Power BI for Planning Engineers in Project Control

We've helped numerous planning engineers with project management & project control training. This course will help you prepare progress reports in a few seconds, analyze progress with a click of a button, and much more.

Ideal for Planning Engineers who have project control experience. NOT Suitable for beginners in project control.

Watch the below video for what to expect from the "Power BI in Project Control" Course

"Great Practical Content, and believe it or not, you can really do Magic with Power BI in Project Control! Thanks Osama for the great comprehensive training course which is direct to the point and provides a clear concept of how to use Power BI in the Project Control field."
Ahmed Qamary
Senior Planning Engineer, Qatar
"I'm excited to share that I have successfully completed Mr. Osama Saad 's Power BI in Project Control Course. It's been an incredible learning experience and I am absolutely certain that it will greatly benefit not only myself, but it is going to be a game-changer for my fellow planning engineers as well. Thank you for your unwavering dedication, Mr. Osama!"
Alexandrea Lean Galvez
Planning Engineer, UAE

In this program, I helped hundreds of engineers...

Osama Saad
  • DEVELOP interactive, beautiful and eye-catching dashboards.
  • PREPARE weekly and monthly reports in few seconds.
  • ANALYZE progress and complete reports with a click of a button.
  • AUTOMATE project control tasks.
  • ENSURE the accuracy of your reporting.
  • SHOW beautiful dashboards in your CV and get shortlisted for vacancies.
  • MASTER Power BI skills to stand out from competition.
  • IMPRESS your colleagues and project parties with professional and accurate reports.
  • UNLOCK better career opportunities.


Who is this course for?

  • Experienced Planning Engineers
  • OR
  • Our academy members who completed the "Practical Project Control" with us before.
  • The #1 challenge planning engineers face is not the lack of knowledge, it is the lack of time!
  • Do you spend a lot of time preparing progress reports manually?
  • Do you spend several hours working with data from multiple excel sheets?
  • Do you waste a lot of time revising the whole report when there is a change?
  • Do you constantly import numerous XER files or browse reports to find the information you need?
  • Do you waste time validating calculations loops and dealing with excel formulas errors?
  • Do you prepare progress presentations manually?
  • Do you spend a lot of time formatting reports?
  • Do you struggle with the workload and meeting deadlines?
  • Do you spend a lot of money on software and other project control solutions?
  • When these issues exist, you will:
  • Be unable to gain recognition as a knowledgeable and expert planning engineer in front of your management and clients.
  • Have no skills to stand out from the competition.
  • Focus less on things that are more important (e.g. correspondences and analyzing Subcontractors' performance).
  • Spend a lot of time preparing reports and presentations requested by management.
  • I get it. I was like you 15 years ago. Over the years, I learned a lot, made mistakes, and worked under pressure. While managing massive projects, I had to develop systems, tools, and methods to add value and deliver real RESULTS. What I teach inside the Power BI course is the result of years of hard work, trial and error, and continuous improvement.
  • But you don’t have to go through the same struggles. I’m here to provide you with step-by-step guidance on how to generate progress reports in seconds, analyze any project area with a click of a button, and automate tasks effortlessly.

Introducing

Power BI in Project Control

  • This course will help you achieve the following:
  • Complete progress reports in seconds.
  • Analyze any area in the project with a click of a button.
  • Have all planning work in one location under one layout using one tool.
  • Not worry about validating excel formulas errors or calculations every single time you prepare a report.
  • Connect your drawings with the progress data and present photos.
  • Not waste time importing several XER files or browsing reports to find the information that you need.
  • Extract data from the model and prepare a complete presentation in seconds.
  • Create systems and complete tasks on auto-pilot.
  • Create themes that save a lot of time on report formatting.
  • Impress stakeholders and build a powerful brand in front of clients.
  • Provide massive value to the team toward project success.
  • Have all the answers in a progress meeting immediately on the spot.
  • Show beautiful dashboards and a link to the interactive report in your CV to get shortlisted for vacancies.
  • Avoid preparing progress reports manually.
  • Not worry about workload and meeting deadlines.
  • Show supreme competencies and skills.
  • Gain recognition by your team and stakeholders as a planning engineer who is knowledgeable and expert.
  • Acquire superior planning skills.
  • Develop a strong data analytics mindset that will help you solve future problems and set you up for success.
  • Do all of the above using a FREE software service.

