BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI

DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMMES DIVISION

Masters in Business Administration

First Semester 2018-2019

C OURSE NUMBER : MBAZG523/ DEZG523/ ESZG523/

MMZG523/ QMZG523
COURSE TITLE : P ROJECT MANAGEMENT
Date of Submission : 11th Nov 2018

Assignment-II

This assignment is an individual student assignment. You are to write a 6-8 pages (maximum
length 4,000 words) Term Paper on any subject of your choice in the field of Project
management or prepare a case study on project executed in any organization. Assignment will
be assessed on critical thinking, logical presentation and quality of content.
Notes
1. Proprietary material may not be submitted as part of course assignment. This is
considered plagiarism and could result in severe penalties to the student.
2. Please note that the information presented in assignment will remain confidential and
will not be published. You are requested not to copy a case study from Internet.
3. It is student’s responsibility to secure his/her work from unauthorized duplication.
4. Scanned version of hand written assignments will be accepted; however, it is the
student’s responsibility to verify the writing is legible.
5. You must cite a source for every major facts or statement. You must also share reference
details of source of information.

Suggested Topics for Research & Term Papers

1. Global Project Management Challenges
2. Establishing and Managing Project Management Office
3. Challenges of tailoring and adjusting the Project Management Methodologies
4. Quantitative Risk Management
5. Project Management Tools
6. Planning project budgets in the face of unreliable estimates
7. Designing the project organization, information and scope.
8. Project Quality management principles and tools
9. Resolving issues in your project using 6 Sigma tools
10. R&D/ Consulting / IT Project Management Best Practices
11. Project stress management
12. Project conflict management
13. Managing crisis projects
14. Agile Project Management etc

You can choose your own topic.