Planned Academy is the training arm of Planned Limited. Every course is written and delivered by a practising planner who does the work on live infrastructure programmes, not by a trainer who last used the software in a classroom.
Courses are modular. Take one, or work through several. Each is available onsite, live online, or one to one.
Academy trains teams on behalf of the organisations that employ them. Courses are booked, scoped and invoiced with the employer, whether that is a whole team or one named person in it.
Courses
Primavera P6 Foundation. Building a schedule that works: structures, calendars, activity types, logic, and the settings that quietly determine whether a schedule behaves. For new users and for experienced users who inherited their habits from someone else.
Primavera P6 Advanced Scheduling. Resource and cost loading, baselines, progress and update discipline, multi project working, layouts, filters and reporting that people actually read.
Schedule Quality and the DCMA 14 Point Assessment. What each of the fourteen checks is testing, why it matters, how to fix a failing schedule, and how to tell a cosmetic finding from one that moves the completion date.
NEC4 Programme Management. Clause 31 and 32 in practice: what a programme must contain, the four grounds for non acceptance, the reply period, and how the Accepted Programme drives every later compensation event assessment.
Delay Analysis Fundamentals. The recognised methods, which records each one needs, how concurrency works, and why most extension of time cases are decided on records rather than on merit.
Oracle Primavera Cloud Transition. For teams moving from P6: what is different, what breaks, and how to work in the new model rather than fighting it.
How it is delivered
- Onsite at your offices or on site, for a whole team
- Live online, delivered in sessions rather than as a recorded course, so questions get answered
- One to one, for a named person in your team who needs to get to a standard quickly
- Course material is built around your own programmes where you want it to be, so what people learn on Tuesday is usable on Wednesday
- Every course issues a certificate of completion recording the CPD hours
Who it is for
Planners and schedulers who want to close a specific gap rather than sit through a general course.
Project managers, commercial managers and engineers who have to read, challenge or accept a programme without being planners themselves. This is the largest untrained group in the industry and the one where training pays back fastest.
Teams inheriting a new tool or a new contract, where a P6 rollout, an Oracle Primavera Cloud transition or a first NEC4 programme has moved faster than the people using it.
Employers bringing people into planning from engineering, construction management or commercial roles, including those recruiting service leavers. Planned Limited is a signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, and project controls is one of the closest civilian equivalents to military planning.
Academy does not run open courses for individuals buying their own training. If you are funding your own development, the blog is free and covers a good deal of the same ground.
Next cohort
Dates are released to the waiting list first. Tell us which course, which format and how many people, and we will come back with dates, or arrange a dedicated session for your team. Bookings are made with the employing organisation.
Planned Limited is an APM Corporate Affiliate and a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you need any adjustment to take part in a course, tell us and we will make it.