Project Management training courses
Deliver on time and on budget using practical planning, control and delivery methods.
Delivered in-house at your premises, as public sessions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Dubai and London, or live online. Courses run 2 Days, 3 Days, 5 Days, from R10,000 per delegate.
Fundamentals of Project Management
Every successful project rests on a set of core disciplines that anyone can learn. This foundation programme covers the full project life cycle, from initiation and planning to execution, control, and closure.
Advanced Project Management
Experienced project managers face challenges that go beyond the basics, from complex stakeholders to competing constraints. This course builds the advanced planning, control, and leadership skills needed to deliver demanding projects.
Agile Project Management with Scrum
Agile methods help teams deliver value quickly and respond to change as they go. This course covers the principles of agile and the Scrum framework, showing how to run iterative projects that keep customers involved.
Project Risk Management
Risks that go unmanaged are the reason many projects fail or overrun. This course gives project staff a structured way to identify, assess, and respond to risk so that problems are anticipated rather than met by surprise.
Project Planning and Scheduling
A reliable schedule is the backbone of project control and stakeholder confidence. This course covers how to break down work, estimate effort, and build schedules using proven techniques and common scheduling tools.
Managing Project Stakeholders and Communication
Projects succeed or fail on the strength of their relationships as much as their plans. This course helps project staff identify stakeholders, understand their interests, and communicate in ways that keep them supportive.
Programme and Portfolio Management
Managing many related projects requires a broader view than managing one alone. This course covers how to coordinate programmes and portfolios so that scarce resources go to the work that delivers the most benefit.
Project Cost Management and Control
Keeping a project within budget calls for careful estimating and constant control. This course covers how to estimate costs, set a budget baseline, and track spending so that overruns are caught and corrected early.
Contract and Procurement Management for Projects
Much of a project budget is often spent through suppliers and contractors. This course covers how to plan procurement, select the right contract type, and manage supplier performance so that outside parties deliver as promised.
PMP Certification Preparation
The PMP credential is recognised worldwide as a mark of project management competence. This intensive course prepares experienced practitioners for the examination by covering the full body of knowledge and exam technique.
Managing Multiple Projects and Priorities
Few project managers work on just one project at a time. This course gives practical techniques for juggling several projects at once, allocating attention wisely, and keeping every commitment on track without burning out.
Project Leadership and Team Building
Project managers lead people who often do not report to them, which demands strong influence and team skills. This course develops the leadership abilities needed to build, motivate, and guide a project team to success.
Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
Knowing whether a project is delivering its intended benefits requires deliberate monitoring and evaluation. This course covers how to design indicators, gather data, and report results in a way that satisfies funders and management.
Construction Project Management
Construction projects combine tight budgets, safety demands, and many contractors under one plan. This course covers the specific disciplines needed to manage building and infrastructure projects from design through to handover.
PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner
PRINCE2 provides a structured, widely adopted method for managing projects of any size. This course covers the principles, themes, and processes of the method and prepares participants for both levels of certification.
Managing Project Quality
Delivering on time and budget counts for little if the result fails to meet requirements. This course covers how to plan for quality, build it into the work, and check that deliverables meet the agreed standard.
Business Case Development and Benefits Realisation
A weak business case leads to projects that should never have started, while good benefits management ensures value is actually delivered. This course covers how to justify projects properly and track the benefits through to completion.
Digital and IT Project Management
Technology projects carry particular risks around requirements, integration, and rapid change. This course equips project staff to manage software and IT initiatives, blending traditional and agile approaches as each situation demands.
Stakeholder Negotiation and Influence in Projects
Project managers constantly negotiate over scope, resources, and priorities without the authority to simply decide. This course builds the negotiation and influencing skills needed to reach agreements that keep projects moving.
Project Management Office Setup and Operation
A well run project office raises delivery standards across an organisation, but setting one up is itself a significant undertaking. This course covers how to design, establish, and operate a PMO that managers value rather than resent.
Earned Value Management in Practice
Earned value is widely reported and poorly understood, producing numbers that reassure sponsors while a project drifts. This course covers setting a measurable baseline, claiming progress honestly and reading what the indices are really saying.
Stakeholder Engagement for Projects
Projects are stopped by people far more often than by technical failure. This course covers how to identify who matters, understand what they need and keep them engaged through the phases where support usually erodes.
