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Project Management

Notes PDRI: The Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) for Building Projects is a powerful and simple
tool that helps meet this need by offering a method to measure project scope definition for
completeness.
Project Manager: A project manager is a professional in the field of project management. Project
managers can have the responsibility of the planning, execution and closing of any project,
typically relating to construction industry, architecture, Aerospace and Defence, computer
networking, telecommunications or software development.

Standard Idea-generation Techniques: They concentrate on combining or adapting existing
ideas.

6.7 Review Questions

1. Discuss about generation and screening of project Ideas.
2. What are the procedures for idea generation?
3. Explain about “Monitoring the Environment”.
4. What do you know about Corporate Appraisal?
5. Discuss about Project Rating Index.

6. Discuss about the benefits of PDRI.
7. Why should we use PDRI?
8. Explain about the strengths and Weakness of Corporate Appraisal.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Essential 2. Corporate Appraisal

3. Marketing Strategy 4. Managers
5. Digging 6. PDRI
7. Project Planning 8. NASA
9. Evaluation 10. Project Team

6.8 Further Readings

Books Clements/Gido, Effective Project Management, Thomson
Clifford F. Gray and Erik W. Larson, Project Management, Tata McGraw Hill
Dennis Lock, Project Management, Ninth Edition, Gower
K. Nagarajan, Project Management, Third Edition, New Age International
P.C.K. Rao, Project Management and Control, Sultan Chand & Sons

Prasanna Chandra, Projects – Planning, Selection, Financing, Implementation, and
Review, Sixth Edition, Tata McGraw Hill
Vasant Desai, Project Management, Second Revised Edition, Himalaya Publishing
House

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