Project planning and optimization

Project planning and optimization

Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) — Fourth Year

Subject: Event Management (MGT 257)

Unit 2: Events as Project

Academic Year: 2083/84

Topic Objectives

After studying this topic, students should be able to:

• Explain the scope and key elements of project planning and optimization.
• Apply the relevant concepts to a defined organizational or venture situation using evidence and stated assumptions.

Curriculum Scope

• Project planning and optimization
• Project Evaluation and Review Technique
• Project crashing

Detailed Microsyllabus

1. Planning and optimization

   1. Define activities, dependencies and resource requirements.
   2. Build an event schedule and identify constraints.
   3. Compare alternatives against time and cost objectives.

2. PERT

   1. Explain optimistic, most likely and pessimistic duration estimates.
   2. Calculate expected durations under the stated method.
   3. Interpret critical paths and uncertainty without claiming guaranteed timing.

3. Crashing

   1. Identify activities eligible for duration reduction.
   2. Compare incremental costs and achievable time savings.
   3. Recalculate the critical path and justify selected changes.

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Curriculum reference: Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, revised four-year BBS curriculum, PDF pages 121–123.

Source note: The curriculum scope above is retained from the existing TU syllabus breakdown. The numbered study subtopics are editorial elaborations for teaching and study, rather than a separately issued TU syllabus. Unit or component allocations apply at their stated level; no separate topic hours or marks are assigned here. Examples involving current laws, rates, institutional products or Nepalese status must identify the relevant period and official materials; no changing numerical or legal requirements are invented here.