This foundation course covers key terminology, project management context, and the project management framework. This framework includes the project management knowledge areas and the project process groups.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Apply key project management terms.
• Analyze the environment in which projects operate.
• Describe a generalized view of how the various project management processes commonly interact.
• Identify project integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management process inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs.
• Analyze stakeholder needs and expectations.
• Interpret the role of the project manager.
• Initiate a project by creating a project charter and analyzing stakeholder needs.
• Apply citation and documentation carefully to all assignments.

CHAPTER I - GENERAL INTRODUCTION                                     

1. 1. Meaning and definition of project and project management
   2. Portfolios, Programs and projects relationship
   3. Features of a project
   4. Projects and Plans
   5. Project management processes
   6. Project management knowledge areas

CHAPTER II - PROJECT CYCLE                                                        

1. 1. Meaning and Definition of Project Cycle
   2. Role of the project manager
   3. Enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets
   4. World Bank Project Cycle
   5. UNIDO Project Cycle

CHAPTER III - PROJECT IDENTIFICATION                                

1. 1. Project Idea – meaning
   2. Sources of Project Ideas
      1. Macro sources
      2. Micro sources
   3. Project Proposal

CHAPTER IV - PROJECT PREPARATION                                                                                   

1. 1. Markets and Demand Analysis
   2. Raw Materials and Supplies Study
   3. Location, Site and Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
   4. Production Program and Plant Capacity
   5. Technology Selection
   6. Organizational and Human Resource
   7. Financial and Economic Analysis
      1. Initial investment cost
      2. Production cost
      3. Marketing cost
      4. Projection of cash flow
      5. Financial evaluation
         1. Net present value (NPV)
         2. Internal rate of return (IRR)
         3. Benefit cost ratio (BCR)
         4. Payback period (PBP)
         5. Accounting rate of return (ARR)
         6. Break – even analysis (BEA)

CHAPTER V - PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING AND EVLAUATION  

1. 1. Organization
      1. Line and Staff Organization
      2. Divisional Organization
      3. Matrix Organization
   2. Project Planning
   3. Project Control
   4. Human Aspects of Project Management
   5. Pre – requisites for Successful Project Implementation

CHAPTER VI - SOCIAL COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS (SCBA)                

1. 1. Rationale for SCBA
   2. UNIDO Approach
   3. Net Benefit in Terms of Economic Prices
   4. Savings Impact

CHAPTER VII - PROJECT FINANCING                                          

1. 1. Source of Project Finance
      1. Equity
      2. Loan financing
      3. Leasing
   2. Cost of Capital
   3. Public Policy and Regulations on Financing

Financing Institutions

• Prasanna Chandra, Projects – Planning Analysis, Financing, Implementation, and Review
• UNIDO, A Manual for the Preparations of Industrial Feasibility Studies 
• UNIDO, A Guide to Practical Project Appraisal
• Harold Kerzner, Project Management
• Rory Burke, Project Management
• Trevor Tong, Planning Projects 
• Construction Scheduling with Primavera Project Planner by Leslie Feignbaum Publisher: Prentice Hall.
• Managing with Microsoft Project by Lisa A. Bucki, Gary Chefetz Publisher:Premier Press.
• Microsoft Project Bible by Elaine Marmel Publisher: Wiley Publishing, Inc.
• Microsoft Project for Dummies by Nancy Stevenson Publisher: Hungry Minds,Inc