Most planning advice online is written by people who left the field years ago — or never worked on a real project at all. This one isn’t. Everything shared here comes from schedules being built and defended right now, on some of the largest active infrastructure projects in the UK. Here’s why that distinction matters more than any certificate on your wall.
Theory is cheap. Live experience isn’t.
You can learn the buttons in Primavera P6 from a hundred tutorials. What you can’t learn from them is what happens when a 20,000-activity schedule starts fighting you — when logic loops appear, when the critical path jumps overnight, when a client demands a recovery plan by Friday. Those situations don’t show up in a textbook. They show up on site, and the planners who can handle them are the ones who command the roles and the rates.
The skill almost nobody has: TILOS
If you work on anything linear — rail, road, tunnels, pipelines — time-location scheduling in TILOS is the difference between a schedule that reflects reality and one that looks tidy on paper but falls apart on the ground. Very few planners have it on their CV, which is exactly why it’s worth having. It’s one of the clearest ways to separate yourself from a crowded field of P6-only planners.
What you’ll find here from now on
This blog is the new home for practical, field-tested planning content — short, useful posts on P6, TILOS, Microsoft Project, Power BI and the career moves that actually advance a planner. No filler, no recycled theory. Just what works, from someone still doing the work.
And the conversation continues inside the community, where planners from around the world swap problems and solutions in English and French. If you’re serious about levelling up, that’s where to be.
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