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Project Management 102: Fire & Life Safety Systems Financial Controls, Schedule Management & Billing Mastery
Project Management 102: Fire & Life Safety Systems Financial Controls, Schedule Management & Billing Mastery
Most fire alarm project managers learn billing the hard way — a rejected pay app, a stored material line they forgot to include, a change order they never wrote. PM 102 is built to close that gap before it costs you.
This is a full-day, instructor-led course covering the financial and operational tools that separate project managers who survive from the ones who thrive. No prerequisites required. If you're managing fire alarm projects and want to get sharper on the business side of the work, this course is for you.
What You'll Learn
Gantt Charts & Schedule Management Build a project schedule that actually works — not one that lives in a drawer. You'll learn how to construct a realistic schedule, identify your critical path, manage float, and document delays in a way that protects your time extension rights.
Schedule of Values & AIA G702/G703 Walk through a real SOV line by line. Understand what the G702 cover page is telling the GC and how the G703 continuation sheet supports every dollar you're billing. Learn the mistakes that delay payment and the ones that leave money on the table.
Milestone Tracking & Billing Integration Your schedule and your billing have to tell the same story. This module shows you how to tie project milestones directly to billing events so you never miss a cycle and never leave earned revenue sitting unbilled.
Financial Controls & Cash Flow Job cost, change orders, retainage — the three financial levers most field-promoted PMs were never taught. You'll learn how to read a job cost report, write and track change orders, and know exactly what it takes to release retainage at closeout.
Advanced PM Tools The skills PM 101 doesn't cover: notice requirements and contract deadlines, managing multiple active projects without dropping one, how to structure difficult conversations with GCs and owners, lien rights and waiver types, RFI discipline, meeting management, and professional development pathways in fire and life safety.
Hands-On Billing Exercise You'll work through a complete billing scenario — a real fire alarm replacement project mid-stream — calculating earned value, applying retainage, and completing a G702 summary from scratch. The answer key gets walked through as a group, with discussion on the errors most PMs make without realizing it.
What's Included
Full-day instruction (approximately 8 hours with breaks)
Participant reference guide — a printed, section-by-section field document you'll use long after the course
Hands-on billing exercise with answer key
CEU credit (where applicable — confirm with your hosting organization)
Format
PM 102 is available both in-person and virtually via live online session. Pricing varies by format and group size. Contact us for individual registration dates, group rates, or association licensing inquiries.
Who This Is For
Fire alarm and life safety project managers who came up through the field and are ready to own the business side of their projects. No prior PM coursework required.
Instructor
Joseph Cervantes brings nearly 30 years of fire and life safety experience to every course — field operations, project management, operations leadership, and code consulting. He built this curriculum because the training he needed early in his career didn't exist. It does now.
Project Management 102: Fire & Life Safety Systems Financial Controls, Schedule Management & Billing Mastery
Most fire alarm project managers learn billing the hard way — a rejected pay app, a stored material line they forgot to include, a change order they never wrote. PM 102 is built to close that gap before it costs you.
This is a full-day, instructor-led course covering the financial and operational tools that separate project managers who survive from the ones who thrive. No prerequisites required. If you're managing fire alarm projects and want to get sharper on the business side of the work, this course is for you.
What You'll Learn
Gantt Charts & Schedule Management Build a project schedule that actually works — not one that lives in a drawer. You'll learn how to construct a realistic schedule, identify your critical path, manage float, and document delays in a way that protects your time extension rights.
Schedule of Values & AIA G702/G703 Walk through a real SOV line by line. Understand what the G702 cover page is telling the GC and how the G703 continuation sheet supports every dollar you're billing. Learn the mistakes that delay payment and the ones that leave money on the table.
Milestone Tracking & Billing Integration Your schedule and your billing have to tell the same story. This module shows you how to tie project milestones directly to billing events so you never miss a cycle and never leave earned revenue sitting unbilled.
Financial Controls & Cash Flow Job cost, change orders, retainage — the three financial levers most field-promoted PMs were never taught. You'll learn how to read a job cost report, write and track change orders, and know exactly what it takes to release retainage at closeout.
Advanced PM Tools The skills PM 101 doesn't cover: notice requirements and contract deadlines, managing multiple active projects without dropping one, how to structure difficult conversations with GCs and owners, lien rights and waiver types, RFI discipline, meeting management, and professional development pathways in fire and life safety.
Hands-On Billing Exercise You'll work through a complete billing scenario — a real fire alarm replacement project mid-stream — calculating earned value, applying retainage, and completing a G702 summary from scratch. The answer key gets walked through as a group, with discussion on the errors most PMs make without realizing it.
What's Included
Full-day instruction (approximately 8 hours with breaks)
Participant reference guide — a printed, section-by-section field document you'll use long after the course
Hands-on billing exercise with answer key
CEU credit (where applicable — confirm with your hosting organization)
Format
PM 102 is available both in-person and virtually via live online session. Pricing varies by format and group size. Contact us for individual registration dates, group rates, or association licensing inquiries.
Who This Is For
Fire alarm and life safety project managers who came up through the field and are ready to own the business side of their projects. No prior PM coursework required.
Instructor
Joseph Cervantes brings nearly 30 years of fire and life safety experience to every course — field operations, project management, operations leadership, and code consulting. He built this curriculum because the training he needed early in his career didn't exist. It does now.