Martin J. Smit
Johannesburg, South Africa
Martin Smit is a Project Management Specialist/Consultant/Advisor and works in the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) of a State Owned Enterprise (SOE) in South Africa. He has almost 40 years of experience in construction-, project-, outage-, and maintenance management. Martin has extensive experience in the development and application of project life cycles methodologies and best practices. He is certified as a Project Definition Readiness Assessment (PDRA) facilitator. He is also certified to facilitate learning and conduct outcomes based assessments and has developed and presented various project and outage management training courses within the SOE.
Martin has an MSc (Management of Technology and Innovation) in the domain of Project Management. He is registered as a doctoral student at the North-West University in South Africa. He is a Project Management Professional, Professional Construction Project Manager and a Professional Technologist (Engineering). He has been a speaker at various conferences and seminars. He can be contacted at martin.smit@vodamail.co.za.
Created 6 December 2017
Articles and Papers
- Governance of projects: A success factor or constraint for effective project delivery? - Commentary - Smit - March 2022
- Will The new standard for project management and PMBOK® Guide, 7th Edition lead to more successful delivery of projects? - Commentary - Smit - October 2021
- Do organisational project management practitioners have a higher calling/purpose in life? - Commentary - Smit - March 2021
- Are project management processes correctly mapped to the Project Management Process Groups in the PMBOK® Guide? - Commentary - Smit - June 2020
- Should additional Project Management Knowledge Areas and related project management processes be considered for inclusion in the PMBOK® Guide? - Commentary - Smit - October 2019
- Development of a project portfolio management model for executing organisational strategies: A normative case study - Featured Papers - Smit - December 2017