Practical Skills for Better Project Controls.
Mattis Academy teaches planning, scheduling and project controls the way they are practised on live construction projects. Software skills come with the judgment to use them.
Most software courses teach which buttons to press. Teams then struggle with what comes next: a baseline that won't hold, an update that hides slippage, or a critical path nobody trusts. The Academy closes that gap using the methods we apply on client projects.
Software training teaches the clicks. Mattis Academy teaches the judgment behind a schedule people can trust.
Built for every seat around the schedule.
Each course is pitched at the right level, from your first P6 project to reviewing schedules for the board.
New planners & schedulers
Engineers, graduates and career changers building a solid foundation in CPM and Primavera P6.
Working schedulers
Schedulers who want stronger updates, cleaner logic and analysis they can defend.
Project & construction managers
Leaders who need to read a schedule, challenge it and act on what it is telling them.
Owners & developers
Owner teams who review contractor schedules and need to spot risk before it reaches the milestone.
From software clicks to scheduling judgment.
Seven focused tracks. Take one on its own or combine them into a program for your team.
Primavera P6 for construction
Project setup, enterprise structures, WBS and activity coding, calendars, relationships, scheduling options, resources and layouts. Built around a construction project from start to finish, not generic exercises.
You will leave able to: build a well-structured P6 schedule from a blank project.
CPM fundamentals
Forward and backward pass, total and free float, relationship types, lags, leads and constraints, and how each choice changes the dates on the page.
You will leave able to: calculate and explain a critical path by hand and in software.
Baseline development
Turning contracts, drawings, procurement lead times and field input into a baseline that is complete, logical and realistic enough to manage against.
You will leave able to: produce a baseline that survives owner review.
Schedule updates & narratives
Data dates, progress capture, retained logic versus progress override, out-of-sequence work, validation checks and narratives that explain variance in plain language.
You will leave able to: run a clean monthly update and write the narrative that goes with it.
Critical path & float analysis
Critical path versus longest path, near-critical paths, float erosion and trends, and the scheduling settings that quietly change the answer.
You will leave able to: show which work is actually driving completion.
Schedule quality & health checks
Structural checks, the DCMA 14-point framework, and how to test realism beyond the metrics: durations, sequencing, resources and constructability.
You will leave able to: assess a schedule and rank what to fix first.
Project controls reporting & Power BI
Progress measurement, earned value basics, forecasting, and turning schedule and cost data into dashboards that executives, owners and site teams will actually use.
You will leave able to: build a controls report that supports decisions.
Learn it on a project, not a slide.
Every course runs on one realistic construction case study, so each new skill builds on the last, just as it does on site.
- 01
Concept
The principle behind each technique, explained in plain language with construction examples.
- 02
Hands-on build
Apply it straight away in the software, working on the course case study.
- 03
Real-world scenario
Work through what happens next: a late delivery, a design change, an out-of-sequence start or a slipping milestone.
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Review & feedback
Practitioners review your work the way an owner or reviewer would, and show you how to strengthen it.
Training that fits how your team works.
Open courses
Structured courses for individual professionals who want to build or sharpen their scheduling and controls skills.
Private team training
Courses delivered for your organisation and tailored to your projects, standards, software settings and reporting requirements.
Coaching & mentoring
Focused support for schedulers working on a live project, from building the baseline to defending an update.
Tell us what you want to learn.
Choose the tracks that interest you. We will come back with course details, formats and next available dates.