At Project Control Academy, we add value to project professionals around the globe not only through our best-in-class training programs but also through our top quality masterclasses and complimentary training series. Here is a list of our in-demand free training series and masterclasses delivered by our top quality experts in project controls and project management. Register for any of these training series and masterclasses for free and gain the knowledge and skills you need to take your project professional career to new heights.
If you are new to Project Controls, registering for this free training series on project controls is a must. In this 3-part video training series, Shohreh Ghorbani, Founder and Technical Director of Project Control Academy, reveals secrets of project controls field and how to highly succeed in project controls.
If you are new to project controls and the concept of Earned Value Management (EVM), registering for this free training series on EVM is a must. In this 3-part video training series, Shohreh Ghorbani, Founder and Technical Director of Project Control Academy, reveals secrets of Earned Value Management and how to unleash its amazing power in effectively managing your projects.
Have you ever been tasked with creating a weekly or monthly project status report? Ever feel overwhelmed consolidating data from various sources, starting from scratch each time?
What if you could have a “One-Click Reporting Tool” For Project Controls?
Sounds impossible?!!
Well, Power BI has made the next level of automation for Project Controls reporting possible! You can now use “Power BI” (a product of Microsoft) to visualize data and create interactive reports/ dashboards for key stakeholders.
Interested in learning how you can leverage the power of Power BI in your project reporting and analysis?
Then join us in this free masterclass, where Jeancarlo Durán Maica, an SME on Power BI & digital planning & reporting, will show you how you can automate your Project Controls reporting cycle with Power BI.
If you’ve ever been involved in developing a project schedule baseline and later updating and reporting the schedule progress and performance, you know it’s not an easy task.
Developing a robust schedule, maintaining the schedule, and effectively communicating the schedule performance usually takes time and requires a set of skillsets.
What if you learn proven strategies to save time in developing and updating your project schedules?
Wouldn’t it be nice if you were equipped with some practical tactics that could help you cut your schedule development and maintenance time and automate your schedule data visualization and reporting?
Imagine cutting your scheduling time in half and having more time for schedule analysis.
Wondering how?
Then, this masterclass is for YOU!
For many, Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) is a complex secretive technique, which relies on smoke, mirrors and mathematical trickery. The aim of this webinar is to draw back the curtain and show that QRAs are not that complex and by learning a few basic steps you can apply QRAs to any project to aid in their successful delivery.
Join us on this free webcast to explore how you can kickstart Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis on your next project.
In this masterclass, Richard Citrine, a well-rounded leader in the area of Quantitative Risk Assessment, who has led risk management on a wide range of multibillion-dollar rail, aviation, and tunneling programs in the UK and the USA, along with your host, Shohreh Ghorbani, will equip you with a practical and pragmatic approach to Quantitative Risk Assessment.
This is another series of free training masterclasses that will address some of the excellent questions posed in the Project Control Academy’s online forums by the participants in the Forensic Schedule Delay Analysis course. We see these training series as a way to provide more public insight into a number of excellent forensic analysis questions that we find are asked by the knowledgeable participants.
Many questions asked addresses the delay analysis during the course of the project rather than in a claims situation well after the event completion, extending the forensic nature into the prospective analysis field. This reinforces that forensic analysis training is useful throughout the project lifecycle.
In this masterclass, the industry thought leader, Chris Carson, will answer the question: “when should the extension of time be provided, and should it be granted to the activity or milestone?”
You will leave this masterclass with a greater understanding of delays, analysis methods, and the best way to deal with delays and extensions of time.
Although Earned Value Management is such a compelling project performance monitoring and forecasting technique and has been around for over a century, it doesn’t create miracles in projects if you don’t know how to implement it in your projects properly.
Project team members may be told to start using earned value management in their projects, with the management expectation that project results will soon improve. However, shortly after beginning to apply EVM in projects, the reality kicks in. No real improvement is obtained, project management costs are up, and the project team members are complaining about all of the “extra work” created as a result of EVM.
The reality is that there are some fundamental principles you need to have in place to make Earned Value Management work for you.
In this master class, we will unlock the 6 essential building blocks to effective Earned Value Management implementation.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could integrate your EVM, cost, and schedule data inside one platform, realize the project updates in real-time, and flag the project issues before they occur?
Well, the fact is there is a good solution.
This is what this masterclass is all about.
During this highly informative masterclass, Cesar Ramos, an Advanced Planning Analytics SME, provides you his proven methodology of cost and schedule integration. He shares with you how you can overcome the top 5 challenges that might prevent you from having an integrated cost and schedule right inside your scheduling software such as Primavera P6.
In this free master class, the industry thought leader, Chris Carson, will discuss all the ramifications of the issue related to the owner’s right to require proof or validation for Baseline Schedule Original Durations when evaluating a Contractor’s Time Impact Analysis (TIA) to support a request for Extension of Time. Chris will help you with a better understanding of this issue from both Owner and Contractor perspectives. You will be equipped with the suggested approaches to dealing with and resolving this topic when it arises.
Implementing the proposed strategies in this master class should lead to avoiding the problem in most cases and result in quicker, more collaborative resolution when the issue does arise.
Managing engineering activities can be more challenging than managing construction activities. Activity scopes are harder to define, the level of progress is often not readily apparent, and the activities may be iterative in nature. The problem-solving nature of engineering can make it hard to plan in detail, because engineers don’t know the details of the solution until they begin the work.
In EPC and design/build projects, planners may be pushed to provide detailed schedules for both engineering and construction activities that go well beyond the level of design development available.
Join this highly informative master class to learn how you can develop a reasoned approach for the implementation of CPM scheduling on these types of projects, and the best method to achieve buy-ins from engineers, constructors, owners, and other stakeholders.
Project Professionals have a challenging role in today’s fast-paced environment, where there is always a lot going on and where projects themselves are often complex and difficult to manage efficiently. Clients are becoming more demanding and have higher expectations, which in turn increases the workload in your projects.
On one hand you want to fill your knowledge gaps, expand your skills, succeed in your projects, and fulfill your career desires. On the other hand, you are dealing with uncertainty, constantly working on short deadlines, juggling more tasks that you can handle, and getting busier than ever.
This has caused an uphill battle for you as a busy project professional, where you always seem to be fighting an invisible force that is constantly pushing you back down.
But it doesn’t have to be this way! There are various strategies to tackle this uphill battle and get back control over your personal and professional life.
Attend this masterclass to discover some practical strategies that you can leverage today so you can win the battle, accelerate your projects success rate, and take your career in project controls and project management to new heights.
In this highly informative master class, Chris Carson, a well-recognized thought leader in the subject of Forensic Schedule Delay Analysis and Project Controls, along with your host, Shohreh Ghorbani, will provide you an overview of background information related to forensic schedule delay analysis and dispute resolution.
You will receive valuable insights on how to perform delay claim preliminary assessments, the best ways to develop a plan of action for a claim, how to evaluate the opposition claim, and how to present the claim. This master class will show you strategies on how you can get a delay claim to the finish line.
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