The plan, in three moves
1
PMI Project Management Basics — DONE 20 Aug ✓ — two days before the deadline.
23 contact hours banked. That is the CAPM education requirement, cleared.
2
MS Project — REGISTERED, School of IT, 24 Aug · LICENCE ORDERED BY DAD 21 Aug (he emailed Lodemann IT: “install MSP on Akhanya’s laptop” — Mthobisi Sishi replied “Noted”) · COURSE PACK SHARED VIA DRIVE 25 Aug — STILL UNOPENED.
The tool the job actually runs on. This is what makes me employable, not the theory. Nothing left to buy and nothing left to arrange — the only gap is opening the folder. No Plan 3 needed: Microsoft wants USD $30/user/month for it and Project Professional 2024 is R26,999 once, both irrelevant when the company is licensing me.
3
CAPM exam — parked, unlocked and bookable, but not the assignment.
PMI's entry credential. Needs matric + 23 contact hours. Both cleared. It wasn't raised when the next course was named.
01 · COMPLETE ✓ 20 AUG
Project Management Basics
Project Management Institute · Official PMI course · order #25001892240
- Format
- 100% online, self-paced, no fixed dates
- Location
- Anywhere — my laptop
- Length
- 23 contact hours — finished Thu 20 Aug, deadline was Fri 21
- Paid
- $232 · 16 Aug
- Status
- Complete ✓ — finished 20 Aug 2026, two days early
What it gives me: the full 23-hour education requirement for CAPM in one purchase, plus a PMI completion certificate and the digital PMBOK guide.
Deadline was Fri 21 Aug — delivered Thu 20 ✓
Certificate delivered ✓ — same day it was finished, 20 Aug. Called shot: he said Friday, it landed Thursday, and he has the PDF to prove the date.
AWARD · ENTRY CLOSES 30 SEPT · NO EXTENSIONS
IPMA-SA — Young Project Manager of the Year
National award · finalists 23 Oct · ceremony 20 Nov, DHL Stadium CT · written assessor report win or lose
- Webinar
- Wed 26 Aug 11:00 — joining link requested by email 24 Aug · reminder set 10:43
- Entry
- 3 true stories × 500 words — one doing-the-work · one people · one bigger-picture, each as situation → task → action → result
- Proof
- Max 2 pages per story — a third of the marks. No links allowed anywhere; apps go in as screenshots
- Referees
- Supervisor with contact details (the firm — rebuild story) + client's written okay incl. satisfaction (KHOZA?)
- Fee
- Unknown — nothing on their public pages; register at the portal to see it checked 24 Aug
- Submit by
- 20 Sept — own buffer · hard close 30 Sept, they grant no extensions
THE ECLIPSE runs through this: make one thing daily · show one thing weekly · enter one thing quarterly, judged by strangers. This entry is quarter one's detonation — and money or fame only count when reality pays them.
ask Wednesday: fee? · project-age bar? · self-directed projects ok? · what separates finalists?
THIS WEEK · ASSIGNED · TARGET 100%
The PMI-CP week — construction-specific, straight from the source
- First
- PMI-CP — Scope & Change Order Mgmt · BOUGHT ✓ · ALL 8 LESSONS + ASSESSMENT COMPLETE 27 AUG · 14 hrs · assessment: 80% to pass · unlimited attempts · no time limit (verified off PMI’s own quiz record, 26 Aug) · COURSE PASSED ✓ CERTIFICATE ISSUED 27 AUG 2026 — 8/8 lessons complete · 6 quiz answer keys · 20-Q mock + 37 cards live in DRILL · target 100% · course
- Then
- PMI-CP — Project Communications · BOUGHT ✓ 25 AUG · IN PROGRESS 28 AUG — module 1 of 14 complete · THE HOST IS learn.pmi.org, NOT learning.pmi.org — that one letter cost a whole night of failed logins. Route that works: pmi.org → account menu → Learning → Start on the course card; that click does the SSO handoff. Org unit 8265. Each module is a narrated deck of ~10 pages and NEXT does nothing until the narration ends — set playback to 2× (speed icon, not the gear). Each section commits on Exit Section. · 14 hrs · assessment, target 100% · course
- If ahead
- Procore — Project Manager Certification · 3 hrs + final exam · enrol
- Approved
- Columbia Construction PM — YES, 25 Aug. Starts Monday, runs parallel with MS Project (30 + 10 hrs = one normal week) · cert by next Sunday
The week: 28 hrs of PMI-CP into 42 controlled hours — the spare 14 are for drilling to the 100%. Scope & Change first. Bright + MS Project pick up Monday.
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