Duration: 3 Days
Prerequisites: Basic project management and scheduling knowledge. No previous experience working with Primavera P6 R8.1 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 over 100 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
To learn more about this class, please contact Ten Six Consulting (703) 910-2600 or email us at [email protected]
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