Ernest Mnkandla

Ernest is a professor at the University of South Africa’s School of Computing, he lectures Software Engineering & Software Project Management to honours students. He also supervises a number of master & doctoral students & has lectured in ICT for over 21 years. Ernest’s educational background includes an honours degree in Electrical Engineering, a master degree in Computer Science, a master degree Education and a PhD in Electrical Engineering. He is a certified Scrum Master. Prof Mnkandla researches in software engineering, software project management (tools and techniques), the relations between PMI’s PMBOK and Agile Project Management, the adoption issues in agile software development methods, machine learning, and predictive analytics and project management intelligence. He is passionate about improving the quality of software development from an individual developer’s level to software development teams, and he coaches young developers to measure and improve their performance. Ernest has published and presented papers extensively on software engineering, agile methodologies and software development, and project management within Africa and internationally.