1. MS - 52
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
FIRST SEMESTER
2011
MS-52: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068

2. ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 52
Course Title : Project Management
Assignment Code : MS-52/SEM - I /2011
Coverage : All Blocks
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Q1. What are the phases of a Project Development Cycle? Give the salient tasks under each phase.
Q2. What are the traditional methods of financial evaluation of the projects? Give a comparative
analysis of these methods.
Q3. Discuss the usefulness of matrix organization in project management. Also explain the recent
trend in organization design.
Q4. Elaborate the concept of Earned Value of the Budget in PERT/COST System.
Q5. Explain the concept of CYBERNETICS applied to project management.
Q6. The following information is given for a project
Activity : A B C D E F G
Immediate Predecessor : - A A C B,D D E,F
Time (Weeks) : 6 3 7 2 4 3 7
a) Draw the network
b) Identify Critical Path
c) Calculate the project completion time
d) Calculate the Float of each activity