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Courses
Featured courses
MAC-CMA-1020
Contract Management Masterclass: From Contract Formation to Final Closeout
Every dollar your organization spends flows through a contract. And every contract that goes wrong — the blown estimate, the silent scope creep, the claim nobody saw coming — costs…
35:58:51·advanced
SKV-PAS-1010
Schedule Compression: Time-Cost Tradeoffs and Recovery Strategies
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Projects rarely lose time because the schedule itself is wrong. More often, the challenge comes when a project must finish earlier than planned—or recover time already lost. At tha…
00:53:23·intermediate
LDV-DCM-1090
Build the Owner Team That Can Run the Job
About this course Six months before the authorisation gate, the project director walks her owner team and finds one seat that matters most standing empty — operations. The engineer…
03:33:01·advanced
CER-AAC-1010
Certified Cost Professional (CCP) Prep Course
Master all 34 chapters of AACE International's Skills & Knowledge of Cost Engineering, 6th Edition — from cost elements through risk management and the SI system.
38:02:26·intermediate
From the desk
Latest blogs
Decide the Question First: Framing Before Choosing on Large Capital Projects
Large capital projects rarely lack analysis; they often lack agreement on what is being decided. This blog explains why naming and owning the decision question must come before choosing among options, and how leaders can tell a wrong problem from a wrong estimate or a contested context.
October 23, 2026·23 min read
Search, Sprint, Ramp Up: How Large Capital Project Decisions Actually Unfold
Large capital projects are decided long before ground is broken. This article traces how decisions unfold across search, sprint and ramp-up, and what sponsors and owners can do to make projects worth building, not just built.
October 22, 2026·19 min read
How You Contract Is How You Govern: Rethinking Risk Transfer on Large Capital Projects
Risk on large capital projects is rarely transferred away; it is priced, shared or hidden. This blog explains why contract strategy is a governance decision and how sponsors can allocate risk, design incentives and build governability that holds when surprise arrives.
October 22, 2026·18 min read