Project Management

Project Management Q1.What quality control methods prevalent in project management? Explain why TQM is important in project management, Q2.Explain the finalization of project implementation schedule. Q3.Discuss the problems in organizing human resource in a project. Q4.Define ‘organizing systems’. Discuss the various designs of systems. Q5.What are the factors, which control the cost of a project? Discuss briefly on each. How does time over-run affect the project cost?

Q6.Bring out the difference between CPM (Critical Path Method) and PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Techniques) and their suitability of use. Explain critical path for the above with suitable examples. Q7.What is resource leveling in relation to PERT/CPM? (b) List of activities for erecting a canteen in the factory is given below with other relevant details. Job A must precede all others while job E must follow all others. Apart from this, jobs can run concurrently also: a. Draw the network and identify critical path b.Crash the network fully to find out minimum duration.

Q8.If indirect costs are Rs. 300/day determine the time-cost trade off for the project. The time and cost estimates of different activities of a project and their precedence relationship are ' given below: Overhead costs amount to Rs. 1,000 per week. It is stipulated that the contractor will have to pay a penalty of Rs. 2,000 per week for completing the project beyond 16 weeks a.Show the critical path in the network Diagram. b.Find out the cost slope for every activity using normal and crash date for time and cost. c.Crash the project to 16 weeks, Estimate the total cost of crashing.