PRIMAVERA P6 Abu Dhabi

Course details

• Describe Primavera solutions
• Describe P6

• Review the relationship between Primavera and the Project Management Life Cycle
• Identify the five process groups in the Project Management Life Cycle

• Log in
• Open an existing project
• Navigate in the Home window and Activities window
• Open an existing layout
• Customize a layout
• Save a layout Enterprise Project Structure
• Describe the components that comprise the Enterprise Project Structure
• View the EPS

• Create a project
• Navigate in the Projects window
• View and modify information in Project Details

• Define a Work Breakdown Structure
• Create multiple levels of a WBS hierarchy Adding Activities

• Describe activity types
• Add activities
• Add a Notebook topic to an activity
• Add steps to an activity
• Assign activity codes to activities

• View a network logic diagram
• Differentiate between the four relationship types
• Create relationships in the Activity Network
• Create relationships in Activity Details

• Perform a forward and backward pass
• Describe float and its impact on a schedule
• Identify loops and open ends
• Calculate a schedule
• Analyze the scheduling log report

• Apply an overall deadline to a project
• Apply a constraint to an individual activity
• Add notebook topics to constrained activities
• Describe the available constraint types

• Describe the difference between a work product and a reference document to a specific criteria
• Create a document record
• Link the document record to a project document or work product
• Assign the project document to an activity or WBS

• Group activities according to a specific criteria
• Sort activities
• Apply a filter
• Create a filter

• Describe roles
• Views the roles dictionary
• Describe resources
• Identify the differences between labor, nonlabor and material resources
• View the resource dictionary

• Assign roles to an activity
• Assign rates on roles

• Assign resources by role
• Assign labor, non-labor, and material resources to activities
• Adjust Budgeted Units/Time for a resource
• Assign expenses to activities

• Display the Resource Usage Profile
• Format a profile
• Format the timescale

• Analyze schedule dates
• Shorten a project schedule
• Analyze resource availability
• Remove resource over allocation
• Analyze project costs

• Create a baseline plan
• Display baseline bars on the Gantt Chart
• Modify the bars on the Gantt Chart

• Describe several methods for updating the project schedule
• Use Progress Spotlight
• Status activities
• Reschedule the project

• Describe reporting methods
• Run a schedule report
• Create a resource report with the Report wizard
• Create a report using the current layout