Executive Certificate in Project Management

The prospective students must meet the regular university requirement in Zimbabwe or country of origin for a BA honours degree (5 O Levels, 2 A levels including English and Mathematics), relevant diplomas and certificates will be considered. All will be considered without discrimination of race, age, nationality, gender or religion etc.
Mature Entry with minimum 5 years industry experience in any field will also be considered

• Module 1: Introduction to Project Management
  • Introduction to Projects and Project management
  • Project Management vs Operations Management
  • The Triple Constraint (Cost, quality & Scope)
  • Project Roles and Responsibilities
  • Why projects fail
  • Project Manager as a Transformational Manager
  • Project Roles and Responsibilities
  • RACI Matrix

   

  Module 2: Project Initiation and Planning

  • The project management organisation
  • Business Case
  • Project Requirements and documentation
  • MoSCOW Prioritisation in projects
  • Project scoping
  • Goal and objectives of a project
  • Project Initiation Documentation
  • Project Scope
  • Communication Strategy
  • Managing Risk and RAID Log
  • RACI Matrix
  • Benefits identification

   

  Module 3: Execution/Dev Ops + Monitoring and Control

  • Project Task Scheduling and Planning
  • Work Break Down Structure
  • Managing work packages
  • Project Scheduling – Use of Microsoft projects
  • Project Schedule Management
  • Change Request Handling
  • Ethics and Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Managing Conflicting requirements
  • Project Monitoring and control

  Module 4: Quality Management

  • Quality Assurance Testing
  • Quality assurance methods
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Team Building
  • Change Management
  • Training
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Managing resistance in change
    • Planning for launch
    • Project Reporting and accountability

   

   

  Module 5: Budgets and Cost Management

  • Project Budgeting Developing the budget of a project from various types of costs
  • Estimating Project Cost methods
  • Managing the Baseline
  • The meaning of variances in cost and progress
  • Diagnosing causes of variances
  • Remedial measures
  • TCO Calculation Methodology (Practical)
  • Benefits Realisation Tracking
  • Monitoring & Controlling Project costs

   

  Module 6: Project Closure

  • Project handovers to operations and support
  • Premature and normal closure
  • Project Evaluation
  • Documenting Project closure
  • Closure Meeting

   

  Course Work

  • 3x Group Presentations
  • 4x Individual Assignments (With Case Studies)
  • 1x In-class Online Test

   

  Lectures

  • 12x 3 Hour sessions fortnightly with 100% attendance will be required

• Prince 2 Foundation Principles
• Agile Project Management Approach
• Scrum methodologies
• Practical Project Management training with tangible case studies to upskill students to handle any project management scenario in the work environment.

Tuition:                USD 200

Application fee:   USD 20

Enrollment fee:    USD 20

• Project Manager
• Programme Manager
• Programme and Portfolio Manager
• Business Analyst
• Project Support Office

∙ 3x Group Presentations

∙ 3x Individual Assignments

∙ 2x Tests

12x 3 Hour sessions fortnightly with 100% attendance

Lecturer: Pamhidzai Maud Mhembere