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Advanced Planning and Project Controls

For working planners ready to step up to senior planning and project controls roles. Covers earned value management, schedule quality and health checks, delay and forensic analysis fundamentals, risk-loaded schedules and building controls dashboards that management actually uses.

8 weeks · 48 hours
Live online
Next batch 16 Aug 2026

What you'll be able to do

  • Design a project controls framework for a complex project
  • Implement earned value management and interpret CPI/SPI trends
  • Run schedule health checks and quality metrics (DCMA-style)
  • Prepare time-impact and as-planned vs as-built analyses
  • Build management dashboards in Power BI from P6 data

Who should enrol

  • Planners with 2+ years of P6 experience
  • Project controls engineers targeting lead roles
  • PMO staff standardising controls across projects

Prerequisites

  • Working knowledge of Primavera P6
  • Experience on live projects strongly recommended

Course modules

  1. 01

    Project Controls Frameworks

    • Controls organisation and cadence
    • Baselines and change
    • Progress measurement systems
  2. 02

    Earned Value Management

    • EVM metrics and forecasting
    • Rules of credit
    • Integrating cost and schedule
  3. 03

    Schedule Quality & Risk

    • Schedule health metrics
    • Risk-loaded schedules
    • QSRA concepts
  4. 04

    Delay Analysis Fundamentals

    • Delay analysis methods
    • Time impact analysis
    • Records and evidence
  5. 05

    Controls Reporting & Dashboards

    • Exporting P6 data
    • Power BI controls dashboards
    • Executive reporting
  6. 06

    Capstone

    • Full controls pack for a case-study project
    • Panel presentation

Software & standards

  • Primavera P6
  • Power BI
  • Excel (advanced)

Practical projects

  • Produce a monthly project controls report pack — EVM, schedule health, risk and narrative
  • Build a live Power BI dashboard from P6 exports

Upcoming batches

16 Aug 2026Live onlineWeekend · 17:00 – 20:00Registration open
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Your instructor

PC

Lead Instructor — Planning & Controls

Senior Planning & Project Controls Engineer

14+ years industry experience

Profile to be published. Planning programmes are led by a senior planner who has run project controls on high-rise, rail and energy projects, and builds the P6-to-Power BI reporting pipelines taught in class.

Specialisation
Primavera P6, earned value management and controls reporting
Certifications
PMI-SP® · Guild of Project Controls (GPC) member
Projects & sectors
High-rise construction · Oil & gas · Rail

Teaches

Frequently asked questions

The analysis content applies to both tools, but exercises use P6. We recommend completing Primavera P6 and Construction Planning first.

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