eMDP ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT

(February-October, 2022)

Challenges in Managing Projects in Uncertain

Environment & Strategic Project Management
 Important Program Details

• Faculty Coordinator: Dr. Rupesh Kumar Pati (on academic

matters) – also for issues not resolved by admin in 4 days
connect to me.
• Email: rupesh_pati@iimk.ac.in,
• Contact Person
• Ashitha (from IIMK) – on Administrative issues
• e-mail : csmdp11@iimk.ac.in , phone no: 0495-2809388
• Rules: Chat & live Participation, experience sharing, challenges
faced
• Donot connect to times on Academic (content, submission etc.)
matter.
• If any one interested to withdraw, feel free in 10 days, I would
request to return all amount (except expenses incurred)
 Methodology

• Combination of Lectures, case Studies, Presentations &

Exercises, video analysis, simulation, experience sharing etc.

• Case submission on VC link or learning management system

• User Id and password can be collected from

csmdp11@iimk.ac.in or would have been sent to you
eMDP-PMP06 Batch Profile
Is project management relevant to any
one specific industry only?
Do We Need It?????
Are the projects driving you crazy?
 Time to Have Formal
Inputs In
Project Management …
What do we want from Project Management?

• Reliable on time in full to budget delivery performance

More revenue, more Profit, happy customers
• A stable plan
More Productive use of resources
• Simple, objective measures of Project progress
Shorter meetings, better informed
stakeholders - less waste, more productivity
• Clear signals for when corrective action is - and is not - necessary
Better directed recovery efforts - less waste, more productivity
• Direction for ongoing improvement efforts
The future brings more revenue, more profit, happier
customers than the present
 And what we normally get!!

• Reliable on time in full to budget delivery performance ?

• Or A continuous struggle with time, cost and scope ?
• A stable plan
• Or Repeated rescheduling ?
• Simple, objective measures of Project progress ?
• Or Clarity at the start and end, thick fog in between ?
• Simple, objective measures of Project health status ?
• Or Subjective assessments compounded by human factors ?
• Clear signals for when corrective action is - and is not -
necessary ?
• Or Intervening too much too early, and too little too late ?
• Direction for ongoing improvement efforts ?
• Or "We'll improve our methods when things get better"
 What is a Project?
A project is a:
• Complex,
• non-routine and
• one time effort
• limited by time, budget, resources & performance spec.

PURPOSE
• To accomplish some objective or goal

STRUCTURE
• A set of interrelated jobs whose accomplishment leads to the completion
of the project
• Jobs or activities consume time and resources and are governed by
precedence relations
 What is a project?
“A Project is an agreed upon set of
resources and activities that have
been designed to produce
predetermined outputs within a
given budget and time limit”
A Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or results
(https://www.pmi.org/about/learn-about-pmi/what-is-project-management)
Te r m Me ans that a Pr
Specific ojeLife
Fixed ct Huge but
temporary Has a beginningSpan
objective(s) and end limited Budget
endeavor Involves effort, work
to create Has an intention to produce something (project
Scope
"deliverables" Due Date Budget (Cost)
unique (Time) than a collection of identical items
One of a kind, rather

“A Project Tangible
product is an agreed uponbut
objects, set could
of resources
includeand activities
things like that
computer software, film or stage works
have
service been designed to produce
Might include predetermined
the establishment of outputs within
a day-care a
center,
given budgetforand time limit”
instance, but not its daily operations.
 Complexity vs Uncertainty

• Deployment vs Development project

• Structured Vs Flexible project management

 Features of Projects
• Part of programs
• Multi-disciplinary
• Well defined collection of jobs
• Generally non-repetitive, one time effort
• Jobs interrelated through precedence
• Jobs consume time and resources
• Constant pressure of conformance to
time/cost /performance goals
• Conflicts
• Coordination needed between individuals,
groups & organizations
 What is true with most projects?

