Dr S. & S. S.

GHANDHY GOVERNMENT
ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SURAT

A Laboratory Manual for

Project Management
(3171506)

B. E. Mechanical Semester- VII

Directorate of Technical Education, Gandhinagar,

Gujarat
 Dr S. & S. S. GHANDHY
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING
COLLEGE, SURAT

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the student of 7th semester Mechanical Engineering
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completed the Practical/Tutorial work in “Project
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 Dr S. & S. S. GHANDHY GOVERNMENT
ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SURAT

Department of Mechanical Engineering

B.E. Semester – VII
Project Management (3171506)

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Subject Code: 3171506
Semester –VII
Subject Name: Project Management

Reference Books:
1. Project Management by Samuel J. Mantel, Jr. Jack R. Meredith, Scott M. Shafer, Margaret M. Sutton
with M. R. Gopalan (WILEY-INDIA)
2. Project Management and Appraisal by Sitangshu Khatua (Oxford)

Course Outcomes: Students will be able to:

Sr. No. CO statement Marks % weightage

CO-1 Demonstrate the fundamentals of project management its 25
organization.
CO-2 Utilize the concepts of project organizing, project planning 25
and it’s budgeting.
CO-3 Analyze the project network and resource allocation in 20
projects.
CO-4 Illustrate the project monitoring and control. 20
CO-5 Choose evaluating and terminating the Project. 10

List of Experiments:
The following are Practical/Experiments list:
1. Study and Analysis of different Projects and Management of Projects (case study type) (CO1)
2. Case study on Project Planning (Example: The planning process- Nuts and Bolts) (CO1)
3. Exercise Problems on Budgeting the Project (CO2)
4. Exercise Problems on CPM, Project duration and float calculation. (CO3)
5. Exercise Problems on PERT Networks and calculation of Project duration, Project completion
probability and simulation of PERT. (CO3)
6. Exercise on Expediting a Project, Resource Loading, Resource Leveling (CO4)
7. Exercise Problems on Crashing the Project network (CO4)
8. Exercise Problems Project Auditing (CO5)
Experiment No-1

Study and Analysis of different Projects and Management of Projects (case study type) (CO1)

➢ Write and Analysis of any selected project as mentioned below:

• Event project
• To routine maintenance of machine tools
• Construction project
• Controlling the workloads of technical specialists- any firm
• All non-routine, one - time operations be managed as projects In Hospital
• R & D Project
• Quality Improvement Project
• New Plant installations Project
• Power Plant Project

➢ Project will be including:

o Scope
o Planning
o Budget
o Scheduling

Assignment Questions:

1. Explain 3 Goals of Project.

2. What is project? Differentiate between Project Management and General management.
3. What are steps involved in a project portfolio process?
4. Explain project manager selection criteria?
5. Give three examples of project found in your city.
6. Explain win-win negotiation and win-lose negotiation w.r.t project management.
7. Give three examples of projects found in your city, region, or country. Justify your
answer using the characteristics of a project.
8. Contrast win-lose negotiation with win-win negotiation and explain why the latter is so
important in project management.
9. Discuss the steps involved in the “Project Portfolio Process”.
10. Enlist the characteristics of effective team members in a project.
11. Brief about the two types of project life cycles.
12. Use the characteristics of a project to differentiate it from a nonproject.
13. Explain the life cycle of project.
14. What is an approach of project formulations.
15. What is simulation? Explain in detail.
16. Write advantages of project formulation.
17. Explain steps of simulation process. Write advantages and disadvantages of it.
18. Explain how the type of project life cycle ("S"-type or "J"-type) might affect allocation of
scarce resources to a project.
19. Explain the three objectives of a project.
20. As a PM, you are given an important task to choose between three locations (A, B, C)
for setting up a factory. The relative weights for each criterion are shown in the following
table. A score of 1 represents unfavorable, 2 satisfactory, and 3 favorable. Use a weighted
scoring model and make the selection

21. consider the following given data and based on that find out critical path for the given
project:
Activity 1-2 1-3 2-4 3-4 3-5 2-6 4-6 5-6

