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Vol. XII Issue IV - April 2010

Project Management eJournal

 

REGIONAL REPORT:

Project Management News from South Africa

South Africa

By Jaycee Krüger, PMP

International Correspondent for PMForum & PM World Today

Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa


News from PM Professional Organizations

APM SA News

APMSA had its Annual General Meeting early March and a new board has been elected.  New products and services for its members are being considered.  APMSA is positioning itself to provide services and information to those individuals and companies that are serious about project/programme/portfolio management as a group of processes to differentiate themselves from most other companies.

Visit APMSA’s website at http://www.apmsa.org.za for more information.

PM Education News
 
IPMA Research Management Board’s  Festival of Knowledge seminar in Cape Town brought a few interesting aspects to the forefront.  The success of cross-functional integration and the management of the value chain were reported by several practitioners in several companies.  International speakers were from India, china, Slovenia and Germany.  The role of matrix algebra was highlighted when performance metrics were discussed.   A model to introduce a formal academic programme for project management was explained that is currently being considered by two training institutions in South Africa.

To read entire report click here

Jaycee Kruger

Jaycee Krüger

International Correspondent – South Africa

South Africa

Jaycee Krüger, PMP, is an International Correspondent for PMForum in South Africa. He is also the Managing Director of Mhlegahlatini (Pty) Ltd, trading as Greybeards Inc. He has spent over 30 years working in project environments with increasing responsibility, from technical design and construction supervision through construction management and project management to executive head of various functional departments and board director of a major South African project management and engineering company operating globally. Project experience includes power generation, industrial and mining projects, from shutdowns through brown-fields to green-fields in extremely remote places. He has delivered various voluntary papers and lectures on project management topics. Serving his two professions, civil engineering and project management, Jaycee was founding member of various organisations and branches of organisations, as well as subject matter expert in statutory boards governing project management. He is presently active in the Project Management Institute (PMI®) where he serves on the C&CR Communications Committee, the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE), and Project Management South Africa (PMSA) where he is currently Vice President International Liaison. He also chairs the South African mirror committee of ISO236 for the establishment of a new ISO standard on Project Management, ISO21500. Jaycee is based in Heidelberg, Gauteng Province, South Africa and can be reached at jckruger@greybeards.co.za.


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