Primavera P6 EPPM R8.x Fundamentals
Duration: 3 Days
Prerequisites: Basic project management and scheduling knowledge. No previous experience working with Primavera P6 R8.x necessary. Previous experience with other project scheduling tools an advantage but not required.
Course Description : This course covers all the fundamentals of using Primavera P6 Rel 8.1 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM). Through a series of lectures, interactive sessions and hands-on exercises, participants will gain the knowledge and experience they need to use P6 EPPM as an effective project management tool.
Course Contents
Chapter 1: Navigation
- Primavera P6 overview
- An introduction to Primavera P6
- Logging In
- Dashboards, Portfolios, Projects and Resources Tabs
- Project Workspaces
- Navigating the Project Pages
- Chapter summary
Chapter 2: Project Structures
- Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
- Modifying the EPS
- Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
- Chapter summary
Chapter 3: Project Creation
- Project creation overview
- Project Calendars
- Working with calendars
- Creating a new project
- Chapter summary
Chapter 4: The Work Breakdown Structure
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) overview
- Defining a WBS
- Modifying the WBS
- Chapter summary
Chapter 5: Adding Activities
- Activities overview
- Describing an Activity and its attributes
- Working with Activity Types
- Adding Activities
- Understanding Duration Types
- Assigning Activity Codes
- Chapter summary
Chapter 6: Relationships and Constraints
- Relationships overview
- Relationship Types
- Creating Relationships
- Performing a Forward and Backward Pass
- Apply a Constraint to an Activity
- Critical Path Method
- Modifying the Project Duration
- Chapter summary
Chapter 7: Formatting Project Data
- Formatting overview
- Grouping
- Sorting
- Filtering
- Chapter summary
Chapter 8: Roles and Resources
- Resources and Roles overview
- Describing Roles and Resources
- Assigning Roles to an Activity
- Assign Rates on Roles
- Assigning Resources
- Analyzing Resource Assignments
- Chapter summary
Chapter 9: Analysis, Risks and Issues
- Analysis overview
- Working with Check Schedule
- Adjusting the Project Schedule
- Analyzing Resource Availability
- Entering Risks
- Entering Issues
- Chapter summary
Chapter 10: Baselines
- Baselines overview
- Creating a baseline
- Working with baselines
- Chapter summary
Chapter 11: Progressing the Project
- Project execution overview
- Status update methods
- Using Progress Spotlight
- Progressing activity status
- Rescheduling the Project
- Chapter summary
Chapter 12 – Reporting and Exporting
- Printing and Print Preview
- Publishing Activities
- Export and Importing