Consulting Solutions
Expert Project Consulting
From Planning to Performance
Plan Academy PRO Plan
Leverage 15+ years of industry expertise to optimize your project schedules, controls, and team performance.
Trusted by Tomlinson, NKT, Count & Cooper, and Constellation.
The Challenges You're Facing
Schedule Delays & Cost Overruns
Your projects are falling behind and budgets are ballooning.
Skill Gaps in Your Team
Finding qualified schedulers is nearly impossible, and training takes too long.
Complex P6 Implementation
Primavera P6 is powerful but overwhelming without expert guidance.
You need more than training. You need hands-on expertise working alongside your team.
Our Consulting Services
Expert Scheduling Support
Get the right expertise, exactly when you need it.
Finding qualified Primavera P6 schedulers and project controls professionals is challenging. We place our scheduling experts directly into your team to support critical project milestones.
What We Provide:
- Expert Schedulers – Experienced professionals who can hit the ground running with Primavera P6, MSP, etc.
- Project Controls Specialists – Experts in cost management, risk analysis, and reporting
- Flexible Engagement Models – Short-term project support or long-term embedded resources
- Pre-Vetted Talent – Every professional in our network has proven expertise and industry credentials
Ideal For:
- Projects requiring immediate scheduling support
- Teams experiencing resource gaps or turnover
- Organizations scaling up for major initiatives
- Companies needing specialized P6 or project controls expertise
Strategic Consulting
Transform your project controls from a checkbox to a competitive advantage.
Your schedules and project controls processes should drive better decisions, not just document them. We audit your current state, identify gaps, and implement improvements that deliver measurable results.
What You Gain:
- Improved Schedule Quality – Reliable critical paths and realistic forecasts
- Better Decision-Making – Actionable insights from your project controls data
- Increased Efficiency – Streamlined processes that save time and reduce errors
- Stronger Teams – Upskilled staff who can maintain excellence long-term
Ideal For:
- Organizations struggling with schedule credibility or accuracy
- Companies implementing new project controls standards
- Teams transitioning to or optimizing Primavera P6
- Leadership seeking to professionalize their project controls function
Tool Adoption That Sticks
Implement Primavera P6 in a way your team will actually use - and leadership can trust.
Primavera P6 is powerful, but without the right setup, standards, and workflows, it quickly becomes inconsistent across projects and unreliable for decision-making. We help you implement or re-implement P6 (and related scheduling tools) so adoption sticks, reporting becomes comparable, and outputs are decision-ready.
What We Provide:
- Current-state audit of schedules, structure, and real-world usage patterns
- Standard setup guidance: WBS approach, calendars, coding, and progress rules
- Governance and workflow design (who does what, when, and how)
- Hands-on implementation support with your team (not just recommendations)
- Reinforcement through training resources so the new way of working holds
- Practical guidance for using AI within your scheduling and reporting workflows responsibly
- Support for adjacent tools in your stack (as needed) to improve visibility and performance
Ideal For:
- Organizations rolling out P6, cleaning up a messy system, or struggling with adoption
- Multi-project portfolios where schedules aren’t comparable across teams/projects
- Shared resource environments and mixed contractor/owner reporting structures
- Teams who have “P6 installed” but don’t trust the data enough to run the project from it
Custom Training
Build real scheduling capability with training tailored to your roles, tools, and project reality.
We design custom training and learning paths that close skill gaps, accelerate ramp-up, and create a shared baseline - so your team produces higher-quality schedules with less rework and more confidence.
What You Gain:
- Skills assessment and role-based learning roadmap (by planner/scheduler/PM/controls role)
- Custom workshops that blend theory with practical application
- Reinforcement through on-demand resources and frameworks
- Optional follow-up coaching and guided practice to ensure transfer to real work
- Alignment to your standards, tools, and reporting expectations (so training sticks)
Ideal For:
- Project Controls managers, PMOs, and L&D leaders responsible for capability building
- Teams with skill gaps, turnover, or a need to ramp new schedulers faster
- Organizations adopting new standards/tools with mixed experience levels
- Groups where quality varies by person and you need consistent outputs across the team
How We Do It - The Plan Academy Approach
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Strategic Recommendations
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Implementation & Training
1. Audit & Assessment
- Comprehensive review of existing schedules, processes, and systems
- Evaluation of team capabilities and organizational structure
- Identification of bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and risk areas
Why Plan Academy Consulting
Industry Authority
Access to our library of courses, resources, & learning frameworks
Practical Expertise
Our team stays with you along the way to hit your milestones
Training DNA
Your team can access all course materials for a full year
testimonials
What our clients say about us
When I started in 2016, we had a team of six planners, no indication on how to plan and everyone was delivering planning support to the project purely based on personal experience. Now we have 29 planners and growing. To make it work we had to streamline the way of planning and scheduling, starting with a standard WBS tailored for the cable business and a schedule management procedure.
The Plan Academy training platform has been key to raise the general planning and P6 knowledge level in my department and every new member gets enrolled in the trainings, either for refreshing knowledge or to start a new career as a planner.
By streamlining the way of working we are able to plan also on portfolio level, we ensure robust quality standards, gain control over our projects, and boost the confidence of our clients.
Alessandro Parisi
NKT Head of Project Planning
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frequently asked questions
Most engagements begin within 1-2 weeks of agreement.
Both! We offer flexible arrangements based on your needs.
We primarily serve the construction, engineering, oil & gas, infrastructure, energy, and aerospace industries - anywhere complex schedules matter.
Absolutely! Our Scheduling Experts meet you where you are and improve from there.