KonradBeck has launched Rising Controls Professionals, a year-long mentoring program for emerging and small project controls firms and for early-career schedulers and cost analysts. Each participant is paired with a KonradBeck practitioner who builds, reviews and defends schedules and cost forecasts on live programs.
Why we started it
Capital programs across the country need more people who can build a sound CPM schedule, read a cost report and tell an owner the truth. The supply has not kept up. Many talented schedulers learn the software on the job and never learn the discipline behind it: why logic matters more than dates, why a baseline is a contract, why a forecast has to be defended line by line.
Small controls firms face a different gap. They can do the work, but they lose pursuits because their reporting, quality checks and documentation do not yet look like a firm an owner can trust with a nine-figure program. We would rather open that door than watch good people stay on the wrong side of it.
We are not teaching anyone to click buttons in Primavera P6. We are teaching the habits that make a schedule something an owner can bet on.
Yusuf Balogun, Founder & CEO, KonradBeck
What the program covers
The curriculum follows the life of a controls engagement, from the first baseline to the final claim. Sessions are led by the KonradBeck people who do that work every week.
- CPM scheduling fundamentals. Logic, relationships, calendars, constraints and the DCMA 14-point check, applied to real schedules, not textbook ones.
- Cost and earned value. Cost breakdown structures, CPI and SPI, estimate at completion and how to explain a variance to someone who did not ask for a lecture.
- Risk. Building a risk register that means something, running a Monte Carlo QSRA and reading P50 and P80 results without overselling them.
- Delay and change. Time impact analysis, windows analysis and the contemporaneous records that make entitlement provable later.
- Reporting and business fundamentals. Writing the monthly executive report, building a quality review process and preparing a firm to pursue larger work.
Each participant also gets one-on-one mentoring sessions through the year. Where clients agree, participants may sit in on schedule reviews and risk workshops to see the work from the inside.
How to get involved
Rising Controls Professionals is open to small, emerging and disadvantaged controls firms and to schedulers and cost analysts early in their careers. Completing the program does not guarantee work with KonradBeck, but graduates leave ready to join our associate bench or pursue programs on their own. Interested firms and individuals can reach us through the contact page to be considered for the next cohort.
