FORMAT FOR PREPARATION OF PROJECT REPORT

FOR

Project Management

MS496

Course Project:
Students are required to complete a team project during this course. The project is worth 20%. The
purpose of this project is to demonstrate understanding of project management tools, techniques and
concepts. What is desired is to create a plan of a project that includes 20(±3) activities with milestones
and relationships to allow the students to analyze the network. This class focuses on the management
part of a project not on the technical part.
The students have to demonstrate how to make a project business case, Project management Benefits
Management Plan, Project Charter, Project Management Plan, define scope of the project with WBS
and the critical path analysis, do the costing i.e. NPV, Payback period, Depreciation, Earned Value
Measurement, Communication Management, Risk Management and Stake Holder Management.

Deadline for the submission of the report is 02 December 2019

Handouts should be submitted to Turnitin in coloured format and only and only MS Word
format.

The printed form submitted should also be in coloured form.

1. ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS:

The sequence in which the project report material should be arranged and bound should be
as follows:

1. Cover Page & Title Page

2. Abstract
3. Table of Contents
4. List of Tables
5. List of Figures
6. List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature
7. Chapters
• Introduction
• Needs Assessment
• Business Case
• Benefits Management Plan
• Project Charter
• Project Management Plan
• Scope of the Project
 • WBS
• Critical Path Analysis
• Costing EVM, Depreciation, Payback Period and NPV
• Communication Management
• Risk Management
• Stake Holder Management
• Conclusion
8. Appendices

The table and figures shall be introduced in the appropriate places.

2. PAGE DIMENSION AND BINDING SPECIFICATIONS:

The dimension of the project report should be in A4 size. The project report should be
bound using flexible cover of the thick white art paper. The cover should be printed in
black letters and the text for printing should be identical.

3. PREPARATION FORMAT:

3.1 Cover Page & Title Page – A specimen copy of the Cover page & Title page of the project
report are given in Appendix 1.

3.2 Abstract – Abstract should be one page synopsis of the project report typed double line
spacing, Font Style Times New Roman and Font Size 14.

3.3 Table of Contents – The table of contents should list all material following it as well as any
material which precedes it. The title page and Bonafide Certificate will not find a place
among the items listed in the Table of Contents but the page numbers of which are in lower
case Roman letters. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this
head. A specimen copy of the Table of Contents of the project report is given in Appendix 2.

3.4 List of Tables – The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear above the
tables in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this
head.

3.5 List of Figures – The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear below the
figures in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this
head.

3.6 List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature – One and a half spacing should be
adopted or typing the matter under this head. Standard symbols, abbreviations etc. should be
used.

3.7 Chapters – The chapters may be broadly divided into 3 parts (i) Introductory chapter, (ii)
Chapters developing the main theme of the project work (iii) and Conclusion.
 The main text will be divided into several chapters and each chapter may be further divided
into several divisions and sub-divisions.

❖ Each chapter should be given an appropriate title.

❖ Tables and figures in a chapter should be placed in the immediate vicinity of the
reference where they are cited.

❖ Footnotes should be used sparingly. They should be typed single space and placed
directly underneath in the very same page, which refers to the material they annotate.

3.8 Appendices – Appendices are provided to give supplementary information, which is included
in the main text may serve as a distraction and cloud the central theme.

• Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g. Appendix 1, Appendix

2, etc.
• Appendices, Tables and References appearing in appendices should be numbered and
referred to at appropriate places just as in the case of chapters.

Appendices shall carry the title of the work reported and the same title shall be made
in the contents page also.
3.9 List of References –The listing of references should be typed 4 spaces below the heading
“REFERENCES” in alphabetical order in single spacing left – justified. The reference material
should be listed in the alphabetical order of the first author. The name of the author/authors
should be immediately followed by the year and other details.

A typical illustrative list given below relates to the citation example quoted above.

REFERENCES

1. Anumba, C.J., Egbu, C. and Carrillo, P. (2006) Knowledge Management in

Construction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
2. Arif, M., Egbu, C.O. and Toma, T.( 2010) ‘Knowledge Retention in Construction in
The UAE’ in Egbu, C. (Ed) Procs 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-8 September
2010, Leeds, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, pp. 887 –
896.
3. Dbours (2015) ‘The Answer is 42. On Data, Information and Knowledge’, Climate-
Eval Sharing Good Practices on Climate Change and Development Evaluation, 25
May. Available at: https://www.climate-eval.org/blog/answer-42-data-information-
and-knowledge (Accessed: 28 March 2016).
3.10 Table and figures - By the word Table, is meant tabulated numerical data in the body of the
project report as well as in the appendices. All other non-verbal materials used in the body of
the project work and appendices such as charts, graphs, maps, photographs and diagrams may
be designated as figures.

4. TYPING INSTRUCTIONS:

The impression on the typed copies should be black in colour.

One and a half spacing should be used for typing the general text. The general text shall be
typed in the Font style ‘Times New Roman’ and Font size 14.

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 APPENDIX 1
(A typical Specimen of Cover Page & Title Page)
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TITLE OF PROJECT REPORT

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A PROJECT REPORT
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Submitted by
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NAME OF THE CANDIDATE(S)

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in partial fulfillment for the course

of
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MS496 PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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SUBMITTED TO

SIR SALMAN KHATTAK

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NAME OF THE FACULTY

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GHULAM ISHAQ KHAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING

SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
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DECEMBER, 2019
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 APPENDIX 2
(A typical specimen of table of contents)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

ABSTRACT iii
LIST OF TABLE xvi
LIST OF FIGURES xviii
LIST OF SYMBOLS xxvii

1. INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 GENERAL 1
1.2 .... ......... 2
1.2.1 General 5
1.2.2 ........... 12
1.2.2.1 General 19
1.2.2.2 . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.2.2.3 . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.2.3 ............ 30
1.3 . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 45
1.4 .................. 58
2. LITERATURE REVIEW 69
2.1 GENERAL 75
2.2 .......... 99
2.2 …………….