THE PROJECT CONTROL HUB
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Barış Emre Özçelik Planning & Project Controls Lead · Civil Engineer · PMP®

Planning is not a
poster on the wall.

A written curriculum in project controls, for engineers who want to understand the job the way it works on site rather than the way it is described in a textbook. Schedule, cost, risk, contract, claims and reporting — one lesson a week, in order, free.

Written by a Planning & Project Controls Lead with eight years on nuclear, mining, port and high-rise projects.

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The curriculum

Eight tracks, published one lesson a week and read in order. Each one assumes the ones before it.

Complete Curriculum
01

Schedule Management

How to build a programme, defend it when it slips, and explain it to a room that does not want to hear it.

Complete · 27 weeks
02

Cost & Cash

Where the numbers come from — estimating, budgeting, measurement, and the cash that decides whether a profitable job survives.

Complete · 24 weeks
03

Risk

What has not happened yet: where the risks on a job actually come from, and what a probability is worth once somebody has to act on it.

Complete · 18 weeks
04

Contract Management

Where entitlement is won or lost long before anyone writes a claim — notices, the periods that kill them, and who the Engineer answers to.

In Progress
05

Claims & Delay Analysis

What the right you kept is actually worth: forensic delay methods, why they disagree, and float and concurrency in front of a tribunal.

Complete · 28 weeks
06

Reporting

Where every number in a report is born, who owns it, when it closes, and what breaks when nobody has defined any of that.

Complete · 26 weeks
07

Interfaces

What changes when a job has more than one contract and no single chain of command giving the instructions.

Complete · 17 weeks
08

The Life of a Project

The order the work actually arrives in, from the investment decision to the archive, and which record is born at each stage.

Starting soon · 36 weeks
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The Toolbox

The software, once the thinking is in place.

Excel for Project Controls

Build schedules, S-curves, EVM trackers, and progress reports in Excel — from scratch.

Planned

Primavera P6

The industry standard for project scheduling.

Planned

Power BI for Project Controls

Turn your P6 and Excel data into live dashboards.

Planned
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