Time(days) 6 9 3 4 8 12 7 1
Experiment No-2

Case study on Project Planning (Example: The planning process- Nuts and Bolts) (CO2)

➢ Introduction of Planning
➢ Write the Project Planning of case study of project as mention below:
• Event project
• Construction project
• Etc.…
➢ Project Planning includes,
o Multiple elements of planning –Overview, objectives, General approach,
Contractual aspects, Schedules, Resource requirements, etc.…
o Planning-
▪ With launch meeting
▪ Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Modified WBS
approach
▪ Responsible - Accountable - Consult -Informed Matrix ( RAC
Matrix ), and Mind Mapping

Assignment Questions:

1. What are the roles and responsibility of project manager? Explain in details.
2. Explain the following ways of organizing projects as a part of the parent organization:
pure project organization, functional project organization, matrix project organization.
3. What is meant by “micromanagement”? Why is it undesirable?
4. Projects A and B are both nearing completion. You are managing a super important
project C that requires an immediate input of a resource being used by both projects A
and B, but is otherwise unavailable. Project A has a Type ‘S’ life cycle. Project B’s life
cycle is Type ‘J’. From which do you borrow the resource? Why?
5. Write short note on project team.
6. Discuss the various responsibilities of the PM to the project:
7. Provide brief idea of project selection methods.
8. Explain any 3 project manager selection criteria.
9. Explain the roles of the project team.
10. Explain about functional organizational structure.
11. Write a short note on Project management as a Profession.
Experiment No-3

Exercise Problems on Budgeting the Project (CO2)

• Problem no-13,14,15,16,17,18 (Page no-145)

Assignment Questions:

1. Discuss about budget uncertainty.

2. What do you mean by cost estimating? Explain with example.
3. What is budgeting? Explain methods of budgeting.
4. Some of the planning process steps for a new product design are given below. Arrange
these in their sequence of execution.
• Design a product that will have the requisite capabilities.
• Describe what it is you wish to develop, including its basic performance
characteristics, and decide if getting such a deliverable is worthwhile.
• Develop and evaluate the concept of the project.
• Test the prototype to see if it does have the desired capabilities.
• Create such a system (product or service), which is to say, build a prototype
deliverable.
• Carefully identify and spell out the actual capabilities that the project’s deliverable
must have to be successful.
5. Provide steps, you will include in Project Charter, to control “scope creep”.
6. Categorize the contents of a project plan necessary for large non-routine projects.
Discuss it in brief.
7. What are some of the benefits of setting up a project plan for routine, frequent projects?
8. Develop a WBS (Gozinto tree) with at least three levels for a project you are personally
familiar with. (State clearly the title of your project).
9. Explain work breakdown structure of project
10. Explain the planning process in project execution.
11. Show the format of a WBS as an output of Microsoft Project software.
12. Explain the purpose of the RACI matrix.
13. Write a short note on Project planning using Mind mapping. Use following points:
purpose, methodology, benefit.
14. Differentiate between the Project Plan, and the Work Breakdown Structure.
15. Preparation of five subjects in a semester of an engineering program can be taken as a
project. Develop a WBS (Gozinto tree) with at least three levels for this project. (State
clearly the title of your project)
16. Write planning process- Nuts and Bolts.
17. Explain the work breakdown structure.
18. Give an overview of planning process.
19. What is mean by break down structure? detail with examples.
20. Explain top-down approach for budgeting.
21. Explain any three elements of project planning.
22. Write down the characteristics of work breakdown structure.
23. Explain about RACI matrix in detail.
Experiment No-4

Exercise Problems on CPM, Project duration and float calculation. (CO3)

1) The time estimates and precedence relationship of different activities constituting a small
construction project is given in following table.
i. Draw the project network.
ii. Determine project completion time.
iii. What is critical path?

2) Listed in the table are the activities and sequencing necessary for a maintenance job on the
heat exchangers in a refinery. Draw a network diagram for the project.

