Develop the skills employers expect and projects demand from capable Project Professionals.
Equip yourself with industry-ready skills that make you indispensable to employers.
You’ll understand each step of the planning process, making you confident to take charge.
Employers notice Planners who can think critically, solve problems, and drive projects forward effectively. Become that Planner!
Our courses focus on actionable skills that directly improve your project performance and career.
Principles of Project Planning Online Course
Choose the Skills You Need to Succeed in Project Controls
Your career depends on more than experience alone — it also depends on strong principles at international standards.
Choose Profactaplan courses that develop the practical skills employers expect and successful projects rely on.
You’ll learn clear principles, apply them through practical exercises, and gain confidence to contribute real value in your role.
Whether you’re starting out or strengthening existing skills, you can choose the training that supports your next career step.
When the software can't help, can you?
Is this training right for you?
What do you want this training to change for you?
Build Real Project Skills
Gain practical project controls knowledge you can apply immediately — not just software steps, but the principles that make your work useful and trusted on real projects.
Make My CV Stand Out
Show employers that you understand the principles behind planning and project controls — not just the tools — and that you’re serious about delivering value on projects.
Grow My Income
Build in-demand planning and control skills that strengthen your value in the workplace and support stronger salary negotiations or future opportunities.
Change My Career Direction
Whether you’re moving into project controls, or a more structured project role, this training helps you build the foundational knowledge to make that shift with confidence.
Position Myself for Advancement
Strengthen your understanding of project controls so you’re seen as someone who adds clarity, insight, and value — not just someone who follows software steps, but someone who understands the “why” behind the plan
Win My Next Project Opportunity
Improve your ability to add real value from day one, making you a stronger candidate for upcoming project or contract opportunities.
Real Stories of skill, confidence and Career Transformation
Could one of our courses be the turning point in your career?
Our Values
Empowering your path to Project success
To empower you to master Project Controls and achieve success in every project you take on
To provide you with practical, high-quality training that builds your skills, confidence, and career in project controls.
OUR STORY
Our groundbreaking course, “The Principles of Project Planning” has been making waves as the first ever training for project planning professionals in South Africa at its launch in 2012.
It then made waves when it became available as an online course, making it accessible for you, anywhere, anytime!
Now, we’re working on a few more trailblazers, to grow your skills even further!
Watch this space as more courses will be coming your way.
Start your journey today—click below to explore the course that started it all.
Why Project Controls is one of the smartest
skills you can build:
Project controls gives you the ability to see problems before they explode. Instead of reacting to delays and cost overruns, you learn how to forecast outcomes early and influence decisions while there’s still time to act.
When you can explain schedule logic, critical paths, resource impacts, and performance trends in plain language, you don’t just report data — you shape decisions. That’s when you move from “support role” to trusted advisor.
Strong project controls skills give you defensible schedules, traceable logic, and auditable updates. When things go wrong — and they will — you’re backed by data, not assumptions
Planning and controls skills are highly transferable. Infrastructure, energy, construction, manufacturing, capital projects — the fundamentals travel with you, opening doors to better roles, better pay, and global opportunities.
Instead of living in last-minute updates and panic meetings, you learn how to structure work, sequence activities logically, and manage change systematically. Less noise. More control. Better work-life balance.
As projects grow larger, faster, and more data-driven, organisations need people who understand how planning, resources, performance, and risk fit together. Project controls isn’t just a skill — it’s long-term career insurance.
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now”
– Allan Lakein –
Message from our founder
"I will teach you all I know, but it will make me happiest if you go far beyond that"
Founder
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