission. We also want to make tell you that "ASSIGNMENTS CAN BE SUBMITTED ANY NUMBER OF TIMES TILL THE DEADLINE." Please submit your assignments from time to time in order to save your responses.
Please feel free to ask questions regarding assignment questions also. We are here to assist you on every single question you ask for.
Please provide your feedback regarding assignments-Level and quality.
Thank you
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Project Management - Week 3 Videos Available
Dear Participants,
The week-3 video lectures for the course "Project Management" have been released in the portal. Assignment-3 will be released on 8th Feb, 2017.
Deadline for submission of assignment-1 and assignment-2 is 7th Feb, 2017. Deadline will not be extended.
As there has been many complaints regarding the difficulty level of assignment-1 and 2, we'll make sure you all will have relatively easier assignments from this week. Our aim for having assignments is not to make you practice what is taught in the videos but to cover some of the left over parts of the course which couldn't be covered in the videos due to time constraint. We feel, if you work on the assignments, you will be equipped better to address issues related to any projects but I guess, this is not working for us all. Assignment-3 will be upto your expectations.
Lecture 11: Analytic Hierarchy Process for Project Selection. Slide: 105-120
a) Ranking Criteria and decision process
b) Ranking Priorities and formulation of criteria weights
c) Check for Consistency and calculation of Consistency Ratio
d) Formulating Priority Vector
Lecture 12: Decision Tree Analysis. Slide: 121-122
a) Identification of the Problem
b) Delineate the decision tree
c) Specification of the probabilities of monetary outcomes
d) Formation of Decision forks
Lecture 13: Decision Tree Analysis and Risk Management. Slide: 123-128
a) Decision trees continue
b) Ways of minimizing project risks
c) Introduction to Decision analysis
Lecture 14: Application of Utility Theory in Project Management-I. Slide: 129-146
a) Introduction to Utility Theory of decision analysis
b) Working with Utility Functions
c) Concepts of Risk Neutrality, Risk Averseness and Risk Seeking
Lecture 15: Application of Utility Theory in Project Management-II. Slide: 147-165
a) Concepts of Risk Neutrality, Risk Averseness and Risk Seeking (cont.)
b) Concept of derivatives of Utility Function
c) Utility curves
d) Concept of Marginal Utility Function
e) Absolute risk aversion and Relative risk aversion properties of Utility Function
f) Different forms of Utility Function
g) Problem Discussion
Happy Learning and have fun,
NPTEL Team
Reminder 1: REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!
Dear Student:
Here is the much-awaited
announcement on registering for the March 2017 certification exam. The
registration for the certification exam is only open to students who have
enrolled in the course.
Registration is open from 2nd FEBRUARY 2017 (Thursday)
until 22nd FEBRUARY 2017 10:00 AM (Wednesday).
The certification exam registration URL is: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/
(If you want to register for the exam for this course, login here using the
same email id used to enroll to the course)
Dates of exam: 26th March 2017(Sunday) [Forenoon-Shift
1/Afternoon Shift 2] (You
can choose any one shift according to your convenience for writing the exam).
You can register for a maximum of 2 course exams (same day of exam – 2 sessions.
Same exam city will be allocated for both the sessions) through this form.
Exam Session time: Shift 1 - 9.00AM -12.00PM ; Shift 2 - 2.00PM - 5.00PM
Examination Cities: The exam is to be conducted in several cities
across India whose list is available on the registration form.
Click here to
access the list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/LocalChapter/Assets/spoc_refdocs/March%202017%20Exam%20cities.pdf
Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
(Students belonging to the SC/ST category can avail a 50% fee waiver - please
select Yes for the SC/ST option and upload the correct Community certificate)
Mode of payment: Online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking.
HALL TICKET:
The hall ticket will be available
for download tentatively between 12 -16th March 2017. We will confirm the same
through an announcement once it is published.
Final score on certificate: 25% of assignment score + 75% of
certification exam score.
Award of certificate: Hard and soft copy
of Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the
exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%
The final score, assignment score and exam score will be printed on the
certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website (http://nptel.ac.in/noc), where on
logging in, your scores and e-certificate will be available for
verification (Appropriate announcements will be made). Please do
regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.
IMPORTANT NOTES
1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:- Once
the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or
removing the chosen course, exam shift, city is possible. So, if you are
choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make the payment for both courses at the same time. It is
not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the
registration form will be non-editable.
