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 8.1 necessary. Previous experience with other project scheduling tools an advantage.
Course Description
This course covers all the fundamentals of using Primavera P6 Professional Rel 8.1. 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 overview
- 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
To learn more about this class, please contact Ten Six Consulting (703) 910-2600 or email us at [email protected]
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