This Special Limited Time Early Bird Offer Will End in

Have you ever been tasked with creating a weekly or monthly project status report? 

Ever felt overwhelmed spending countless hours consolidating data from various sources for every project status report, starting from scratch each time?

As a project/ program manager, project controls professional, project planner/ scheduler, cost estimator, cost controller, or project analyst, you want to reduce the amount of time in consolidating data and producing project status reports. This way, you can spend more time in analysis and improving the project performance, right?!

But you probably know that majority of project reports take days, if not weeks, from the time you gather and consolidate data to when you generate reports, because ….

• Updated project data needs to be pulled from various sources
• With tons of emails flying around with the latest changes to the data files, tracking and incorporating changes is a challenge
• Separate spreadsheets and reports are created to track the cost and schedule status and performance of each individual project.  It is hard to track changes; incorrect formulas can go unnoticed in the maze of spreadsheets.
• Manual data crunching to generate reports is painful and very time-consuming. It leaves little time to perform analysis and improve performance.

But could we do things faster and smarter in terms of data wrangling and reporting?

What if we 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!

The use of Power BI can transform your project reporting, visualization, and analysis and save you a ton of time in regenerating the reports.

Despite the huge benefits that every project will gain by utilizing Power BI, there is only a small group of project professionals who have leveraged Power BI in their project reporting and analysis?

Why? 

Because many might think Power BI is…

❌ Too complicated, which needs programming skills and/or SQL query language knowledge

❌ Expensive, not affordable for small/medium companies

❌ Replacing existing project control software

❌ Cannot be integrated with internal or external systems

Here is probably what you might not know about the Power BI:

1. POWER BI is a NEW Technology!

Power BI is a robust cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI) service by Microsoft, which was first released to the general public on July 24, 2015. So, it’s fairly new. That’s why many may have not yet been exposed to its power.

You can get ahead of the curve if you learn how to leverage Power BI in your project reports and data analytics.

2. POWER BI does NOT need Programing Language Knowledge!

With little or NO experience in software development, you can build insightful dashboards, automate your project controls reporting process, and get the most out of your enterprise data.

The issue is that not everyone knows how to tap into Power BI and getting started.

3. POWER BI is FREE!

Power BI is an open-source business intelligence service by Microsoft that offers a free version of the platform with a 1 GB data capacity limit.

There are some paid PRO user features (with a very little investment) but it is most likely you won’t need them until you are well advanced with the platform.

So, there is literally NO COST to install Power BI and reap its rewards in expediting and enhancing your project reports. 

4. POWER BI Complements existing Project Controls Software

Power BI is not going to replace project controls software. On the contrary, Power BI, fueled by project control tools and/or databases, will automate the reporting cycle and act as an integrator of all sources of information with consumer-tailored reports.

Use the power of BI technology to focus on forward-looking activities to improve project predictability, leverage multiple methods of capturing data, and bridge the gap between schedule and cost information by using your own dataset’s structure (in the way you collect them for your organization rather than reorganizing them to fit a rigid “integrated” project control tool).

Every project can and will benefit from Power BI.

And YOU can be the ONE who transforms your projects reporting process and provide real-time visibility into your projects’ status & performance!

✅  Automate your entire reporting cycle and tremendously reduce the amount of time in consolidating data and producing reports

✅  Prevent errors associated with manual data entry and consolidation

✅  Provide real-time visibility into your projects’ status

✅  Quickly identify project performance problems at the desired granularity level

✅  Spend more time in data analysis and flagging project issues 

What if you could have a “One-Click Reporting Tool” for Project Controls?

Sounds impossible?!!

Check below one of the interactive reports (Cost Estimate - Progress Analysis report) you will be able to create with Power BI:

Power BI has made the next level of automation for Project Controls reporting possible!

However, not everyone knows how to tap into Power BI and getting started.

That’s why we have developed the most practical and step-by-step training program in Power BI as it applies to Project Controls.

The good news is that we have developed the most practical and comprehensive online training on the application of Power BI in Project Controls.

In simple words, this training will take you from A to Z in utilizing Power BI to crack on any data source or any project control tool in the market.

The principles shared in this training will allow any project professional, with little or no experience in software development, build insightful dashboards and get the most out of their project portfolio data.

This course will highly benefit all project controls professionals who are keen on making the leap to the next level of seamless automation in Project Controls.

The series of the modules in this comprehensive applied course is designed to provide you accelerated learning in every facet of project controls reporting, from connecting your cost estimate to Power BI to connecting your P6 schedule to Power BI, so you can create real-time dashboards for all sorts of project controls reports.

Rather than getting overwhelmed with theory and abstract ideas, you’ll get engaged in detailed case studies that mimic real-life projects and help you navigate through various ways you can connect your project cost and schedule data to Power BI.

The combination of real-life examples and practical case studies throughout the course allows you to gain hands-on experience in the design and construction of Project Controls dashboards in Power BI.

PowerPoint slides together with Cost Estimate, Primavera P6, and Power BI modeling outcomes will be provided as a bonus for your future reference.

