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Vol. XII Issue VIII - August 2010

Project Management eJournal
REGIONAL REPORT:
Project Management News from South Africa

By Jaycee Krüger, PMP
International Correspondent for PMForum & PM World Today
Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
News from PM Professional Organizations
PMSA News
Johannesburg Branch Event - 4 August 2010
Theme: How Eskom is Fast-Tracking Mega Projects to Keep the Lights Burning - Featuring Danie Du Plooy, PMCoE manager, Eskom Project Support.
The supply of electricity to the South African public started as early as 1882 and since then, Eskom evolved into the largest supplier of electricity in Africa. Growing into this giant did not come without challenges and the company has seen many changes during this period. There were times of economic growth where new power stations were built followed by economic decline where power stations had to be mothballed. We are now experiencing another growth period in the South African economy and Eskom has had to fast track mega projects to be able to supply enough energy to meet the increasing demand and not suppress economic growth. This brings with it a host of new challenges.
PRINCE2 Practice Community Event - 4 August 2010
Presentation 1 - Implementing PRINCE2 at the Banking Sector Education and Training Authority (BANKSETA), the challenges of a fast turnaround environment.
Sandile Nzimande, PRINCE2 Practitioner and Trevor Ramitlwa, Manager Development Programmes BANKSETA have implemented a PRINCE2 based project methodology within the Education and Training environment. Sandile and Trevor share the experiences and challenges that they faced as they tailored the methodology to work in the BANKSETA environment…
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Jaycee Krüger International Correspondent – 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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