● Project management –
● Project, project vs operations, project performance dimensions, project planning,
● Project management- challenges, components, steps, project life cycle,
● General management vs project management, qualities of project manager.
● System Development Cycle-
● SDLC meaning, phases, system analyst, authorities, responsibilities, accountabilities of system analyst.
● SDLC models- Waterfall, Iterative, Prototyping, Spiral and Agile model.
● Project Feasibility Study-
● market analysis, technical analysis, financial analysis, economic analysis, managerial and organizational analysis,
● energy management and ecological analysis

● Project Appraisal -Capital Budgeting Methods:
● Payback period method, Accounting Rate of return , Net present value method,
● Profitability Index , Internal Rate of return method.
● Managing risk in Projects-
● Project risk management, Benefits of project risk management,
● Project risk management steps- Risk Management Planning, Identify Risk Events,
● Qualitative Risk Analysis, Quantitative Risk Analysis,
● Risk Response, Risk Monitoring & Control

● Decision Making-
● Decisions under Uncertainty,
● Decisions under Risk,
● Techniques of Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
● Social Cost Benefit Analysis-
● Social Costs, Social Benefits,
● steps in Social cost Benefit Analysis,
● Approaches to SCBA- UNIDO approach, Little-Mirrlees approach, Indian Approach,

● Project Finance :
● Direct Financial Assistance, Bridge Loans,
● Specific Assistance Scheme of Financial Institutions,
● Network Analysis (PERT and CPM)-
● Use of PERT in Project management, Critical Path method,
● Terminology used in network analysis, comparison between PERT and CPM,
● Construction of network diagram, Determination of Critical Path,
● Application of PERT in Project management

● Project Implementation and Control:
● Project implementation, Pre-requisites for successful implementation,
● Work breakdown structure (WBS)
● Project management System:
● Introduction, Characteristics of a system, Essentials, Levels of PMIS,
● Information and Technology requirements
● Project Audit :
● Project Audit Ex-post Project Evaluation,
● Human aspect of project Management ,
● Environment Appraisal of project (a brief Review).