Why choose this course?

Practical application to advanced projects:

Participants apply learning practically to their own context in assignments for strategic realisation, technical, and leadership that allow immediate implementation in real-life projects.

Articulation to Stellenbosch Business School’s Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management:

On successful completion of this course, and our other Project Management courses, participants can apply for exemption of 15 credits towards the present curriculum of the PGDip in Project Management (NQF 8) offered at Stellenbosch Business School.

*Subject to Stellenbosch Business School’s requirements.

Aligned to the PMI Talent Triangle:

The course aligns the Project Management Institute’s triad of competencies related to business acumen, ways of working, and power skills in the three modules on strategic realisation, technical, and leadership, ensuring that participants have full exposure to leading practices in project management.

Over the course of 20 weeks, participants will be equipped to:

• Contextualise a project within the strategic context of the organisation.
• Apply business case management steps and a gated process to a continued business case for a strategic-level project to ensure that the project realises value for project stakeholders.
• Formulate a strategic-level project schedule with the framework for time / cost trade-offs.
• Apply Earned Value Management methodology to a strategic-level project.
• Recommend leadership approaches to effectively manage projects through people by addressing challenges related to team and organisational dynamics, interpersonal conflict and communication, and performance-related coaching of project team members.
• Utilise the dynamic change management framework to lead projects as change.