The Planning Pathway.

From Planner to Planning Director

4 modules · 16 lessons · about 2 hours · free, with a certificate at the end

What this pathway teaches.

Sixteen lessons across four modules, each closed out with a ten question exam. Pass at 80% to unlock the next module. Complete all four to earn your certificate.

Four modules, taken in order. A 10-question exam closes each one; you need 8 out of 10 to pass, retakes are unlimited, and the next module unlocks when you do. Finish all four and your certificate is issued in your name.

The modules

01

Foundations

The planner's toolkit reframed as leadership training: sequencing logic, honest progress reporting, critical path literacy and baseline discipline.

  1. Logic Before Software · about 7 minutes
  2. The Honest Programme · about 6 minutes
  3. Reading the Critical Path · about 8 minutes
  4. Records and the Baseline · about 6 minutes

Module exam: 10 questions, about 5 minutes.

02

Time, Money and Risk

How programme decisions drive commercial outcomes: prelims, delay and disruption, contractual programme obligations, float ownership and bid credibility.

  1. Prelims: The Price of Time · about 7 minutes
  2. Programme Under Contract: NEC and JCT · about 8 minutes
  3. Extension of Time and the Planner's Evidence · about 7 minutes
  4. Programme Certainty and the Bid · about 8 minutes

Module exam: 10 questions, about 5 minutes.

03

The Management Layer

The first step from producing programmes to running the planning function: leading other planners, reporting upward, peer influence and standardised methods.

  1. From Planner to Leading Planners · about 6 minutes
  2. Reporting Upward · about 7 minutes
  3. Planning Among Peers · about 7 minutes
  4. Building a Planning Function · about 7 minutes

Module exam: 10 questions, about 5 minutes.

04

Getting There

The route from planning manager to planning director: promotion versus move, credibility, the first ninety days and where the role leads next.

  1. Promotion or Move · about 7 minutes
  2. What Businesses Look For · about 7 minutes
  3. The First Ninety Days · about 7 minutes
  4. Common Failure Modes and What's Next · about 7 minutes

Module exam: 10 questions, about 5 minutes.

16 lessons between you and the next title.

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