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Project management training in Johannesburg works best when it fits around your team’s delivery calendar. BOTI runs practical project management courses in-house at your premises anywhere in Johannesburg, at BOTI’s venue in Sunningdale, or live online. Courses run from 1 to 3 days, and you can compare every option in our project management, agile and process improvement courses.
Courses on this topic at BOTI today
- Project Management Fundamentals (2 days)
- Project Management Course – Fundamentals (1 day)
- Advanced Project Management Course (1 day)
At your offices anywhere in South Africa, live online or at a BOTI venue.
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Looking for a project management course in Johannesburg that comes to your team instead of pulling them off-site? We train your staff together, on your projects, at your premises in Sandton, Midrand, Randburg, Rosebank or anywhere else in the Gauteng metro. Call 011 882 8853 or request a quote, and we will tailor a programme to your sector and your team’s skills levels.
In-house training, delivered at your Johannesburg premises
Most Johannesburg employers we work with would rather keep their teams in the building. With in-house delivery, a BOTI facilitator runs the course in your boardroom or training room. Your offices can be in Sandton’s financial district, the Midrand corridor between Johannesburg and Pretoria, Randburg, Rosebank or anywhere else in the metro.
On-site delivery at your premises suits Johannesburg buyers because:
- No travel downtime. Sandton and Rosebank traffic is a cost of its own. Training in your building keeps the whole team productive between sessions.
- One consistent cohort. Your whole project office, PMO or department learns the same method at the same time, so the terminology and templates stick.
- Your real projects as the case study. Exercises use your live work-breakdown structures, schedules and registers instead of generic examples.
- Flexible scheduling. Split delivery across separate days or run a condensed block to suit financial year-ends, audit cycles or campaign deadlines.
Prefer not to host? Delegates can attend at BOTI’s venue in Sunningdale, Johannesburg, or join live online sessions if your team is spread across Gauteng. The course content and outcomes are the same in every format.
Why Johannesburg teams need project management skills
Johannesburg has many head offices, financial services firms and technology businesses. That mix shapes who books this course and why:
- Head offices and corporates. Large groups with head offices in Sandton, Rosebank or Midrand run constant change, IT, expansion and compliance projects that need disciplined delivery.
- Financial services. Banks, insurers and asset managers work to tight regulatory and reporting deadlines, where scope creep and missed milestones carry a real cost.
- Professional and business services. Consultancies, agencies and shared-services centres deliver client work as projects and depend on finishing on time and on budget.
- Technology and telecoms. ICT, telecoms and engineering firms in the Midrand corridor run rollouts and infrastructure programmes that need structured project control.
When a project overruns, the cause is seldom the technology. More often, people are not planning, scheduling, managing risk and communicating to a common standard. That common standard is what this training builds.
What the course teaches
The programme prepares delegates to plan, run and close projects with confidence across the full project life cycle:
- Project initiation, scope definition and stakeholder identification
- Building a work-breakdown structure, schedule and realistic timeline
- Cost estimating and budget control
- Risk identification, assessment and mitigation
- Resource planning and team coordination
- Communication, reporting and managing stakeholders
- Quality, monitoring and controlling progress against the plan
- Project closure, handover and lessons learned
The content follows recognised project management practice and can be weighted towards your sector. For example, a financial services PMO might focus on regulatory milestone tracking, and a telecoms programme on rollout governance.
Choosing the right BOTI project management course
- Project Management Course – Fundamentals (1 day): a short introduction to the project life cycle for staff who support projects.
- Project Management Fundamentals (2 days): the core course for new project managers and team leaders, with practice on scope, schedules, budgets and risk.
- Stop Project “Rot”: Intermediate Project Management Course (1 day): for people already running projects who want to keep them on track.
- Advanced Project Management Course (1 day): for experienced project leads.
- Microsoft Project Essentials to Advanced (2 days): building and tracking schedules in Microsoft Project.
- Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC) Training (1 day): for teams moving to agile delivery.
Who should attend
This training suits a wide range of Johannesburg professionals:
- New and aspiring project managers stepping up from coordinator or team-lead roles
- Team leaders, supervisors and managers who run projects alongside their day job
- PMO and project-office staff who need a shared method across the team
- Engineers, IT specialists and analysts taking on delivery responsibility
- Business owners and managers who want consistent, predictable project delivery from their staff
No prior qualification is required for the short courses. Mixed-experience teams are welcome, and we adjust the pace and examples to suit the group.
