Advanced Project Management: Driving Organisational Success

Online short course

Elevate your skills to initiate, plan, and execute complex projects across a range of industries.

12 weeks, excluding orientation

10-12 hours per week, entirely online

Weekly modules, flexible learning

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with:

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The skills and confidence to propose and initiate a project that requires complex strategy and planning.

2

The opportunity to develop a project charter for a project you’re working on, and gain hands-on experience assessing and defining scope.

3

The ability to apply Earned Value Management (EVM), Project Quality Management, and Project Scope Management in complex projects.

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An industry-recognised certificate of completion, issued by Africa’s leading university.

GetSmarter is approved by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) as an Authorized Training Partner (ATP), a partnership that enables you to join the world’s largest project management network. This Advanced Project Management online short course will count for 153.25 PDUs in total, and the division of hours is as follows: Technical – 81.50, Leadership – 30.75, Strategic – 41.00.

PMI is responsible for setting project management standards and providing certification. By taking this course, you’ll gain PMI-endorsed skills that are globally recognised. You can also use these learning hours towards furthering your professional project management development. See PMI.org for more information.

Course curriculum

Module 1

Learn the importance of strategically aligning project management to the overarching goal of an organisation.

Module 2

Understand the role and the importance of the project manager in relation to the success of the project.

Module 3

Learn more about the standardisation of practices and tools in project management.

Module 4

Explore the importance of Project Integration Management and Project Stakeholder Management in initiating a project.

Module 5

Understand project scope management and begin the planning phase of your project.

Course convenor

Maureen Tanner

Head of Department, Information Systems, UCT

Tanner’s research agenda explores software development (SD) from various perspectives, including project management, software engineering, team collaboration and management, the SD context, end-user perspectives, the impact of software solutions on people, as well as how to disseminate SD-related knowledge. Her research contributions are highly relevant to both practitioners and academia. Through in-depth case studies, Tanner employs the latest SD techniques to deliver quality software that makes a valuable impact on business and society.

Course requirements

This course is relevant to professionals who have experience in project management.

In order to ensure that this course is suitable for you, you’ll be required to submit a suitable project to your Head Tutor for approval once the course goes live. This approved project will be used as a building block for your ongoing project plan. It’ll also ensure that at the end of this 12-week online short course you’ll have a completed plan for a real-world project that can be practically applied in your current role.

Please consider the following recommendations surrounding the project you select to use during this course.

If you would prefer to do a foundational course in project management, please contact us to speak to an Enrolment Advisor.

The project should be one that you have a working knowledge of, where you fulfilled a role on the project, i.e., as project manager, project sponsor, or project team member.

The project should either have already started, and be well underway, or should be a project completed within the last 10 years.

The project should ideally be of medium to large scale in relation to its rand value, the number of project stakeholders, and the project duration.

An online education that sets you apart

This UCT online short course is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter. Join a growing community of global professionals, and benefit from the opportunity to:

Gain verifiable and relevant competencies and earn invaluable recognition from an international selection of universities and institutions, entirely online and in your own time.

Enjoy a personalised, people-mediated online learning experience created to make you feel supported at every step.

Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.

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