At every stage, the course instructor will be available to answer your questions and suggest solutions to problems.

This applied course provides you with tools and techniques to streamline your project reporting process and create interactive, immersive dashboards and visual reports!

The Power BI Visual Data Analytics for Project Controls online training course spans over 10 sessions.

Each session will introduce you to the key skills and knowledge of Power BI and Data Analytics within the context of an applied project controls use case: prepare, model, visualize, and analyze the data and deploy and maintain deliverables.

Every week, two sessions will be conducted LIVE on Wednesdays and Fridays. Each session takes about 2-3 hours, making the course complete within 5 weeks. 

The tentative start date of the first live session is September 1^st, 2021, and the planned completion of the course is October 1^st, 2021.

Here is the course agenda and what is covered in each week of the program:

To access the training, all you need is a high-speed Internet connection via Google Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer 9 or newer. You also need a login ID & Passcode to our private and secure learning management system (LMS), which is provided to you via email once you enroll.

LMS and the live streaming platform we use will be accessible via desktop computer, laptop, as well as mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Tablets, etc.

It is recommended that you attend each training session live. However, if you have a schedule conflict, you can catch up with the program by watching the recorded session(s) in Project Control Academy’s Learning Management System.

If you follow the program according to the live training schedule, you will be able to finish the course within 5 weeks. However, you have access to the entire course material for one year after your enrollment. You can refer back to the course videos and material at any time.

Power BI is becoming one of the most used tools on the market for all industries.

The “problem” is that it is too hard to find qualified professionals with a background in data analytics and project controls, so this is the BEST TIME to learn Power BI, grow professionally and be able to choose where to work.

Upon completion of the course, you will successfully master advanced project controls analytics using Power BI and will be able to implement this knowledge immediately in your day-to-day work.

To be more specific, below are some of the expected learning outcomes that you’ll gain upon the completion of this course:

📈 LEARN how to build your data models in Power BI Desktop, so you can automate your data workflows (data wrangling) and gain deeper insights into your project performance instantly.

📈 LEARN how to publish your reports on Power BI Service (Datasets, Reports , and Dashboards), so you can share and communicate project performance with the project team using cloud-based interactive reports at the click of a button.

📈 SET UP your reporting architecture for Project Controls using Power BI to get better, faster, and deeper project analytics saving at least 50% of the time compared to the traditional way.

📈 AUTOMATE your reporting workflows using Power Query for automatic data transformation and the Power BI service for recurring and automatic data sources update, adding more visibility to project reports in a timely manner.

📈 LEARN advanced project controls design principles to produce high-impact visualizations and dashboards to address specific project needs that are sometimes impossible in MS Excel or simply too time-consuming to prepare. (Specific visualizations include: cost estimate Pareto and gap analysis, milestone trend analysis, float erosion, schedule integrity and quality, critical and near critical path assessment, S-curves, etc.)

📈 APPRECIATE various methods of obtaining P6 data in Power BI (Excel, XML, XER, SQL), so that you can formulate your own schedule KPIs.

📈 UNDERSTAND the steps to establish a direct connection from the P6 SQL database to Power BI, so that you can set up real-time dashboards to make better-informed business decisions.

Upon the successful completion of the training, you will also be granted an official certificate of completion and 35 Professional Development Units (35 PDUs o3 3.5 CEUs) that you can claim towards your professional accreditations.

Imagine yourself mastering advanced project controls analytics using Power BI!

Get instant insights from your P6 schedule data as shown in the interactive report below ( Schedule Summary):

Here are several key unique points about this training that you wouldn’t find in other similar training courses in the market:

➡️ The most comprehensive applied Power BI online course you will ever find in project controls, covering all facets of Project Controls reporting from cost to schedule and types of connection to data sources (XML, XER, SQL). It is dedicated to ANY project controls professional who is keen on creating real-time reports and perform data analysis efficiently.

➡️ The most hands-on training on Power BI as it’s applied to Project Controls! You will learn Power BI by solving real Project Controls problems through different case studies and acting as a BI Consultant. The course allows you to tackle the most challenging project controls reporting issues in half the time and with a high-impact solution that will mesmerize your colleagues.

➡️ Step-by-step implementation and guidance, which enable you to apply your learning in a project environment immediately and achieve a significantly more robust result.

➡️ Presented by a Microsoft Certified Data Analyst, a subject matter expert on Power BI and Primavera P6, and Project Controls practitioner, Jeancarlo Duran Maica, MBA, CCP™, PMP®, EVP™, Microsoft MCP©, who has extensive knowledge and experience in setting-up data, building interactive dashboards and running up-to-the-minute analytics using Power BI on a wide range of multimillion-pound projects.

➡️ Based on the training that the instructor has given to hundreds of project professionals, with little to no previous experience in Power BI. Upon the course completion, they all could build interactive real-time dashboards and automate their project reporting process. You should expect to obtain similar results.

➡️ Provides support. You can ask the instructor any relevant question during the live sessions as well as after the course is completed for one full year! Furthermore, you will get new training material and resources on a weekly basis to ensure your continuous learning.