• Around ____% of projects face Mgmt.

problems
• Time over run
• Scope creep
• Premature closure
• Poor quality (post project evaluation)
• Cost escalation
• Challenges of resource mismatch & utilisation
 eMDP on Project Management (Feb 26 - Oct 1, 2022) :: Coordinator- Prof. Rupesh Kumat Pati
Week Day Date Timings Session Faculty

Week 1 Saturday 26 February 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Introduction to eMDP, Strategic Project Management Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 2 Saturday 05 March 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Life Cycle vs Software Development Life Cycle, Projects in R& D environment, Project Selection Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 3 Saturday 12 March 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Financial Apprais al Prof. Abhilash Nair

Week 4 Saturday 19 March 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Market Appraisal- Infos ys Case Prof. Joffi Thomas

Week 5 Saturday 26 March 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Selection- Case, Project Organization structure, Project Scope & Charter Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Prof. Mousumi Padhi (Ass ociate

Week 6 Saturday 02 April 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Managing Project Teams in New World
Profess or, XIMB)
Week 7 Saturday 09 April 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Developing Project Plan-I: Creating WBS, Project Time & Cost Estimation Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Mr. Akhouri Baibhav Prasad (Ex-

Week 8 Saturday 16 April 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Resilient Leaders hip and crisis management
Head Leadership Development
Week 9 Saturday 23 April 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Software Project Management Methodology (Agile- Scrum, Kanban, Scrunban, Discipline Agile Introduction) Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 10 Saturday 30 April 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Software Project Management Methodology (Agile- Scrum, Kanban, Scrunban, Discipline Agile Introduction) Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 11 Saturday 07 May 2022 9.00am-12.00noon BUFFER SESSION

Week 12 Saturday 14 May 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Developing Project Plans -II (CPM & PERT) Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 13 Saturday 21 May 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Demostration By Zoho projects , Working with M/s project, Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 14 Saturday 28 May 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Identifying Risks in Project Plan- A&D Case Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 15 Saturday 04 June 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Resource loading & levelling, Project Risk Management Window for incampus Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 16 Saturday 11 June 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Risk Management- JPL Case, Project Resilience Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 17 Saturday 18 June 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Crashing, Fast tracking Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 18 Saturday 25 June 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Critical Chain Project Management, Project Procurement Management Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 16 Saturday 02 July 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Contract Management Prof. Lionel Arahna

Week 17 Saturday 09 July 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Purchas ing chess board, Managing Vendors in projects- Boeing Dreamliner Video Analys is Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 18 Saturday 16 July 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project negotiation and conflict management - Cas e Prof Manoranjan Dhal

Week 19 Saturday 23 July 2022 9.00am-12.00noon BUFFER SESSION

International Project Management, Project Stakeholder management - Case Dhabhol Power Plant Case, TATA Nano
Week 20 Saturday 30 July 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati
Project at Singur
Week 21 Saturday 06 August 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Quality Management Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 22 Saturday 13 August 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Monitoring, Project Control Systems -CASE: Turner Cons truction case Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 23 Saturday 20 August 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Design Thinking Approach to Managing Project Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 24 Saturday 27 August 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Adaptive Project Manageemnt- Diamond Framework- Teradyne Cas e, , Introduction to Simulation Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 25 Saturday 03 September 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Digitization effects on Managing Projects, Managing Digital Transformation Projects- Case L&T, Project Audit and c Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 26 Saturday 10 September 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Delhi Metro, L&T T3 Video analys is- Case analys is, Simulation debriefing (OPTIONAL) Window for incampus
Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 27 Saturday 17 September 2022 9.00am-12.00noon BP oil spill Project & Chernobyl project, Project Presentation Gr 1-12 (Optional) Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 28 Saturday 24 September 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Presentation Gr 13-24 and Gr 1 (Optional) Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati

Week 29 Saturday 01 October 2022 9.00am-12.00noon Project Presentation Gr 25 till las t group (Optional) Prof. Rupesh Kumar Pati
https://www.ibef.org/industry/infrastructure-presentation
Construction-and-
Engineering-projects

https://www.consultancy.uk/news/24677/most-construction-and-engineering-projects-are-unsuccessful
https://financesonline.com/35-essential-project-management-statistics-analysis-of-trends-data-and-market-share/
https://financesonline.com/35-essential-project-management-statistics-analysis-of-trends-data-and-market-share/
https://financesonline.com/construction-
industry-statistics/