Project Management using Primavera P6

Course details

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1 - Introduction to this Course and Course Objectives
2 - Introduction to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
3 - An overview of Project Schedule Management
4 - Fundamentals of Project Management

• What is a Project?
• What is Project Management?
• Five Process Groups of Project Management
• Schedule and its Importance
• ritical Path Method for Scheduling
• Understanding a Gantt chart

5 - Introduction to Primavera Systems and Oracle
      Primavera P6 PPM
6- Primavera P6 Installation
7 - Primavera P6 Interface and Preferences
8 - Organizational Breakdown Structure
9 - Enterprise Project Structure
10 - Work Breakdown Structure
11 - Planning your Work Schedule
12 - Understanding a Sample Project
13 - Creating a New Project in Primavera P6
14 - Project Window Options
15 - Understanding Project Must Finish and Total Float
16 - Role of Calendars in Scheduling
17 - Understanding and Adding Calendars
18 - Project and Database Default Calendar
19 - Creating WBS in Primavera P6
20 - Understanding Percentage Complete Types
21 - Understanding Activity Types
22 - Setting Defaults for New Activities
24 - Estimating Duration of Activities
25 - Adding Duration of Activities
26 - Understanding Relationships
27 - Adding Relationships and Scheduling
28 - Understanding Scheduling Algorithm
29 - Scheduling Options
30 - Formatting Bars, Columns and Timescale
31 - Group, Sorts and Layouts
32 - Filtering in Primavera P6
33 - Printing, Exporting and Importing
34 - Reporting in Primavera P6
35- Understanding and Adding Baseline
36 - Updating a Project
37 - Assigning Baselines and Monitoring a Project
38 - Adding and Assigning New Currency
39 - Understanding Roles, Resources and Expenses
40 - Adding Resources
41 - Duration Types in Primavera P6
42 - Assigning Resources and Reviewing Resource Allocation
43 - Adding Expenses
44 - Developing Project Funding Requirements and Cost S-curve
45 - Updating a Project with Resources and Expenses

Course Topics:

• Project Management Life Cycle
• Understanding Data in P6
• Overview and Navigation
• Creating a Project
• Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
• Adding Activities
• Calendars
• Creating Relationships
• Scheduling
• Assigning Constraints
• Customizing Activity Views
• Understanding Roles and Resources
• Assigning Roles and Resources
• Project Workspace
• Optimizing the Project Plan
• Baselining the Project Plan
• Methods of Applying Progress
• Executing the Project Plan
• Analyzing the Updated Project
• Portfolios and Dashboards
• App A – Updating the Project Using Timesheets
• App B – Reporting

Learn To:

• Create a project
• Add activities
• Create relationships
• Assign and analyze resources
• Analyze project performance
• Execute and control the project
• Customize dashboards and the project workspace
• View reports

Course Objectives:

• Create a project
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure
• Add Activities
• Customize activity views
• Create Relationships
• Schedule the project
• Assign constraints
• View the Enterprise Project Structure
• Optimize the project schedule
• Assign roles and resources
• Analyze resources and cost
• Baseline the project plan
• Execute the project
• Customize dashboards
• Manage risk
• View reports

Learn Outcomes

• Add a Project to the Project Structure
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure
• Add Reference Documents
• Add Activities
• Add Steps and Roles to Activities
• Create Relationships
• Schedule a Project  Add Constraints  Organize Activities
• Assign Resources and Costs to Activities
• Analyze Resource/Cost Usage Optimize the Schedule
• Create and Monitor Thresholds ,Status the Project ,Analyze the Statused Project

Case Study 

Calculating Percent Complete

• Describe the three Percent Complete Types.
• Determine which Percent Complete Type to use based on how your organization reports progress.
• Explain how activity percentages are calculated based on the Percent Complete Type chosen.
• Use weighted steps to calculated Percent Complete.

Earned Value

• Define earned value.
• Define Performance Percent Complete.
• Review the results of different earned value techniques.
• Recognize the benefits of using earned value analysis.

Advanced Scheduling

• Calculate multiple float paths when scheduling.
• Explain the difference between scheduling logic options.
• Describe a calendar’s effect on lag.

User-Defined Fields and Global Change

• Create a user-defined field.
• Run a global change.

Managing Multiple Projects

• Filter and apply progress to multiple projects.
• Set the default project for multiple projects.
• Explain how project elements are handled in multi-project mode.

Updated on 10 March, 2019