Project Recovery and Turnaround
Some projects reach a point where normal controls will not save them. This course covers how to diagnose a failing project honestly, stabilise it, and either recover it on a revised basis or stop it before more money is lost.
Project Governance and Assurance
Governance is what stops a project drifting away from the decision that authorised it. This course covers how to set decision rights, run stage gates that mean something and provide assurance that gives sponsors a true picture rather than a comfortable one.
Agile Delivery for Non Software Teams
Agile methods were built for software but the underlying ideas apply anywhere work is uncertain. This course translates them for operational, marketing and administrative teams, without the ceremony that makes them a poor fit.
Construction Planning and Site Coordination
Construction programmes fail on sequencing and site logistics more often than on technique. This course covers building a buildable programme, coordinating trades and keeping a congested site moving.
Feasibility Studies and Business Case Development
Weak business cases commit organisations to projects that were never viable. This course covers testing an idea properly, building options and presenting a case that survives scrutiny by finance and the board.
Project Handover and Operational Readiness
Projects are frequently declared complete while the people who must run the result are not ready to receive it. This course covers preparing operations for handover, proving readiness and closing a project so that support does not fall back on the delivery team.
Project Communication and Reporting
Project reporting often tells sponsors what they want to hear until it is too late to act. This course covers building a reporting rhythm that surfaces problems early and communicating with stakeholders who read very little.
Benefits Management and Post Project Review
Projects are declared successful at handover and rarely checked again, so the promised benefits are never verified. This course covers defining measurable benefits, tracking them after delivery and learning from what actually happened.
Risk Workshops and Quantitative Risk Analysis
Project risk registers fill with generic entries and estimates nobody believes. This course covers running risk workshops that surface real threats and quantifying their effect on cost and schedule.
Project Scheduling with Critical Path Analysis
Schedules that look convincing often cannot be delivered because the logic underneath them was never tested. This course covers building a sound network, analysing the critical path and keeping a schedule honest through delivery.
Managing Consultants and Delivery Partners
External delivery partners are engaged for expertise and then managed as though they were staff. This course covers scoping engagements, controlling quality and knowledge transfer, and getting value from expensive help.
Change Readiness and Adoption Planning
Systems and processes get delivered on time and then nobody uses them properly. This course covers assessing readiness, preparing the people affected and measuring adoption rather than deployment.
Capital Project Stage Gates and Sanction
Capital projects commit large sums on estimates made when least was known. This course covers the stage gate discipline, independent assurance and cost control that keep major projects from running away.
Project Close Out and Final Accounts
Projects drift for months after practical completion while final accounts remain unsettled. This course covers closing a project properly and settling the commercial position.
Baselines and Change Control in Projects
A project without a controlled baseline cannot tell whether it is late, because nobody agrees what the plan was. This course covers baselining and controlling change against it.
Multi Site Project Coordination
Delivering the same project across several sites multiplies coordination rather than repeating a single effort. This course covers running multi site rollouts without losing control of any of them.
Post Contract Award Administration
Most contract value is lost after award, in administration nobody was assigned to do. This course covers running a contract through delivery so obligations are met on both sides.
Project Documentation and Configuration Control
Projects build things from drawings and specifications that keep changing, and errors follow when people work from superseded versions. This course covers controlling project documentation.
Project Portfolio Prioritisation
Organisations start more projects than they can staff, so everything runs slowly and nothing finishes. This course covers choosing what to do, and what to stop.
Resource Levelling and Capacity Planning
Plans that assume people are available full time collapse on contact with real availability. This course covers planning around the capacity that actually exists.
Lessons Learned and Knowledge Capture
Lessons are written at project close and never read again. This course covers capturing knowledge in a form the next project will actually use.
Project Estimating Techniques
Estimates are demanded before enough is known, then treated as commitments. This course covers producing estimates that are honest about uncertainty and defensible under pressure.
Interface Control Between Contractors
Work falls between contractors at the boundaries nobody wrote down, and each blames the other. This course covers defining and managing interfaces on multi contractor projects.
Managing Projects Inside an Operating Plant
A project inside a live plant answers to the people running production, and the schedule that ignores that fact does not survive its first week. This course covers delivering work around operations.