Project Management Important Topics ESE Prelims Paper-1

2017
• Types of production systems • Production planning and control (Loading, dispatching, etc)
• Qualities of Project Manager • Balancing of the assembly line (line efficiency and balanced delay)
• Optimization and optimum strategy
• Economic life of building and depreciation
• Problem solving (Fixation in problem solving)
• Concurrent Engineering
• Definition of project management
• Phases of project management

2018
• Human Factor Engineering, Ergonomic Design
• PERT & CPM, critical path
• Work breakdown structure
• Crashing of the project
• Inventory management
• ABC analysis
• Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
• Types of floats and slacks in network diagrams
• Just in Time concept
• Dimensions of Project Management (Scope, cost, time and quality)

2019
• Project vs Product management
• Product and production scheduling, inventory, and Sales
• Venture Management
• Product improvement cycle
• Post production handling functions, packaging, storage, and Delivery
• Break even sale point (BEP) analysis
• Project life cycle
• Inventory control and management
• Gantt Chart Method
• ABC analysis
• Economic Order Quantity
• Salvage value
• Annuity and discount rate
• Cost estimate in Projects
• Work Package
• Master Schedule, project schedule
• Resource constraints in the Projects

2020
• Bidding for procurement of projects contracts
• Horizontal and Vertical organizations
• Product liability
• Producibility of end product
• Human engineering approach
• Piece part production system
• Assessment of economic viability of the project
• Cost benefit ratio, Net Present Value, Return on investment
• Unity of control over project activities
• Line of authority in project
• Cost of equity capital to the company
• Types of risks involved in investment
• Investment and interest on it
• Non-convertible Debentures
• Venture capitalists, angel investors, strategic investors
• Strong and weak matrix of the projects

2021
• Organization Breakdown Structure
• Payback and target period of project
• Whistleblowing
• Pareto Diagram
• Quotations
• Groupthink

2022
• Top-down time and cost estimation
• Types of projects: normal, crash, business and research
• Production types • Product realization process

2023
• Hammock activities
• Risk management
• Buffers in projects
• Direct & Indirect costs in Project
• Chain Project management
• Mergers of companies

2024
• Cost benefit analysis
• Portfolio of a firm
• Cost and volume of the production
• Areas of corporate appraisal
• Demand forecasting