May 4th, 2009
University Programme in IT Project Management: Johannesburg 25-29 May 2009
Getting a course like this going has been
my personal passion since I first studied Project Management back in the
previous millenium, when I found that what apparently worked fine in construction
and events management did not work well for me at all when I attempted
to apply it to software development! I finally persuaded a number of people
that we needed a university course like this which is specific to IT, after
I ran into my long-lost hero, Martin Butler, in a corridor one afternoon
shortly before a trip to Botswana to do training for the Office of the
President there along with Dr. John Morrison.
The objective of the programme is to
equip project managers and owners with the knowledge required to complete
IT-intrinsic projects successfully. A generic approach is followed and
whilst reference is made to methodologies such as Agile, PRINCE2 and others,
no specific project management approach is promoted. And Martin is the
lecturer. (Yay!)
We did a trial-run of this course for
an IT company a couple of weeks before the delivery of the first public
course, which was held in Cape Town earlier this year. They came from Bloemfontein,
Durban, Johannesbug, PE and Cape Town -- 20 of them, including line managers
and senior programmers -- and it absolutely transformed the organisation.
Their training manager (herself an experienced programmer, who has done
other training in Project Managament before), said it was the best course
of any sort which she had attended in her life. I take that as a compliment
coming from a training manager!
Find
out more about the course here
and and get
an application form ASAP. (You
snooze, you lose.)