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Programme Starts
22nd March, 2025

Programme Fees
₹1,33,000 + GST

Duration
06 Months

Programme Overview

In today's digital age and extremely competitive market, project management experts face challenges in completing projects while keeping in mind time, budget, and quality. A project management expert must seize the chance, adopt the changes, and put them into practise where required if they are to compete and possibly win. In addition, it is essential to commence the job successfully, manage it carefully, and complete it entirely regardless of its size.

The Certificate Programme in Project Management at IIM Nagpur equips professionals with the information, skills, and discipline required to plan, organise, and manage projects in any industry. This comprehensive course content will elevate the bar for project management professionals, while providing students with the tools they need to deal with change.

Eligibility

Minimum 1 year of work experience with Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree (10+2+3/10+2+4) or 2 Years Master’s Degree from a recognized university in any discipline.

Programme Highlights

Contextually designed 6-month programme for working executives

Campus immersion module of 2 days

Focus on real business use cases

Peer-learning and networking opportunities

Programme Content

Topic 1: Introduction to Project Management

  • Concepts of Projects and Strategic Handling of Uncertainties and Stakeholder Management

Topic 2: Project Life Cycle

  • Setting up, Execution, and Close-out of Projects

Topic 3: Organisational Strategy

  • Introduction to organisations, strategy, and alignment of strategy with various practices

Topic 4: Project-based Organisations

  • Different forms of organisations and project-based organisations

Topic 5: Financial Management for Projects

  • Time value, NPV, IRR, cash flow, Multi Criteria Decision model for project selection, and financing of projects

Topic 6: Contracts and Legal Aspects of Projects

  • Different clauses in contracts and legal framework and SMART contracting

Topic 7: Project-specific Human Resources Aspects

  • HR aspects of setting up new team and culture to deliver projects

Topic 8: Project Planning

  • WBS, Network analysis, PERT/CPM, critical path, levelling, critical chain, project buffer, simulation of project plans, project risk management

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Topic 9: Project Management Tools

  • Introduction to MS Projects Tool

Topic 10: Managing Project Materials

  • Ensuring supply chain for project materials, their logistics, and accounting

Topic 11: Project Health Monitoring

  • Effective MIS to facilitate project monitoring, reforecasting, and re-baselining projects – time and cost

Topic 12: Portfolio Analysis

  • Project portfolio management and assortment of projects

Topic 13: Team Management

  • Team dynamics and team performance

Topic 14: Change Management

  • Change management in project organisations

Topic 15: Managing Project Data and Documentation

  • Projects entail significant amount of data generation and documentation

Topic 16: Project Management in Multi- cultural Environment

  • Impact of culture and managing projects in cross cultural settings

Topic 17: Project Communication

  • Communication and negotiation in project management

Topic 18: Contemporary Project Management Practices

  • Agile, SCRUM, PRINCE, PRiSM project management, JIRA, and Asana

Topic 19: On Campus Session

  • Meet the Program Leadership Team, Simulation Exercise and Wrap-up

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*Courses are subject to change.

PROGRAMME CERTIFICATION
  • Participants who successfully meet the evaluation criteria and satisfy the requisite attendance criteria, will be awarded a ‘Certificate of Completion’.
  • Successful participants will also be accorded ‘IIM Nagpur Alumni’ status.

Note: *All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of IIM Nagpur.

Class Schedule

Saturdays
Session:1 – 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM
Session:2 – 08:15 PM to 09:45 PM

Past Participant Profiles

Top Industries

  • Construction
  • Information Technology
  • Civil Engineering
  • Banking/Mortgage
  • E-Learning
  • Electrical Manufacturing
  • Computer Software/Engineering
  • Automotive
  • Business Supplies/Equipment

Top Job Profiles

  • Assit. Manager / Sr. Manager/ Project manager / Program / Cons.
  • Quality Engineering Specialist
  • Planning Engineer- PMG
  • Construction Engineer
  • Assistant Engineer( C&M)
  • Document controller cum assistant project planner
  • Engineering Program Management
  • Senior Data Informatics Analyst
  • Functional Consultant
  • Technical Architect

Programme Director

Prof. Alok Kumar Singh

Prof. A.K.Singh holds a FPM degree (Fellow in Management) in Operations management and quantitative techniques area from Indian Institute of Management, Indore. He is a Mechanical Engineer from College of Technology, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar. He has worked with Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), for 8.5 years and has around 8 years of academic experience. Prof Singh was actively involved in academic, MDP’s and administrative activities. He has published papers in reputed journals and has attended several conferences in India and abroad. His teaching and research interest span across the domain of Operations Management, Project Management, Supply chain management and Quantitative Techniques.

Prof. Neelkanth Dhone

Dr.Neelkanth Dhone received his doctorate from premium B-school, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE–Mumbai). He has done M.B.A.(Production Management & Marketing) and B.E (Mechanical) from Savitribai Phule Pune University (Formerly Pune Univesity). He has qualified for UGC-NET 2011(management). He has also done many of N.P.T.E.L.'s M.O.O.C- F.D.P. programs. His teaching interests include Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Lean Management, and Industry 4.0. His research work is aligned toward understanding the impact of emerging technologies on supply chain performance & authored for many publications like Taylor &Francis, Inderscience.

Admission Criteria

The selection will be based on candidate’s profile evaluation, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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