Become a Planner: Project Planning & Controls Course

The Complete Planning Course

Become a Planner.

Humanity has been planning since the pyramids. The method has not changed. What has changed is how rarely anyone actually teaches it, instead of just handing you software and hoping for the best.

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Primavera P6 PMBOK Aligned Critical Path Method Earned Value Management Work Breakdown Structure Risk Management Baseline & Re-Baseline Reporting Engineering Forensic Planning & Claims Strategic Planning Certificate of Completion Primavera P6 PMBOK Aligned Critical Path Method Earned Value Management Work Breakdown Structure Risk Management Baseline & Re-Baseline Reporting Engineering Forensic Planning & Claims Strategic Planning Certificate of Completion
35Years Experience
14Countries
8Parts
44Chapters
23Academic Hours
$99Everything

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This knowledge has been locked behind corporate training budgets for too long.

I have worked on every continent. I have watched brilliant engineers destroy good projects because nobody ever taught them the fundamentals. Not the software. The thinking. I have taken calls from Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East. People who needed this and could never afford the $2,000 corporate course. So I am giving it away. Not free because free is not valued. $99. The price of your commitment to learning it.

Where thinking
meets execution.

It starts with a BBQ.

Before you buy the meat. Before you light the fire. One question determines everything, how many people are we inviting? That is your Scope of Work. That is where every project on earth begins. From the BBQ to the billion-dollar pipeline the thinking is the same. Only the zeros change.

"Planning techniques are like ice skating. The Project Controls team must be skilled enough to do a basic routine. But only excellence achieves the gold medal."

Every skater knows the fundamentals. The spins. The footwork. The routine. Without them you cannot compete. But the ones who win understood it deeply enough to go beyond it.

This is what working knowledge means. Not just knowing how to use software. Understanding how to assemble a schedule that reflects reality. How to align a team around what was agreed. How to deliver the execution the way it was promised at the beginning.

The tools change. The software evolves. But the discipline of planning has not changed since the pyramids were built on different continents by different cultures who never knew each other. Learn the discipline. The rest follows.

Every project tells its story through the schedule.

Activities. Logic. Critical path. Baseline. The Gantt chart is not a picture. It is a contract between the plan and reality. This course teaches you to build it, read it, and defend it in Primavera P6, the global standard for large-scale EPCM projects.

ACTIVITY DUR SCHEDULE W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 Engineering Design 14d Procurement 7d Manufacturing 21d CRIT Site Preparation 10d Installation 14d CRIT Testing and Commissioning 7d Inspection, HOLD POINT 1d Documentation and Closeout 5d Normal Critical Actual Milestone Data Date PRIMAVERA P6, PROJECT SCHEDULE

Eight parts.
Everything.
One price.

Part 01

Foundations of Planning & Project Controls

What planning actually is. The history of CPM and PERT. How professionals think before they open any software. Strategic planning, from vision to project.

6 Chapters · Including Strategic Planning

Part 02

Scope Definition & Work Breakdown Structure

Define what you are building. SOW. WBS. OBS. Get this wrong and nothing else matters.

4 Chapters

Part 03

Building a Schedule in Primavera P6

Calendars, activities, logic, relationships, critical path. A full P6 walkthrough from blank file to working schedule.

7 Chapters · Hands-On

Part 04

Baseline & Progress Measurement

Setting the baseline. The S-Curve. Earned Value. SPI. CPI. Measuring what is actually happening against what was planned.

5 Chapters

Part 05

Risk Management in Planning & Controls

Identify. Analyse. Respond. Monitor. Risk integrated into planning, not bolted on as an afterthought.

5 Chapters

Part 06

Reporting Engineering

How information flows on a real EPCM project. Daily, weekly, monthly reports. From field data to executive dashboard.

5 Chapters

Part 07

Re-Baseline & Advanced Project Controls

When reality breaks the plan. How to re-baseline without chaos. EOT claims. Document control. The most senior skill in the profession.

5 Chapters · Advanced

Part 08

Forensic Planning and Claims

As-planned vs as-built. Delay analysis methods. Extension of Time. Contemporaneous records. Preparing a delay claim. The planner as expert witness.

7 Chapters · Advanced

Ramon Granados

BSc Civil & Environmental Engineering · PMP

35+ years EPCM experience
Oil & Gas · Mining · Infrastructure · Civil
14 countries · All continents
Onshore & Offshore · Greenfield & Brownfield
Perth, Western Australia

"I didn't learn this
in a classroom.
I learned it on site."

Where missing a deadline cost millions. Where getting it right meant thousands of people had jobs.

I started in Venezuela. I worked through South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the former Soviet states, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Projects worth hundreds of millions. Projects worth billions. Every single one taught me the same thing.

The plan is not the schedule file. The plan is the thinking. And the thinking is something any human being can learn.

I am putting everything I know into this course. Not a sanitized version. The real thing. For $99 because the world needs more people who know how to plan.

Complete bundle, one payment, lifetime access

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8 parts · 44 chapters · ~23 hours · PMBOK aligned · Primavera P6
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Included: Downloadable Resources

📄The Planning Career Ladder: From Cadet to Director
📄Primavera P6 vs MS Project: Which One and Why
📄AI for Planners: What Changes and What Does Not
📄Basis of Schedule Template: Professional Standard
📄Rules of Thumb When Preparing a Schedule
📄Sample Project Schedule with Full Explanation
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