Accreditation
BOTI’s project management short courses are not accredited. They are practical professional skills programmes, and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance.
If your team needs a formal qualification, BOTI is a QCTO-accredited Skills Development Provider and offers the Occupational Certificate: Project Manager (SAQA ID 101869). It is a separate, longer programme at NQF Level 5 with 240 credits[1]. It ends in an External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA), and the QCTO issues the certificate. BOTI also holds Services SETA accreditation (12582) for legacy SETA qualifications. Tell us your industry and team, and we will help you choose between a short course and the qualification.
Last dates for new enrolments: Project Manager (SAQA ID 101869): enrol by 30 December 2026, complete by 30 December 2029[1]. This occupational certificate closes to new learners on that date, so new learners must enrol before it.
Funding: skills development levy and B-BBEE
Training spend links to two systems that South African employers already manage:
| Lever | How it works |
|---|---|
| Skills Development Levy (SDL) | Employers pay SDL at 1% of the leviable amount (total remuneration). Employers whose leviable amount over the next 12 months will not exceed R500,000 are exempt[2]. Your SETA refunds a mandatory grant of 20% of the levies you paid if you submit your Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report by 30 April and your levy payments are up to date[3]. |
| B-BBEE skills development | The generic Codes set an overall target of 6% of the leviable amount. This is made up of 3.5% on learning programmes for black people, 2.5% on bursaries for black students at higher education institutions, and a further 0.3% for black employees with disabilities[4]. Sector codes may differ. |
| Group economies | Training a whole team in-house usually costs less per head than sending people to public courses one at a time. |
This is general guidance to help you plan, not financial or legal advice. BOTI cannot promise grants or scorecard points, so confirm the specifics with your SETA, your skills development facilitator or your B-BBEE verification agency.
Book project management training in Johannesburg
Tell us your team size, your preferred dates and where in Johannesburg you are based (Sandton, Midrand, Randburg, Rosebank or elsewhere). We will then put together a tailored in-house proposal.
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Want to scope your needs first? Ask BOTI to help you map roles, skills gaps and budget before you brief us.
Explore more:
- National guide: Project Management Training
- Same course, other cities: Project Management Training in Cape Town and Project Management Training in Durban
Frequently asked questions
Do you deliver project management training on-site in Johannesburg?
Yes. We run the course in-house at your premises anywhere in Johannesburg, including Sandton, Midrand, Randburg and Rosebank. Delegates can also attend at BOTI’s venue in Sunningdale, Johannesburg, or join live online sessions.
Which project management course should my team take?
Most teams start with the 2-day Project Management Fundamentals course. Staff who only support projects can take the 1-day fundamentals course. People already running projects can move on to the intermediate or advanced 1-day courses.
Is the project management training accredited?
The short courses are not accredited, and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance. For a formal qualification, BOTI offers the QCTO Occupational Certificate: Project Manager (SAQA ID 101869), which ends in an EISA and is certified by the QCTO.
Can the training run on Saturdays or outside normal working days?
In-house schedules are agreed with each client. Delivery can be split across separate days or run as a condensed block. Ask BOTI whether a weekend date is possible for your group.
How many people can attend one session?
In-house sessions suit a team or department. We will recommend a workable group size for your dates, so that everyone stays engaged and gets hands-on practice.
To give your Johannesburg team a shared, practical method for planning and controlling projects, book Project Management Fundamentals. Call BOTI on 011 882 8853 or email [email protected]. Training runs in-house at your premises, at BOTI’s venue in Sunningdale, Johannesburg, or live online. This course is not accredited. It is delivered as a professional skills programme, and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance.
Sources
- Occupational Certificate: Project Manager (SAQA ID 101869) – SAQA, 2026.
- Skills Development Levy – South African Revenue Service (SARS), 2026.
- Mandatory Grants – Health and Welfare SETA (HWSETA), 2026.
- Codes of Good Practice on B-BBEE: Code Series 300, Statement 300 – Skills Development (Government Gazette 42496) – Department of Trade and Industry, 31 May 2019.