3) The details of activity and duration are shown below. Find (i) Draw a network (ii) Find the
critical path (iii) Project duration
Assignment Questions:

1. Differentiate between CPM and PERT

2. Contrast the disadvantages of top-down budgeting and bottom-up budgeting
3. What do you mean by severity, likelihood, and detectability with regard to Failure Mode
and Effect Analysis?
4. Media One Consultants is a small consulting firm that specializes in developing the
electronic media that accompany major textbooks. A typical project requires the
development of an electronic test bank, PowerPoint lecture slides, and a website to
support the textbook. A team consisting of three of the firm’s consultants just completed
the content for the first of eighteen chapters of an operations management textbook for a
major college textbook publisher. In total, it took the team 21 hours to complete this
content. The consultants are each billed out at Rs. 65/hour plus 20 percent to cover
overhead. Past experience indicates that projects of this type follow a 78 percent learning
curve. Estimate the budget and completion time for this project.
5. What are different budgeting methods?
6. Explain cost estimation in project. How one can improve it?
7. Explain budget uncertainties and risks associated with it.
8. What is expected value of perfect information (EVPI)?
9. Write short note on FMEA.
10. Explain quantitative risk analysis.
11. What is Monte Carlo Simulation?
12. Distinguish among highly probable risks, extremely serious risks, and highly vulnerable
areas in risk identification.
13. Explain the causes for change in budget estimates previously done. How are these
changes handled?
14. What do you understand by Risk Priority Number (RPN) with regard to Failure Mode
and Effect Analysis?
15. Write a note on: Methods of budgeting.
16. What do you mean by cost estimating? Explain with example.
17. Discuss about budget uncertainty.
18. What is budgeting? Explain methods of budgeting.
19. Which are the Objective and Advantages of Budgeting.
20. Which are the Different method to improve cost Estimates.
21. Write steps to calculate Expected opportunity loss.
22. Explain about the cost estimating.
Experiment No-5

Exercise Problems on PERT Networks and calculation of Project duration, Project completion
probability and simulation of PERT. (CO3)

1) A small project is composed of 7 activities whose time estimates are listed in the table
below. Activities are identified by their beginning and ending node numbers.
i. Draw the project network.
ii. Find the expected duration and variance for each activity.
iii. What Is the expected project length and standard deviation?
iv. What is the probability that the project twill be completed 3 weeks later than
the expected time?

2) Provide brief idea of the following ‘risk management’ areas: Risk identification, risk
analysis, and response to risk
3) Provide meaning of the following rules for assigning preference to some activities over
others when allocating scarce resources: as soon as possible, as late as possible, shortest
task duration first.
4) The activities A to H of a new project having relationships and timings shown in table
below.
i. Draw the network
ii. Find the critical path and expected time of completion of the project.
iii. What will be the standard deviation of the project completion duration?
iv. What will be the probability of completing the project in expected time
of completion?
 5) Given the information in the following table:

(i) Construct the network diagram (activity on node), (ii) Find each activity’s ES, EF,
LS, LF, (iii) Which path is the critical path? How long will it take to complete the
project?

Assignment Questions:
1. What is AON and AOA diagrams?
2. Explain with example Fulkerson's rule.
3. Explain the Gantt Chart.
4. What is project uncertainty? Explain in detail with risk management.
5. Illustrate with examples the essential difference between PERT and CPM.
6. Explain about the distribution curve for PERT.
7. Explain the terms (1) Activity (2) Event (3) Merged event.
8. Explain about Gantt process charts with its limitations.
9. The duration for each activity and their immediate predecessors are shown below.
Activity A B C D E F

Predecessor - - - A, B B B, C

Duration 5 3 7 8 4 5

(days)

Draw the Network and Find the critical path.

10. (i) Construct the network diagram (activity on arrow), (ii) show each activity's ES, EF, LS,
LF in the diagram, (iii) Which path is the critical path? How long will it take to complete the
project?