It takes less than 30 seconds to have everything updated inside Power BI after you complete your schedule update. The course is for planners who use ANY scheduling software (not necessarily P6)

"I’ve obtained a new certification: Power BI in Project Control. Thank you to Osama for all the support and great lectures. Really the best out there so relevant to what we do in the construction industry."
Neil Lewis
Planning Engineer, UK
"The Power BI course from Smart PM Training is very impressive and useful for the Project Control. I understand that it is inevitable in Project Control now. It helps minimize time while producing dashboard reports and all comprehensive reports in visual. The course is well structured and well explained. Although it is intensive, the way it is explained makes us much more attentive and not deviated."
Gani Muhammed
Project Control Engineer, KSA

Here is the thing…

  • There are thousands of engineers competing for the same job. With average skills, you’ll only get average career opportunities. To stand out from the competition, it’s essential to acquire practical skills and knowledge that help you add real value and differentiate yourself.
  • Learning Power BI is easy, but applying it to project control is a real challenge. I took four different Power BI courses and made countless mistakes before everything finally clicked.
  • The most valuable training I received was from a Microsoft Certified Analyst. Most engineers are unfamiliar with the data analytics principles that Power BI is built upon.
  • A specialized step-by-step program that guides you through the foundations of data analytics, features of Power BI and its applications in project control is THE most cost and time effective way to take fully leverage the software.

Course Curriculum

  • Introduction to Power BI and Data Analytics

  • How does Power BI process data?
  • Explain data tables and data models.
  • Best practices for activity codes in project control.
  • Snowflakes Schemas using Power BI.
  • Primary and Foreign Keys in project control.
  • Principles of data normalization.

  • Creating database and Power Query

  • Creating a project control database for Power BI.
  • Project Control Database checklist.
  • Power Query tutorials for Planning Engineers to transform data.

  • Transform data with Power Query and Data Model relationships

  • Transforming Project Control data with Power Query.
  • Adding Project Control Data Model Relationships.

  • Earned Value, Measures, Cards, Themes and Progress Curve

  • Earned Value in Project Control.
  • Adding Measures.
  • Card Visualization for Planning and Project Control.
  • Color wheel in project control.
  • Import themes and color customization for Planning Engineer's reports.
  • Progress Curve in Project Control.

  • Conditional Formatting, Planned vs Actual and Activity % Trend Visualizations

  • Conditional Formatting in Power BI for Planning Engineer's reports.
  • Gauge visualization for Planned vs Actual in project control.
  • Pie Chart visualization.
  • Table Visualization for Planned vs Actual.
  • Types of Slicers for project control reporting.
  • Cross Filter Direction for project control reporting.
  • Bar Chart visualization for Planned vs Actual.
  • Activity % and Earned Value Trend Visualization for Planning Engineer's applications.

  • Variance and Trend Analysis, Matrix and Gantt Chart

  • Project delay trend chart.
  • Cost variance trend chart.
  • Breakdown analysis with Treemap visualization.
  • Breakdown analysis with Decomposition tree in Project Control.
  • Matrix Visualization for Planning Engineers to report progress.
  • Gantt Chart in Power BI for Planning Engineers.

  • Bookmarks and Connect Drawings

  • Create bookmarks and selections to optimize space.
  • Install Inkspace to create SVG.
  • Add Synoptic visual inside Power BI.
  • Develop interactive project control reports with project drawings as a Planning Engineer.

  • Publish reports, connect P6 with Power BI and other visualizations

  • Create free emails to sign in Power BI.
  • Publish Power BI reports.
  • Connect Power BI with P6 database.
  • Planning and Project Control KPI indicators.
  • Ribbon, Donut and Area Charts.
  • Key Influencers.
  • Funnel Chart and Multi-row Cards.
  • Waterfall and Stacked Column Chart.

