- Workshop Objectives / Learning Outcomes:
- This course is aimed at providing:
- An introduction to Primavera P6 Professional as an Enterprise Project Management tool.
- Expertise in building a project in P6 from start to finish.
- Demonstrate how to execute and optimize the project.
- Introduce the project reporting techniques.
- Equip the learner with a level of competency that enables them to use P6 in the workplace.
- Course Contents
- Introduction to Project Management.
- Introduction to Project Life-cycle.
- Introduction to Project Planning and Scheduling techniques
- Discussions on Planning, Executing, Monitoring & controlling and Closing Process Groups.
- Discussions on Project development methodologies.
- Introduction to Primavera P6 Terminologies
- P6 user interface and navigation
- Customizing the P6 views and layouts
- Understanding the purpose of the Enterprise Project Structure
- Modifying the Enterprise Project Structure
- Creating and modifying Organization Breakdown Structure
- Creating a new project
- Understanding the project status options
- Modifying project settings
- Creating and using project codes
- Preparation of a best-practice WBS
- Creating a WBS in P6
- Modifying the WBS elements
- Activities and their attributes
- Activity types and their importance in building a schedule
- Creating new activities
- Creating and assigning activity codes
- Relationship types in P6
- Creating relationships
- Understanding the forward and backward pass and Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Applying constraints to activities
- Adjusting the duration and finish date of your project
- 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
- Creating resources
- Pricing resources
- Assigning resources to activities
- Working with the Resource Usage Profile and analysing resource assignments Analysis overview
- Analysing resource availability
- Mitigating resource overloads
- Creating and assigning baselines
- Displaying baseline data in the Table and Gantt chart
- Understanding variance 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
- Creating and running reports using the reporting wizard
- Modifying existing reports