Practical training for project controls teams

Practical Courses for Planning Engineers & Project Controls Professionals

Learn Power BI, Progress Measurement Sheet workflows, and Delay Analysis through structured, practical training built around real project workflows.

Plannex Academy is designed for planners, project controls professionals, PMO teams, and construction learners who need skills that transfer directly into reporting, dashboards, progress tracking, and claims work.

Planning dashboardsPower BI + PMS + Primavera/P6 + claims workflows
17hPower BI training
54Downloadable resources
3.5hAdvanced PMS training
869Power BI learners
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Why Plannex Academy

Built for Real Work

Training stays anchored to reporting, dashboards, planning, PMS workflows, and claims workflows rather than generic software demonstrations.

Specialized Industry Focus

The audience is planning engineers, project controls professionals, PMO teams, and construction organizations.

Structured Learning Journey

Courses move from foundations into repeatable systems learners can use in live project environments.

Practical Templates & Examples

Students learn through real examples, downloadable resources, case studies, and project-ready outputs.

The learning journey

01

Start with the foundations

Understand the planning, data, PMS, and controls logic behind each workflow.

02

Follow structured lessons

Move through clear lessons instead of fragmented tool tricks.

03

Apply through real examples

Practice against dashboards, progress sheets, schedules, and claims-related scenarios.

04

Use the skills in real projects

Take the output back into project controls teams with confidence.

Flagship course

Microsoft Power BI for Project Planning and Control

This is the strongest sales section because the course directly addresses how planning and project controls professionals turn raw project data into practical reporting.

  • Connect Primavera or Excel data directly into reporting workflows
  • Build cash flow charts, S-curves, KPI cards, and interactive status reports
  • Learn advanced Power Query options and DAX formulas in project use cases
  • Extend the work into portfolio dashboards and Power BI Service publishing
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What students build and learn

Project dashboards, portfolio views, KPI logic, schedule visualizations, S-curves, report-sharing workflows, and live project update patterns tied to planning data.

109 lecturesStructured curriculum across 10 sections
Primavera/P6Direct integration is a key differentiator
4.3 / 5Rated by enrolled learners on the source course
Excel workflow track

Progress Measurement Sheet paths

Plannex Academy now includes a dedicated PMS path that starts with a free basics track and moves into the advanced course for dynamic reporting, macros, pivot tables, and Plannex integration.

  • Free basics track for PMS foundations
  • Advanced course with macros and dynamic pivot tables
  • Free Plannex Excel tool integration for advanced progress control
  • Built for planners, PMO teams, and reporting engineers

Start with PMS

Use the free track for entry-level PMS understanding, then move into the advanced course for practical automation and reporting workflows.

Premium upcoming course

Delay Analysis & Claims waitlist

Be the first to know when enrollment opens for the academy’s premium course in forensic schedule delay analysis and claims preparation.

  • Construction delay classifications and contractual implications
  • Prospective and retrospective methods, including TIA and windows analysis
  • Claim structure: cause, effect, entitlement, and substantiation
  • Templates, narratives, and practical case-study application

Waitlist access

Be the first to know when enrollment opens. Use the current contact page as the waitlist endpoint until a dedicated form is published.

Join Delay Analysis Waitlist

Frequently asked questions

Plannex Academy is built mainly for planning engineers, project controls professionals, PMO teams, and construction learners who need practical skills that apply to real project workflows.
The homepage now highlights a free Progress Measurement Sheet basics track plus the Advanced Progress Measurement Sheet course for deeper automation, pivot-table reporting, and Plannex integration.
It has the clearest direct value path: connect project data, build dashboards, create S-curves and KPI reporting, and publish results that managers can use immediately.
It focuses on building a complete baseline PMS from scratch, automating repetitive work with macros, using dynamic pivot tables, and applying free Plannex Excel features for advanced progress control.
The upcoming course covers TIA, impacted as-planned, windows analysis, collapsed as-built, contractual implications, entitlement logic, and claim preparation workflows.
Live academy courses are intended to be accessed through the site course and dashboard flow. The homepage links either to the site course archive, the live Advanced PMS course page, or the current Power BI enrollment destination.

Start Building Practical Skills That Apply to Real Projects

Use the academy homepage as the conversion-first entry point, then move learners into course browsing, enrollment, and the student dashboard.