Primavera P6 Professional

This training course provides the fundamentals of Primavera P6 Professional as used in engineering and construction. Because P6 is typically used as a stand-alone and often mobile system in this industry, the course bypasses the multiuser, enterprise functionality and cuts directly to what is needed to build and manage a robust construction/engineering schedule.

Business Analysts, Functional Implementer, Project Manager, End Users.

PRIMAVERA

01 - Introduction & Learning Objectives:

• The Project Management Life-cycle
• Initiating Process Group
• Planning Process Group
• Executing Process Group
• Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
• Closing Process Group
• Migration from Primavera Project Planner P3 to Primavera P6

02 - Getting To Know Primavera P6 Professional:

• P6 user interface and navigation
• Customizing the P6 views and layouts

03 - The Enterprise Project Structure (EPS):

• Understanding the purpose of the Enterprise Project Structure
• Modifying the Enterprise Project Structure

04 - Project Creation:

• Creating a new project
• Understanding the project status options
• Modifying project settings
• Creating and using project codes

05 - The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS):

• Preparation of a best-practice WBS
• Creating a WBS in P6
• Modifying the WBS elements

06 - Adding Activities:

• Activities and their attributes
• Activity types and their importance in building a schedule
• Creating new activities
• Creating and assigning activity codes

07 - Relationships And Constraints:

• Relationship types in P6
• Creating relationships
• Understanding the forward and backward pass and Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Applying constraints to activities
• Adjusting the duration and finish date of your project 08 - FORMATTING PROJECT DATA
• Modifying the grouping of project data
• Sorting data in a table
• Using filters to control the data displayed
• Modifying the appearance of the Gantt chart
• Modifying Timescales

09 - Resources & Costs:

• Creating resources
• Pricing resources
• Assigning resources to activities
• Working with the Resource Usage Profile and analyzing resource assignments

10 - Resource Analysis:

• Analysis overview
• Analyzing resource availability
• Mitigating resource overloads

11 - P6 Baselines:

• Understanding the principles of Baselining P6 project schedules
• Creating and assigning baselines
• Displaying baseline data in the Table and Gantt chart
• Understanding variance

12 - Progressing The Project:

• Understanding the P6 data date
• Updating activity progress information, actual dates and costs
• Using the Progress Spotlight feature
• Updating the project using the schedule feature
• Correcting issues in the schedule using Reflections for What-if analysis

13 - Reporting:

• Running reports from a layout
• Creating and running reports using the reporting wizard
• Modifying existing reports

14 - Integration:

• Integration between Primavera and Microsoft Excel

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