Using Primavera P6 Professional In The Real World
Duration: 3 Days
Prerequisites: Basic project management and scheduling knowledge. No previous experience working with Primavera P6 Professional Rel 8.x necessary. Previous experience with other project scheduling tools an advantage.
Course Description: This course covers all the fundamentals of using Primavera P6 Professional Rel 8.x. Through a series of lectures, interactive sessions and hands-on exercises, participants will gain the knowledge and experience they need to use P6 Professional as an effective project management tool.
Course Contents
Lesson 1: Navigation
- Primavera P6 overview
- An introduction to Primavera P6
- Understanding the benefits of true Enterprise Project Management systems
- Logging In
- Understanding the Views and Layouts
- Customizing Layouts
- Lesson summary
Lesson 2: Enterprise Project Structure
- Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) overview
- Understanding the Enterprise Project Structure
- Modifying the EPS
- Lesson summary
Lesson 3: Project Creation
- Project creation overview
- Preparing for a new project
- Creating a new project
- Lesson summary
Lesson 4: The Work Breakdown Structure
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) overview
- Defining a Work Breakdown Structure
- Modifying the WBS
- Lesson summary
Lesson 5: Adding Activities
- Activities overview
- Describing an Activity and its attributes
- Working with Activity Types
- Adding Activities
- Understanding Duration Types
- Importing Activities
- Assigning Activity Codes
- Adding Activity Steps
- Lesson summary
Lesson 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
- Lesson summary
Lesson 7: Formatting Project Data
- Formatting overvie
- Grouping
- Sorting
- Filtering
- Lesson summary
Lesson 8: Roles and Resources
- Resources and Roles overview
- Describing Roles and Resources
- Assigning Roles to an Activity
- Assign Rates on Roles
- Assigning Resources
- Displaying the Resource Usage Profile
- Analyzing Resource Assignments
- Lesson summary
Lesson 9: Analysis, Risks and Issues
- Analysis overview
- Adjusting the Project Schedule
- Analyzing Resource Availability
- Entering Risks
- Entering Issues
- Using Thresholds to monitor Issues
- Lesson summary
Lesson 10: Baselines
- Baselines overview
- Creating a Baseline Plan
- Display Baseline Bars on the Gantt Chart
- Setting up a Baseline view
- Lesson summary
Lesson 11: Project Execution
- Project execution overview
- Status update methods
- Progressing activity status
- Progressing activity using Steps
- Rescheduling the Project
- Summarizing Projects
- Working with Reflections
- Monitoring Issues and Thresholds
- Lesson summary
Lesson 12: Reporting
- Reporting overview
- Describing Reporting Methods
- Running a Schedule Report
- Creating a report with the Report Wizard
- Lesson summary