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Planning Planet community, we want to hear from YOU.

We're building the 2025 State of Construction Scheduling Report—and your insight matters.

SmartPM is combining data from 70,000+ real project schedules with input from pros like you to create the industry’s most comprehensive scheduling benchmark. What’s working, what’s not, and where scheduling is headed.

The survey is short, anonymous, and takes less than 5 minutes.

Complete it by May 10th to:

• Get early access to the full report
• Be entered to win one of three $150 Amazon gift cards

Take the Survey Now...

Your input helps shape the future of scheduling!

Whether you’ve attended our previous bootcamp sessions or not—now’s the time to jump in.

ALICE Technologies recently launched, ALICE Plan, an innovative 2D visual planning software that enables you to:

• Visualise your schedule on your project drawings for effective spatial planning — all without the need for a 3D model
• Drag, drop, and sequence activities in real time — making planning easy and intuitive
• Review sequences in 2D with timelapse playback — improving stakeholder communication and alignment

To show you how this works, the ALICE team is hosting a webinar with a live demo walkthrough of ALICE Plan on Thursday, May 22nd at 8 am PST.

You are invited to join this upcoming session: please save your spot for the webinar here.

The session will also explore how visual planning paves the way for generative scheduling to enable teams to optimize projects for various objectives.

How can you turn complex project data into clear, actionable insights?

In this on-demand webinar, Cleopatra experts explore how Power BI can transform the way you manage, visualize, and optimize project controls data.

Watch the full session here...

Bringing capital project scope into shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages (STO) is no easy task. Misaligned timelines, unclear scope, and communication breakdowns often lead to delays and cost overruns.

Cleopatra Enterprise’s blog covers: 

• - Why CAPEX work is often scheduled during STO events.
• - Where things typically go wrong and how to get ahead of them.
• - Key areas that project and turnaround teams must align on for smoother integration.

Looking to sharpen your estimating skills in just 4 days? 

From May 12th to May 15th, join the Cost Estimating Essentials Course offered by the Cost Engineering Academy to gain the tools to deliver faster and more accurate estimates across all project phases. 

Here is what you'll get from the course: 

• A complete understanding of cost estimation fundamentals. 
• The ability to create reliable factor and detail estimates.
• Skills to structure estimate reports and validate third-party work.
• Techniques to estimate efficiently and improve project control.
• Insight into key cost drivers and risks to avoid budget overruns 

IAMTech's Turnaround Management Software, iPlanSTO, was built by people who’ve worked in process plants, high-hazard site environments, managed shutdowns, and understand the impact of when events go wrong.

Supporting customers in 27 countries throughout the globe, with our Turnaround Management Software, you benefit not only from our own experience, knowledge, and investment but also those of our global community of iPlanSTO users.

“Everything we build comes from first-hand experience, and listening to our end users,”

Click here to download our free eBrochure...

IAMTech Industry Interest:

In an era where many software companies start in a bedroom or boardroom, IAMTech’s origins are a little different — they began with superglue, plastic, and scale models of industrial plants (Read more).

To learn more about IAMTech's rich history and the milestones that have shaped us, watch our 50-Year Anniversary video on YouTube.

A superior alternative to the "most popular" software for us as planners?

Spider Project

Spider Project offers numerous unique functional features and is the only PM software that optimizes resource, cost, and material constrained schedules and budgets for projects and portfolios.

Check it out here...   Ask questions here...

Construction CPM Conference 2025 has concluded, but offers to our friends at Planning Planet to view recorded sessions here.

This is over 60 hours of accredited continuing education by software developers Oracle, Deltek and Elecosoft, as well as industry experts from around the world.

Thank you,
FRED