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University of Cape Town: Advanced Project Management

One-liner: Move beyond foundational project management, and elevate your tactical and strategic skills.

One-liner: Move beyond foundational project management, and elevate your tactical and strategic skills.

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12 weeks
10–12 hours per week
Starts Apr 15, 2024
Enroll by Apr 21, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
12 weeks
10–12 hours per week
Starts Apr 15, 2024
Enroll by Apr 21, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

As more organisations adopt a dynamic approach to work, the demand for advanced project management skills increases. In particular, leaders who are well equipped are able to balance a range of considerations to achieve project goals – and broader business objectives – within time and budget constraints.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Advanced Project Management online short course outlines and unpacks the key subjects you need to grasp to move beyond project management basics and handle increasingly complex tasks. With a firm focus on strategic skills, this course will help you align project management activities with your organisation’s overarching aims to bring about real change.

A strong practical component allows you to develop tools that you can immediately apply to address pressing challenges and improve current and future role performance. In addition, you’ll walk away with a certificate backed by UCT that verifies your new, advanced project management competencies.

This course is designed for professionals with existing project management knowledge or postgraduate experience in a relevant role who want to formalise their expertise or further build their skill set. Managers, business owners, events coordinators, and project team members will benefit by improving their ability to plan and execute high-level, large-scale projects. For those with limited time, course content is presented in manageable weekly modules, and students are assisted by an academic support team.

Course curriculum

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Develop a practical project plan as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Strategic project management

Module 2: The project manager

Module 3: The project management process

Module 4: Managing project integration, stakeholders, and initiation

Module 5: Managing project scope

Module 6: Managing project time

Module 7: Managing project cost

Module 8: Managing project risk

Module 9: Managing project quality

Module 10: Managing project communications and procurement

Module 11: Managing talent in projects

Module 12: Project delivery and closure

About the certificate

Develop advanced project management skills and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cape Town.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

11.4%

The proportion of organisational investment that is wasted due to poor project performance.

PMI (2020).

64%

The percentage of project managers surveyed who always or mostly engage in risk management.

Wellingtone (2021).

Why choose GetSmarter?

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