Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals

Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Course provides an in-depth knowledge to the delegates about how to use powerful software programs to manage the whole project lifecycle. With the help of training, the delegates will be able to understand about creating, scheduling and assigning resources as well as executing, controlling and adding activities. The delegates will be able to understand the concepts of planning and scheduling.

Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals course is divided into three units which are creating a project, scheduling the project and project execution & control. Throughout the training the delegates will learn how to schedule a project, assign resources, adjust the project schedule, execute and control the project. The delegates will understand how to customize the personal workspace and the project workspace to observe the project progress and communicate with team members.

Introduction & Learning Objectives

• Overview of Project Management Life-cycle
• Initiating and Planning Process Group
• Executing Process Group
• Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
• Closing Process Group

Getting to know about the Primavera P6 Professional

• P6 User Interface and Navigation
• Customizing the P6 Views and Layouts

Project Creation

• Creating a New Project
• Understanding the Project Status Options
• Modifying Project Settings
• Creating and Using Project Codes

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Preparation of a Best-Practice WBS
• Creating a WBS in P6
• Modifying the WBS Elements

The Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

• Understanding the Purpose of the Enterprise Project Structure
• Modifying the Enterprise Project Structure

Adding Activities

• Activities and their Attributes
• Activity Types and their importance in Building a Schedule
• Creating New Activities
• Understand Create and Assign Activity Codes

Formatting Project Data

• Modifying the Grouping of Project Data
• Sorting Data in a Table
• Using Filters to Control the Data Displayed
• Modifying the Appearance of the Gantt Chart
• Modifying Timescales

Relationships and Constraints

• Relationship Types in P6
• Creating Relationships
• Understanding the Forward & Backward Pass and (CPM) Critical Path Method
• Applying Constraints to Activities
• Adjusting the Duration and Finish Date of Project

Resource Analysis

• Analysis Overview
• Analysing Resource Availability
• Mitigating Resource Overloads

Resources & Costs

• Creating Resources
• Pricing Resources
• Assigning Resources to Activities
• Working with the Resource Usage Profile and Analysing Resource Assignments

Progressing the Project

• Understanding the P6 Data Date
• Updating Activity Progress Information, Actual Dates and Costs
• Using the Progress Spotlight Feature
• Updating the Project Using the Schedule Feature
• Correcting Issues in the Schedule Using Reflections for What-If Analysis

P6 Baselines

• Understanding the Principles of Baselining P6 Project Schedules
• Creating and Assigning Baselines
• Displaying Baseline Data in the Table and Gantt Chart
• Understanding Variance

Reporting

• Running Reports from a Layout
• Creating and Running Reports Using the Reporting Wizard
• Modifying Existing Reports