There’s a Better Way To Learn Project Controls
Plan Academy, an online training company, produces and delivers online, on-demand training on Project Controls, software like Oracle Primavera P6 Professional and related applications for the project controls community. Plan Academy shares project controls advice and Primavera P6 tutorials on our blog. Plan Academy’s online training platform teaches students to build schedules from scratch using Oracle Primavera P6 software on a customized learning management system using professional videos, step-by-step tutorials and other rich media content.
Our Story
Plan Academy began life back in 2011 as the Planner’s Tutorial Hub (PlannerTuts for short). Working as a Primavera P6 trainer for a number of years, I found there were gotchas in Primavera P6 that most people stumbled on and the workarounds needed to be shared. So I started a blog.
My first few Primavera P6 tutorial blog posts exemplify a lot of what we still strive to do today – make project controls simple (you can still see them).
Those early blog posts were some of the first on the internet that focused on Primavera P6. And people were reading them, and finding them valuable (check the comments). There were hungry people out there starving to understand the nuances of Oracle’s P6 software and to know the solutions and workarounds to their Primavera P6 problems.
In February 2013, Plan Academy launched its first training product (then, PlannerTuts Premium), a series of written tutorials on various Primavera P6 topics. Quickly, PlannerTuts Premium evolved to focus on developing video training on Primavera P6 products. We invited trainers and experts from around the world to contribute to our training as well.
In April 2015, PlannerTuts was rebranded as Plan Academy, a name that truly captures our core purpose: “To help drive excellence in project controls through content that educates, informs and inspires.”
The Plan Academy Team
Michael Lepage, Chief Learning Officer
Michael is the Founder of Plan Academy, and leads the day-to-day operations. Michael loves to train, lead live events & record training videos.
When he isn’t recording video tutorials or looking for lag in a Primavera P6 schedule, he’s probably chasing after his 2 boys or strumming his guitar. Fav team: Toronto Raptors
Reshma Sadhu, Customer Service
Reshma heads up Plan Academy’s customer service, but she’s really a jack of all trades. Her fingers are a blur on the keyboard and she’s the master of our marketing software.
Reshma loves to travel, when she can. She also has a slight Tim Hortons addiction. Fav TV show: The Good Place (for the moment).
Evan Wakelin, Video Producer
Evan joined Plan Academy in April 2019 as our master of all things video. Evan spends his time either behind the camera or making amazing animations with Adobe tools.
Evan loves playing hockey in all its forms, watching any Chris Nolan movie and hanging out with his wife and son.
Gowtham Sunderarajan, Community Support Specialist
Gowtham is Plan Academy’s resident TA – he reviews and provides feedback on every student workshop submission. He’s also a project controller working with large comapanies & schedules.
Gowtham is an avid film maker in his spare time. He lives in Chennai, India.
Plan Academy has a large list of trainers, authors and collaborators in the field of Project Controls.