  • Interactive Dashboards with Advanced Excel

  • Pivot tables and Power Pivot for project control.
  • Build data model with relationships.
  • Develop interactive project control dashboards.

  • Append queries and import recovery programs

  • Append queries from folder for project control reporting.
  • Import recovery programs to Power BI.

How is this program different?

  • This course goes beyond just explaining Power BI features—it shows you how to apply them effectively in Project Control as a Planning Engineer.
  • You won’t just learn Power BI software—you’ll also master key data analytics principles such as cardinality, cross-filter direction, primary and foreign keys, and data normalization. These fundamentals will enable you to build effective project control models that minimize errors.
  • The course also covers the mechanisms of Power BI software and the process of data analysis. It teaches planning engineers how to think like Power BI, enabling them to effectively interpret and utilize data.
  • You will also receive templates that will simplify your project control task workflow and make your work much more efficient.
  • JSON themes are also included, saving you hours of formatting work and streamlining your process.

You may feel alone. But you no longer have to do it alone. You'll get

Power BI Tutorials for project control ($1,000 Value)

Understand Power Query, Relationships and Visualizations.

Data Analytics Training for Planning Engineers ($500 Value)
Data normalization, snowflake schemas, cross filter direction, cardinality and primary and foreign keys.
12 Live Q&A Zoom Sessions ($600 Value)
Ask questions, clarify doubts and learn from others’ questions.

Private community membership ($700 Value)

Network with like-minded planning engineers, ask questions and clarify doubts.
BONUS# 1: Advanced Excel for planning Engineers ($500 Value)
Pivot Tables, Power Pivot and Interactive Dashboards in Excel.

BONUS# 2: Templates ($400 Value)

Ready templates to make your work a lot faster.

BONUS# 3: Themes ($400 Value)

JSON files that you can upload and have professional designs in seconds.

BONUS# 4: Lifetime access to the course ($400 Value)

Access the course anytime in future to refer any tutorials that might help you at work.

Total Value: $4,500

Program Price: $699

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5 days money-back guarantee
If you are not satisfied with the course, request a refund within 5 calendar days of your purchase and I will honor the request. That’s how confident I am about my courses. You will be blown away by the training. You can try the course risk-free to understand if it is the type of training you’re looking for, and if not, get 100% of your money back.

You may feel alone. But you no longer have to do it alone. You'll get

Detailed Power BI Explanation for project control

Understand Power Query, Relationships and Visualizations.

Data Analytics Training for Planning Engineers

Data normalization, snowflake schemas, cross filter direction, cardinality and primary and foreign keys.

BONUS# 1: Advanced Excel for planning Engineers

Pivot Tables, Power Pivot and Interactive Dashboards in Excel.

BONUS# 2: Templates

Ready templates to make your work a lot faster.

BONUS# 3: Themes

JSON files that you can upload and have professional designs in seconds.

How much does it ACTUALLY cost you?

  • The course price is just a fraction of what a master's degree would cost. Moreover, academic degrees won’t teach you how to develop baselines in line with contract requirements, update schedules using best practices, create progress curves, generate comprehensive reports, or deliver client-ready presentations for progress meetings. Employers are seeking professional planning engineers with practical knowledge who can get the job DONE.
  • The course price might be equivalent to one week's salary or two months' salary for you—but it could be the best investment you’ve made in yourself so far. It will drastically shorten your career development timeline, equip you with top-tier skills, and unlock better career opportunities for years to come. In the long run, average skills and lack of knowledge will cost you more. This course truly pays for itself.


Osama Saad

MBA, PMP, PSP, CCP, PMI-SP

Confusion, hard work, frustration and making many mistakes.

I desperately needed someone to tell me “do this, then this.” so with 15 years of experience in large construction projects behind me (and the scars to prove it)…teaching you a simpler way of project control has become something I truly enjoy.

But after teaching thousands of engineers, here is my ultimate goal.

Help you learn the core foundations and understand why we do everything the way it is done.

Teach a proven step-by-step process that is based on both science and logic.

Have the confidence and knowledge to engage in arguments, add value to your project and pass interviews.

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