UMT Consulting launches project management training course

Johannesburg, 23 Apr 2012

Local project, programme and portfolio management solutions provider, UMT Consulting SA, has announced that it will be hosting a three-day public training course on Microsoft Project 2010 and Project Server Collaboration 2012. The course will be held at the company's offices, in Centurion, from 22 to 24 May 2012.

The following topics will be covered in the Microsoft Project 2010 course: creating a project; the project interface; advanced tabs and customisation; working with tasks; creating milestones, constraints and deadlines; updating and polishing your project; and printing and viewing a project.

In addition, the Project Server Collaboration 2010 course will include timesheets; Web-based project editing; project permissions; resource centre; and status reports.

There will be an 'early bird' discount for the first five people to register. Candidates need to register before 8 May 2012. For more information, contact Dorette Taylor on (012) 345 3518 or e-mail dt@umtsa.co.za.

UMT Consulting SA

UMT Consulting SA is the largest project, programme and project portfolio management solutions implementation partner in South Africa and has serviced more than 100 of the country's leading organisations with its offerings. UMT Consulting SA recently concluded a BEE transaction whereby the Notsi Group owns a 25% shareholding in the ordinary share capital of the company. The company is equipped with sound staff values, capacity to deliver on its promise, practical knowledge, and it has a BEE partner that actively participates and contributes to the company's success.

UMT Consulting SA's methodology, training, mentorship and coaching approach assists organisations to successfully deploy practical and essential project, programme and project portfolio management processes, templates, systems and governance solutions across their multi-disciplinary divisions or departments.

UMT Consulting SA provides enabling solutions in the projects delivery space that consistently help its clients build capabilities that support effective business decision-making and enhance business delivery performance. Its objective is to assist its clients in ensuring the operational delivery of their strategy through effective project, programme and portfolio management.

UMT Consulting SA has achieved a Microsoft Gold Competency for Project and Project Portfolio Management in the Microsoft Partner Network, the highest competency level obtainable through Microsoft, and was awarded Microsoft's Partner of the Year award in Project Portfolio Management in October 2011.

According to UMT Consulting SA CEO Pieter Meyer, the time has passed to just improve on your delivery processes but to introduce a new way of collaborating between team members, programme and project managers, senior managers and executives. “Organisations need to enable and revive their processes by introducing a responsibility, accountability, consult and inputs (RACI) formal governance framework to their projects environments and to use workflow that will manage the governance outputs. Role base delivery management methods will become very important in any organisation to ensure return on investments in their project delivery space.”

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