Practical Project Management & Leadership

The 2 day Practical Project Management & Leadership Programme has been presented successfully to more than 300 delegates, across South Africa and Africa in general..

Why should you attend?

Globally, business-organizations operate in a geographically dispersed, but connected, supply chain environment. These businesses, to be competitive, need to innovate and transform continuously.

And it is for this reason that project management has become an essential business skill.

Given this context project management is not only the preserve of the professional engineer, architect or building contractor. Project management skills are used by business professionals across the board to get tasks and projects completed effectively and efficiently. ]

The 2 day Practical Project Management & Leadership Programme is ideally geared to assist the “non-project manager” with the essential skills to plan, lead and implement projects in their organizations.

This course has been presented successfully to more than 300 delegates, across South Africa and Africa in general.

What Will You Learn?

At the end of the course you will:

1. Have a sound understanding of the relevance of project management in modern organizations, the definition and basic project management hierarchy;
2. Have an awareness of basic project management methods and approaches (example, PMBOK; Prince II; Agile);
3. Gain hands on experience of how to develop a project mandate (charter), scoping, sequencing (including critical path) scheduling, and implementation and close out;
4. Gain an understanding of short cycle project management methods (notably SCRUM within the context of Agile) and how it can be integrated with classical project management as per the PMBOK.

Who Should Attend?

1. Anyone wishing to acquire project management skills;
2. Managers, supervisors and administrators or even PA’s and team members involved in projects or for responsible action plans, task teams or change programmes.

What topics will we cover?

1. Project management defined;
2. The project cycle;
3. Scoping and planning:
4. The Charter & Work Breakdown Structure;
5. Sequencing (the network diagram and critical path);
6. Scheduling (the Gant, resource loading and leveling);
7. Sequencing and scheduling with MS Project.
8. Implementation:
9. Making progress visible;
10. Change control;
11. Leadership & teamwork.
12. Project close out;
13. Introduction to Agile & Scrum:
14. Basic philosophy;
15. The process;
16. Scrum techniques (user stories, sprints, KANBAN, stand-ups and retrospectives.

What will you get?

1. A bounded training manual with slides used during the program'
2. A memory stick with all slides and additional hand-outs, practical work and exercises;
3. Soft copies of all Video’s used during the programme; and
4. An attendance certificate at completion of the programme, signed by the presenter.

When and where?

For Practical Project Management & Leadership Programme , our calendar is as follows:

1. 4 & 5 February 2019
2. 4 & 5 March 2019
3. 28 & 29 March 2019
4. 3 & 3 May 2019

Venues will be confirmed, based on number pf participants, but will be of excellent quality, while coffee & tea as well as lunches will be included.

Your investment?

Full programme investment is R 1850 per delegate, with a 5% discount if paid in full 2 weeks prior to commencement of the programme or through the use of our ticketing system - see payment details. (T's& C's Apply). 

Note that we also present in house programmes which has a significant cost saving (T's & C's Apply)

Contact [email protected] for banking details or

inquiries: 27 81 529 4337.