PPM Lecturers

Founder of the PPM

Module: PM Principles, Practices and Scheduling

Prior to pursuing his ‘second career’ as an academic (full professor/emeritus professor in project management at the GSTM, University of Pretoria), Herman worked for 22 years in project environments where he held senior positions and managed a variety of small and large projects.

He is a Millennium Life Member of the SA Society of Professional Engineers.

Rewards he recently received during his ‘second career’:

2025: Lifetime Achiever Award, PMI (Project Management Institute) SA Chapter - for "... outstanding performance, dedication, and professionalism [that] demonstrated the true spirit of project management excellence."

2024: ScholarGPS ranked Herman as No. 20 globally in the field of project management in 2024 and placed him in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide.
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PPM Course Leader

Module: Project Quality Management

Dr Corro van Waveren is a Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM) at the University of Pretoria. He holds the degrees: B.Eng. (Mechanical), M.Eng. (Mechanical), and M.Eng. (Engineering Management) cum laude, and a PhD in Engineering Management.

He has been registered as a Professional Engineer with ECSA since 1995 and is a member of the South African Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

He began his career as an engineer at the Laboratory for Advanced Engineering (Pty) Ltd, where he was involved in projects, primarily in the automotive, mining, and defence industries. Quality management is one of his passions, and in this capacity, he implemented the ISO 9001 standard in a test laboratory that specialised in the research and development of servo-hydraulic test systems as well as service load simulation software and its applications.
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Module: Financial Principles and Project Cost Management

Anneli Delport is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Financial Management at the University of Pretoria and previously also worked at the Tshwane University of Technology.

She is also an alumni of the University of Pretoria, where she obtained a B.Com Hons degree in Accounting Science & Certificate in the Theory of Accounting in 2004. She returned to the University of Pretoria and obtained Masters Degree in Financial Management in 2020. Anneli qualified as a Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) at the end of 2006.
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Module: Project Management in the Business Context

Giel is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Technology Management at the University of Pretoria where he is the Academic Lead of the Master’s Programme in Project Management (MPM), the only master’s programme in project management on the African Continent that is accredited by the GAC of the PMI (Project Management Institute). His tuition is primarily focused on the MEM (Masters in Engineering Management) and MPM (Masters in Project Management) programmes as well as various short courses to specific clients and institutions like Eskom, ABSA, Dept of Water Affairs, Denel, Habitat for Humanities, MTN, Glencore, Group 5, Anglo American, Kumba, Sasol, Exxaro, Komatiland, etc. The APPM (Advanced Programme in Project Management) was developed under his leadership. In 2009 he received an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to teach on the Master in Strategic Project Management Programme at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland and in 2011 at Umea University in Sweden on the same programme. He is also a visiting scholar at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
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Module: Project Procurement and Contract Management

Prof Taryn Barnard is an experienced project manager and industrial engineer who is currently pursuing her academic interests.

Qualifications and Affiliations

BEng Industrial Engineering (cum laude), MEng Project Management (cum laude) and a PhD in Project Management, all from the University of Pretoria.

Taryn is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE2® Practitioner and is registered as a professional engineer with ECSA.

In 2017 she was selected for the prestigious Tuks Young Research Leader Programme. In 2018 she was awarded the International Project Management Association (IPMA) Global Young Researcher Award.
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Module: Project Risk Management

Associate Professor, Department of Engineering and Technology Management, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & IT, University of Pretoria

PhD (Eng Man), Pr.Eng, M.Eng, B.Eng (Hon), B.Eng (Mechanical) & GCC Factories

I am currently an Associate Professor specialising in Technology and Innovation Management, as well as Risk Management. I perform research in these fields and also data science. Some of my latest research projects utilised supervised machine learning (Artificial Intelligence) to classify academic papers using natural language processing. I utilised Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio.

During my time at York Timbers I was the Group Engineer and my responsibilities focused on project development and execution.
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Reniel is Projects Director at ProjectWay Consulting and Contracting. His is involved the management of a portfolio of projects for various clients, either directly or with a team of project managers and engineers. Clients have included Daimler AG, Rift Valley Holdings, Glencore, Mintails, Harmony Gold, MTN, Anglo American, ABSA (via Richmark) and Eskom.

Completed projects include motor manufacturing Infrastructure, mine development, water management, conveyor systems, mine ventilation, rehabilitation, retail banking infrastructure refurbishment, game farm tourism development, rural electrification, process plants and support infrastructure, as well as the development of customized project management methodologies.
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Module: Project Risk Management

Krige Visser (PhD) is an Emeritus Professor from the University of Pretoria since 2016. Having graduated as a Chemical Engineer at the University of Stellenbosch in 1973, Krige Visser was mainly involved in research and development at the Atomic Energy Corporation of South Africa from 1974 to 1988. He was also involved in the commissioning of a pilot plant and the full-scale uranium enrichment plant. Various pilot plant investigations were performed to determine the performance of the process gas separation elements. One project also comprised an investigation into the removal of oil vapor from hydrogen by means of activated carbon adsorption columns. This project led to the PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria in 1990.

He then joined the Denel company from 1988 to 1974 where he was involved in systems engineering and project management in armaments procurement. One project involved the design and development of a chemical survival system for an armoured car. He was appointed as manager for a business unit with 27 employees.
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