2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE GOT SCHOLARSHIP VIA YOUR LOCAL CHAPTER:
-
Students who have got scholarship via NPTEL local chapter can opt to pay
individually using the above form. While doing so, the reduced fee will
automatically apply.
3) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR
COLLEGE:-
There are 2 modes of operation:
Option 1
1. You will pay fees to your SPOC.
2. Your SPOC will pay the fees to NPTEL on your behalf and also will provide us all details including photo, signature.
3. We will populate all the fields in the exam form.
4. Your responsibility will be to come to the exam form and verify that the details in the exam form are correct.
Option 2
1. In the exam form, you will fill all the details and also upload photo, signature.
2. Ensure that you had selected your college name correctly from the drop-down list in the form.
3. Payment of exam fees - click on the tab - 'PAY VIA SPOC'.
The SPOC has to now confirm to NPTEL that he/she will pay fees on your behalf.
If the SPOC says NO, you will be intimated via email.
Then it becomes your responsibility to come back to the exam form and make the payment.
If you do not pay the exam fees within the prescribed time, you will not be able to write the exam.
After submitting the form, in case you wish to change the name, date of birth, address, photo and signature Please login to http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/edit_details.php and make the changes till February 22, 2017.
The following data initially submitted cannot be changed –email id, course selected, shift, exam city, SC/ST. For changes in this email us at nptel@iitm.ac.in giving your Application number, email id and name. No changes will be entertained in these details after February 22 2017.
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL TEAMAssignment-2 is available on the portal from 1st February, 2017 onwards
Dear All,
Please note that assignment-2 is available on the portal. Last Date of submission is 7th February, 2017.
Please feel free to ask questions regarding assignment questions also. We are here to assist you on every single question you ask for. If you unable to solve any question, please don't loose heart and move on to the next question. Practice the assignment question as they may be asked in the final examination.
Also please remember that assignments are not examinations. Assignments are provided for you to work on and search for the answers in books/ website/course contents etc. for the portion covered in video lectures. This is for you to work and develop your competency in the subject matter. In this course we have tried to focus on theoretical aspects of project management in the first two weeks and then we move to quantitative tools used in Project Management.
Please provide your feedback regarding assignments-Level and quality. If you feel that questions needs to be addressed only to the contents covered in the video, let us know about it. We'll try to adhere to your suggestion from assignment-3 onward.
Thank you
Regards,
NPTEL Team
Project Management - Week 2 Videos Available
Dear Participants,
The week-2 video lectures for the course "Project Management" have been released in the portal.
The syllabus for week-2 is as follows:
Lecture 6: Project Stakeholder and Risk Management. Slide: 61-68
a) Project Stakeholder Management
b) Project Risk Management-Types of Risk, Uncertainty
c) Stages in Project Risk Management
Lecture 7: Project Risk Management. Slide: 69-75
a) Risk Identification-Risk Impact Matrix
b) Strategies to eliminate risks
c) Project Management decision Process/ model
d) Introduction to Expected Value Concept
Lecture 8: Solving Project Management Decision Problems Slide: 76-85
a) Decision Tree modelling and analysis
b) Basic Planning Technique
c) Project Management Evaluation
d) Profitability Analysis
e) Cost Calculations
Lecture 9: Project Risk Management Analysis I. Slide: 86-95
a) Analysis of various forms of Risk associated with Project Management
b) An introduction to Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Lecture 10: Project Risk Management Analysis II. Slide: 86-105
a) CAPM continue
b) Linearity of Pricing
c) Certainty Equivalent Form
d) Criteria to choose the best project
e) Work Breakdown Structure in Project Management
Assignments-2 will be Uploaded on 01st February, 2017 and the deadline for submission of assignments-2 will be 07th February, 2017.
Happy Learning!
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team
Assignment-1 will be made available on the portal from 25th January, 2017 onwards
Dear All,
Please note that as we have extended the last date for registration till 30th January, 2017, weekly course assignment for the 1st week will be released today, 25th January, 2017. Date of submission is 7th February, 2017.
Thank you
Regards,
NPTEL Team
General Instruction and Important Information about the course
Dear All,
Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!
Details regarding the course:
Name of the course: Project management
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_mg01
Course duration: 8 weeks. 20 hrs - 5 Lectures/week (30 mins each approx.)
