Primavera P6 Project Management manages large-scale, critical and multifaceted projects. It enables to manage mega projects based on up to 100,000 activities with unlimited resources and countless planned goals to achieve. With the help of our well-versed training on the usage of Primavera ® P6, individuals will be able to get hands-on knowledge of the Primavera ® software for effective project management. This Primavera ® training will familiarize participants with various Primavera ® capabilities, including, project creation, creating Gantt charts, developing schedules and plans, document management, issue tracking, project portfolio management, resource management.
Project Management Using Primavera P6(Prima)
This course will help participants gain an absolute understanding of the principles of planning and scheduling as well as hands-on training on Oracle’s Primavera P6. It will enable participants to develop a P6 schedule from scratch, updating and monitoring the schedule, & generating reports. Participants may use P6 version 7-16 for exercises.
Primavera P6 Project Management is a must-have skill for every person who is a part of the project management department in any organization should pursue this course. Generally, this course is an essential learning program for Planners, Schedulers, Quantity Surveyors, Engineers, Project Managers, and MS PROJECT Administrators.
- This program is delivered over a duration of 27 contact hours.
- The training cost for this program is Rs.25, 000/- per person.
- 10% discount for students and groups (5 or more).
- A corporate discount is afforded for groups of 10 and over.
Introduction
- Instructor / participant introductions & P6 screenshots
- Overview of planning and scheduling
- Primavera and the Project Management Life Cycle
- Knowledge Areas and Process Groups
- An introduction to Primavera P6
Data, Navigating, and Layouts
- Describe enterprise and project-specific data
- Log in
- Open an existing project
- Navigate in the Home window and Activities window
- Open an existing layout
- Customize a layout
- Save a layout
Creating a WBS
- Define a Work Breakdown Structure
- Create multiple levels of a WBS hierarchy
Adding Activities
- Describe an activity and its components
- Describe activity types
- Add activities
- Add a Notebook topic to an activity
- Add steps to an activity
- Assign activity codes to activities
Creating Relationships
- View a network logic diagram
- Differentiate between the four relationship types
- Create relationships in the Activity Network
- Create relationships in Activity Details
Scheduling
- Perform a forward and backward pass
- Describe float and its impact on a schedule
- Identify loops and open
- ends
- Calculate a schedule
- Analyse the scheduling log report
Assigning Constraints
- Apply an overall deadline to a project
- Apply a constraint to an individual activity
- Add notebook topics to constrained activities
- Describe the available constraint types
Maintaining the Project Documents Library
- Describe the difference between a work product and a reference document
- Create a documented record
- Link the document record to a project document or work product
- Assign the project document to an activity or WBS
Formatting Schedule Data
- Group activities according to specific criteria
- Sort activities
- Apply a filter
- Create a filter
Roles and Resources
- Describe roles
- Views the roles dictionary
- Describe resources
- Identify the differences between Labour
- non-Labour and material resources
- View the resource dictionary
Assigning Roles
- Assign roles to an activity
- Assign rates on roles
Assigning Resources and Costs
- Assign resources by role
- Assign Labour
- non-Labour
- and material resources to activities
- Adjust Budgeted Units/Time for a resource
- Assign expenses to activities
Analysing Resources
- Display the Resource Usage Profile
- Format a profile
- Format the timescale
Optimizing the Project Plan
- Analyse schedule dates
- Shorten a project schedule
- Analyse resource availability
- Remove resource over allocation
- Analyse project costs
Baselining the Project Plan
- Create a baseline plan
- Display baseline bars on the Gantt Chart
- Modify the bars on the Gantt Chart
Project Execution and Control
- Describe several methods for updating the project schedule
- Use Progress Spotlight
- Status activities
- Reschedule the project
Reporting Performance
- Describe reporting methods
- Run a scheduled report
- Create a resource report with the Report wizard
- Create a report using the current layout
Project Website
- Create and launch a project Web site
- Customize the appearance of a project Web site
- Publish activity layouts as HTML pages
Question & Answer Session
- Participants are welcome to discuss scheduling requirements and get instructor feedback!