The Power of Project Management

2 March 2026

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Price: R19000,00

Duration: 11 Weeks

Weekly: 4 - 8 hours

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Other Available Dates 19 January 2026 9 February 2026

The global economy has become more project-oriented to deal with the need to manage time and resources effectively and efficiently. According to the Project Management Job Growth and Talent Gap Report of the Project Management Institute, by 2027, employers will need 87.7 million individuals working in project management roles.

The demand for project management (PM) skills in Africa and South Africa has also increased significantly across a wide variety of industries. Africa’s market of middle-class consumers is expected to soar to 1.1 billion by 2060, leading to increasing services and development projects. Due to this, the need for project management has increased in service industries, such as information technology, financial services, and telecommunication.

The demand for project management skills in South Africa has also increased considerably across almost every sector. The skills gap must be filled by confident, human-centred project managers who can balance a range of considerations to achieve project goals.

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Learning Outcomes:

Understand the project management knowledge areas, process groups and the triple constraint.
Discuss the importance of project governance, governance components, core project governance principles and relevant governance models and frameworks used in the project management life cycle.
Explain how to initiate a project in your own division/department or organisation.
Compile a project plan for managing a basic project in your own division or department..

Discuss the actions that need to be followed for successfully executing a project.
Explain the activities to effectively monitor and control a project.
Understand how to gain formal acceptance and close out a project successfully.
Describe the main features of Agile Project Management and how it is implemented.

Module Content:

Module 1: Introduction to Project Management
Module 2: Initiating a Project
Module 3: Risk Management
Module 4: Planning a Project: Project Scoping
Module 5: Project Scheduling
Module 6: Cost Management
Module 7: Monitoring and Controlling a Project
Module 8: Closing a Project
Module 9: Project Leadership
Module 10: Introduction to Agile- and Hybrid Project Management Approaches