Date of exam: 26 March 2017
Time of exam: shift 1: 9 am-12 noon; shift 2: 2 pm-5 pm
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form
Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly
Course Structure and way to study:
1. This is a 20 hours course. We have tried to discuss each and every theoretical aspects related to Project Management in the first 2 weeks. For reference, we highly recommend the following books to understand the theory:
a. Chandra, P., Projects, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2009, ISBN: 0070077932 | ISBN: 978007007793
b. Moder, J. J. and Phillips, C. R., Project Management With CPM, PERT and Precedence Diagramming, Van Nostrand Reinhold,1983, ISBN-10: 0442254156 | ISBN-13: 978-0442254155.
Some people may also like to appear for PMP and other certification courses after this. You can read “A guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide, 6th Edition)” for an overall theoretical structure development related to project management. Although this will be time consuming to read a 200 page book, we only recommend you to read it in your leisure but make sure you read it at-least once as it will help a lot in this course.
2. This course will be mainly focusing in learning tools and techniques used in Project Management for Risk Analysis, Project Selection, Project Scheduling etc. Week 3 onward, the course will be more of quantitative in nature and less of theory. It is advisable to have a basic knowledge of Probability and Statistics (UG) level in order to have a clear understanding of this course:
3. Assignments:
a. Assignments will be uploaded on Wednesdays of every week and it has to be submitted by every Tuesdays of the week that follows.
b. All questions will be multiple choice types.
c. Each assignment will consist of 25-50 questions depending of the amount of content covered in that particular week.
d. All questions carry equal weight age.
e. You can submit your assignment any number of times till the last date expires. After the last date, if you have not submitted your assignment, it will be considered as unattempted and you will receive a NO points in that assignment.
f. Assignments will carry a total of 25% weight-age of the total marks. Best 6 out of 8 assignments will be considered for evaluating your final grades.
g. So, it is advisable for all candidates who will be appearing for the certification examinations to take all assignments very seriously and try to perform your best.
4. Examination: Please keep checking the Announcement Section/ Discussion Forum for updates on examination pattern and type.
5. Please make sure that you can discuss your queries related to Project Management only in the Forum or mail to < noc17-mg01@nptel.iitm.ac.in >. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURSE INSTRUCTOR WITH YOUR PROBLEMS RELATED TO NPTEL-PROJECT MANAGEMENT course.
Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.
Regards,
NPTEL Team.
Project Management - Week 1 Videos Available
Dear Participants,
The week-1 video lectures for the course "Project Management" have been released in the portal.
The syllabus for week-1 is as follows:
Lecture 1: Introduction to Project Management. Slide: 1-8
a) What are Projects?
b) Difference between Production and Projects
c) Characteristics of Projects
d) Definition of Project Management
Lecture 2: Introduction to Agile Project Management. Slide: 9-22
a) Methods of Project Management –Scope, Risk Management, Work breakdown Structure, Cost Estimation, Gantt chart, PERT, CPM, GERT etc.
b) Philosophy of Project Management
c) History of Project Management
d) Important aspects of Project Management
e) Introduction to Agile Project Management
f) Elements of Project Management
Lecture 3: Project Management Process for a Project-I. Slide: 23-32
a) Key Performance Indicators
b) Success Factors distinguishing perfect project management and successful project implementation
c) Project Management Maturity
Lecture 4: Project Management Process for a Project-II. Slide: 33-46
a) Project Management Missions and Objectives
b) Classification of Projects
c) Characteristics of Project Management
d) Stages of Project Management
e) Project Management Development Cycle
Lecture 5: Project Management Process for a Project-III. Slide: 47-60
a) Project Management Development Cycle (cont.)
b) Project Life Cycles
c) Stages of a Project/Project life cycle
d) Project Execution Model
e) Phases in a Project
f) Capital Value of a Project
g) Management of a Project – Owners/Stakeholders
Assignments will be Uploaded on 25th January, 2017 and the deadline for submission of assignments will be 31st January, 2017.
Happy Learning!
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team
Welcome to Project Management
Dear student
Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!
Thank you for signing up for our online course "Project Management". We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.
The course will begin on January 23 2017. When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning.
We will open registration for the exam soon after the course starts. A form has to be filled and the certification exam has a fee, which needs to be paid at the time of registration. Everyone who has signed-up for the course, including those who do not register for the exam, will continue to have access to the course contents.
There are two sections on the portal apart from the course content and assignment sections:
• The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.
• The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.
Details regarding the course:
Name of the course: Project management (8 weeks : 20 hrs)
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_mg01
Course duration: 8 weeks
Date of exam: 26 March 2017
Time of exam: shift 1: 9 am-12 noon; shift 2: 2 pm-5 pm
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form
Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly
Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.
- NPTEL team