Activity Activities Node Duration

A 1-2 2 days

B 1-3 7

C 1-4 8

D 2-5 3

E 3-5 6

F 3-6 1

G 3-7 4

H 4-6 6

I 5-7 2

J 6-8 5

K 7-8 6
Experiment No-6

Exercise on Expediting a Project, Resource Loading, Resource Leveling.(CO4)

• Explain the difference between a project that has a fixed delivery day and one that has a
fixed limit on resource usage. Why might a PM be interested in this difference?
• Explain why project - oriented firms require excess resource capacity.
• List and describe the three most common criteria by which to evaluate different resource
allocation priority rules.
• Problems-20,21,22,23 (Page no-231)

Assignment Questions:

1. Explain in brief about resource leveling and resource loading.

2. Explain the problems faced in allocating the resources.
3. What is resource loading? Explain about resource loading with factors affecting it.
4. What is meant by Goldratt’s critical chain. How does it work?
5. Given the following project:

Partial crashing is allowed for activity ‘d’ and not allowed for ‘e’. Draw the network (activity on
arrow) and find the critical path, time, and cost for an all-normal level of project activity.
Suppose the project must be crashed by 2 days. Assess the options you have and give its
description.

6. What are factors affecting resource loading?

7. Provide meaning of the following rules for assigning preference to some
activities over others when allocating scarce resources: minimum slack
first, most critical followers, most successors.
8. Explain any one in brief: Resource loading, Resource leveling.
9. What is meant by the term "student syndrome"?
10. Explain about resource leveling.
11. What is resource loading? Explain in brief about resource loading with factors affecting
it.
 12. What is mean by updating and scheduling of resources? Explain.
13. Which are the different problems faced in allocating the resources.
14. Describe with details Goldratt's critical chain.
15. Explain the terms (1) Project buffer (2) Feeding buffer (3) Recourse buffer
16. Explain any four problems for Resource allocations.
17. Given the following project:

Activity Duration, Days Cost, Rs.

(Normal, (Normal, Crash)

Crash)

1-2 6,4 600,1000

2-3 4,2 600,1400

2-4 5,3 500,1500

2-5 3,1 450,650

3-4 6,4 900,2000

4-6 8,4 800,3000

5-6 4,2 400,1000

6-7 3,2 450,800

The contract includes a penalty clause of Rs. 200 per day in excess of 19 days. The overhead cost
is Rs. 400 per day. Would the project be benefited in terms of total cost, if it is crashed by 1 day?
If yes, calculate the benefit.
Experiment No-7

Exercise Problems on Crashing the Project network (CO4)

a. Explain the term crashing of network. Why it is required

b. The details of activity in project management are given below.

Find (i)Critical path &Project duration(ii)Optimum project cost with considering indirect
cost is 100Rs.perday

c. Following table shows jobs, normal and crash time, normal and crash cost of a project.
Indirect cost for the project is 300 Rs/day.
a. Draw the network and find the critical path.
b. What is normal duration and cost of project.
c. Find optimal cost and duration.

Assignment Questions:

1. What do mean by chrasing w.r.t to CPM

2. Using earned value analysis, explain how the total cost of a partially completed project
can be estimated.
3. Justify the statement: “The monitoring system is the direct connection between project
planning and control.”
4. Explain different types of data collection?
5. Explain the earned value analysis using a diagram.
6. Which different formats are used to collect data through the monitoring system?
7. Explain various ways of data collections along with advantages of data reporting.
8. Explain about scope creep with its main causes.
9. Explain Plan-Monitor-Control cycle.
10. What do you mean by project control? Explain mechanisms of project control system
with its applications.
11. What are the different types of project control?
12. Explain earned value chart along with diagrams.
13. Define Scope Creep and write any two causes of scop creep.
14. Write advantages of data reporting.
Experiment No-8

To Study Auditing of a Project (CO5)

• Introduction of Auditing
• Audit Process
• Comparison of Financial Audits with Project Audits
• Audit report on specific project.

Assignment Questions:

1. Define project evaluation, Explain types of project evaluation.

2. Explain project termination process in details.
3. Explain the meaning of the following ways of terminating a project: extinction, addition,
integration, and starvation.
4. What is auditing of project?
5. Explain evaluation of project.
6. Given a set of projects to terminate, how would you decide which projects should be
continued and which should be dropped?
7. Brief about the information required in a project audit report.
8. Explain the objectives of the project audit.
9. Explain project termination process in detail.
10. What are the different steps involved in project auditing?
11. Explain the objective of project Audit.
12. Differentiate between the Pre-project evaluation and Post project evaluation.
13. Explain the terms (1) General Audit (2) Detailed audit (3) Technical audit.