Planning, Scheduling & Cost Control with Primavera

Course details

The objective of this training course is to introduce the participants to Primavera 6® software for successful project management.

It examines how to use primavera for project planning,scheduling, and control. The course give background in the concept of project management processes

& Scheduling techniques will be covered. The Practical sessions will provide hands-on experience. Workshops create and track sample project from

planning phase till controlling phase (updating).

Who should attend?

Program Managers, Project Managers, and Planners/Schedulers who are or will be involved in the areas of engineering, production, construction, information technology.

Primavera 6® will give them very strong and successful tool for planning and managing their projects.

Course Outline:

Day 1

Introduction to Primavera

Project Management life cycle

Network planning

• Critical path method (CPM)
• Schedule calculations

Navigation

Setting up the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

Setting up the Organizational breakdown Structure (OBS)

Creating a new Project

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

• Creating WBS Hierarchy
• Adding WBS Elements and Assigning Properties

Working with Activities

• Activity Types
• Adding Activities
• Establishing Relationships

Day 2

Constraints Types

Working with Calendars

• Working with Calendars (Global, Project
• Create new project Calendars

Establishing Activity Codes

• Creating Activity Codes and Values
• Assigning Codes to activities

Maintaining a Project’s Document Library

• Adding/Deleting Work Products And Documents
• Assigning Work Products and Documents To Activities

Working with Layouts

Day 3

Grouping, Sorting Data

Filtering Data

Customizing Layouts

• Modifying Columns, Adjusting the Timescale, Formatting Gantt Charts

Produce bar chart reports

Produce schedule reports

Defining Resources and Roles

• Resources Overview
• Viewing and Adding Resources

Working with Cost Accounts and Project Expenses

• Setting Up a Cost Account Structure
• Adding Expenses and Entering Cost Information

Analyzing Resources and Costs

Producing Resource Usage Profile

Producing Resource Usage spreadsheet

Updating process

Day 4

Managing Baselines

• Creating and Maintaining Baselines
• Assigning Baselines to Projects

Updating

• Choosing a Method of Updating
• Record project progress

Scheduling Projects

Current vs. Baseline comparison report