Software Project Management
Online and Face-to-face
Delivery mode
6 x 4-hr sessions
duration
Advanced
Skill Level
R14,5000
cost
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Overview
The JCSE is offering a six session course on Software Project Management. This course is an accredited Wits University Short Course targeted at a post-graduate or professional developer level.
This on-line course is aimed at students with an interest in managing and participating in the development of modern computer software. Software Engineering is an attempt to bring engineering discipline and formal methodologies to the task of software development. The course focuses on the overall management of the development process.
The course also looks at project management issues in an Agile Development environment.
Completing this course will help you:
- Understand what makes software development different from other engineering projects.
- Understand the various steps in the project planning process.
- Evaluate a software project against strategic, technical and economic criteria and assess the risks involved.
- Select an appropriate lifecycle model appropriate to the characteristics of a specific project.
- Estimate software effort.
- Produce a development plan.
- Identify factors putting a project at risk.
- Allocate resources to a project
- Monitor and control a software project
- Understand and manage the issues relating to software quality.
Who is the course for?
This is an advanced-level course. It is aimed at those who are professional developers with 5 or more years of relevant experience. Although there are no formal educational pre-requisite courses required for this course, familiarity with coding and professional software development will be an advantage.

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I'm Barry Myburgh - your lecturer for this course
After graduating from Wits with a B.Sc. Eng. (Elec) degree, it did not take long for me to start working in the Computer Industry. Some years later I graduated from UNISA with a Master in Business Leadership (MBL) degree. (UNISA’s equivalent of an MBA.)
Throughout my career I have delighted in sharing with others things that I have managed to understand and master. This naturally led to me getting involved with training and education from my earliest days in the Industry.
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