➡️ Provides an official certificate of completion and 35+ Professional Development Units (PDUs or CEUs).

➡️ The most reasonable price for the course, according to the market research analysis of other courses in the market. You will get the most value for the money invested.

This training is for you if…

✔ You are a Project Controls professional who is interested in automating, accelerating, and enhancing your Project Controls reporting process, developing real-time dashboards and visual reports, and spending more time in data analytics.

✔ You are a project Planner/Scheduler who is keen on getting the most out of your scheduling software like Primavera P6 to communicate key insights to team members without the need of using PDF or MS Excel.

✔ You are a Cost Controller, who wants to save time in generating cost reports, provide meaningful insights on your project cost data and present them via powerful interactive visual reports and dashboards that allow the project team to drill down and interrogate the data further.

✔ You are a Cost Estimator who wants to break down and present your cost estimate in a well-organized and impactful manner by providing automatic updates as the estimate evolves.

✔ You are a Project/ Program Manager who wants a real-time reporting solution that allows quick identification of project performance problems at the desired granularity.

✔ You are a project leader who is interested in acquiring updated and practical knowledge in quantitative risk management to make informed decisions and guide the project in the right direction.

✔ You are a newbie in Project Controls and have little or no experience in Power BI & data analytics, and keen on getting up to speed with new technologies in visual data analytics and stand out from the rest of your colleagues.

✔ You have some experience with Power BI via trial and error, but you’d like to get formal training to brush up your knowledge or get practical guidance in the report design principles and building powerful interactive visual dashboards and STREAMLINE your project controls reporting process.

➡️ I have “No Experience” with Power BI or programing language  

No problem at all - The principles shared in this training will allow any project professional, with little or no experience in Power BI or software development, build insightful dashboards and get the most out of their project portfolio data.

➡️ I don’t have the Power BI software 

No worries. You can download the latest version of the Power BI software for free at www.powerbi.com

➡️ I use an in-house Project Controls Software for reporting   

Absolutely! Power BI is not here to replace the project control software you are currently using. On the contrary, Power BI, fueled by project control tools and/or databases, will allow you to automate your reporting cycle and integrate all sources of information with consumer-tailored reports.

As you know, aligning data between multiple source systems can become a real nightmare. Most of the project controls tools we use work independently in silos or do not share information across the systems.

Along with this lack of information communication, these systems are usually very rigid to manage to give that the only feasible solution is to manually extract data from them and compile the necessary information in Excel.

Use the power of BI technology allows you to leverage multiple methods of capturing data and bridge the gap between schedule and cost information by using your own dataset’s structure (in the way you collect them for your organization rather than reorganizing them to fit a rigid “integrated” project control tool).

This training is NOT for those who….

❌ Don’t have a Project Controls/ Project Management background.

❌ Enjoy spending long hours sorting out MS Excel formulas and errors and developing reports out of Excel.

❌ Are happy with their existing systems, project reporting structure, and reporting production time.

This course is intended for advanced project controls dashboarding and visual reporting with Power BI. However, there is no need to have previous Power BI experience (this course will take you from A to Z).

Having a project controls background is a plus, but not mandatory. This training course will take you step-by-step through different project controls case studies, allowing you to easily understand the requirements of each scenario. 

In this context, this training will provide extraordinary benefits for both Junior and seasoned Project Controls Professionals involved in a different array of disciplines such as estimating, planning & scheduling, cost control, and project management.

It is important to note that the course will include case studies using the Primavera P6 software. It is preferable that you are familiar with Primavera P6 software, so you can connect the schedule files (XER) to Power BI and create schedule dashboards and graphical reports.

Is Any Software Required for The Course Case Study?

To be able to get the most out of this training, it’s recommended that you install the following software, so you can follow along with the instructor and go through the course case studies:

• The latest version of Power BI software, which can be downloaded for free at powerbi.com
• Microsoft Excel standalone or as part of the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
• Primavera P6, preferably release R15 onwards [ you can download a 30-day trial Primavera P6]
• Notepad++ (free software)

When you register today, in addition to getting exclusive 12-month access to the Power BI Visual Data Analytics for Project Controls online training program, you will also get a 12-month complimentary service and bonus training.

The Value of the Training Program including its bonuses:

Over $9,000

Your investment:

Only $997 $897
For the entire training program and the bonuses

With a $997 $897 investment, you can begin your journey as an expert and be the one who stands out from the crowd. The return on this small investment will be substantial once you learn how to leverage new business intelligence technologies such as Power BI to streamline your project reporting process. You can tremendously reduce the time in consolidating data and producing reports, provide real-time visibility into project status, enhance project data analytics, and quickly identify project performance problems and mitigation strategies.

The return on investment (ROI) is definitely immeasurable.

Get ahead of the curve and impact your peers by producing automated project dashboards like the example below:

Instructor’s Journey in Mastering Power BI in Project Controls

Register now to discover how you can automate your project controls reporting process and create real-time dashboards at a click of a button with Power BI