Duration

3 days

Overview

This course provides hands-on training for Primavera’s client/server based solution, leading participants through the

entire project life cycle, from planning to execution. Topics include adding actvities, assigning resources, and creating a baseline. Pariticipants also gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling. All workshops and instruction stress the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resource and costs.

Course Objectives

Manage multiple projects
Create a project
Create a Work Breakdown Structure
Add activities
Maintain the project documents library
Create relationships
Schedule the project
Assign constraints

Learning Outcome

Creating a Project
Add activities
Schedule a project
Assign resources
Adjust project schedule

Target Audience

Business Analysts
Project Managers
Work pack Team
Functional Implementer
Project Controller
Project Engineer
Planner and Scheduler

Methodology

Workbook Manual

Workshops

Discussions

Course Outline

Data, Navigating, and Layouts Roles and Resources

Describe enterprise and project-specific data Describe roles

Open an existing project Describe resources

Navigate in the Home window and Activities windowIdentify the differences between labor,

Open an existing layoutnonlabor and material resources

Customize a layoutView the resource dictionary

Save a layout

Assigning Roles

Enterprise Project Structure Assign roles to an activity

Describe the components that comprise the Enterprise ProjectAssigning rates on roles

Structure

View the EPSAssigning Resources and Costs

Assign resources by role

Creating a ProjectAssign labor, nonlabor, and material

Create a projectresources to activities

Navigate in the Projects windowAdjust Budgeted Units/Time for a resource

View and modify information in Project DetailsAssign expenses to activities

Creating a Work Breakdown StructureAnalyzing Resources

Define a Work Breakdown StructureDisplay the Resource Usage Profile

Create multiple levels of a WBS hierarchyFormat a profile

Format the timescale

Adding Activities

Describe an activity and its componentsOptimizing the Project PlanDescribe activity typesAnalyze schedule dates

Add activities Shorten a project schedule

Add a Notebook topic to an activityAnalyze resource availability

Add steps to an activity-Remove resource over allocation

Assign activity codes to activitiesAnalyze project costs

Creating Relationships Base lining the Project Plan

View a network logic diagram Create a baseline plan

Differentiate between the four relationship typesDisplay baseline bars on the Gantt Chart

Create relationships in the Activity Network Modify the bars on the Gantt Chart

Create relationships in Activity Details

Project Execution and Control

Scheduling Describe several methods for updating the Perform a forward and backward pass project schedule

Describe float and its impact on a scheduleUse Progress Spotlight

Identify loops and open ends Status activities

Calculate a schedule Reschedule the project

Analyze the scheduling log report

Reporting Performance

Assigning ConstraintsDescribe reporting methods

Apply an overall deadline to a project Run a schedule report

Apply a constraint to an individual activityCreate a resource report with the Report Add notebook topics to constrained activities wizard

Describe the available constraint typesCreate a time distributed report

Create a report using the current layout

Maintaining the Project Documents Library

Describe the difference between a work product and a referenceP6 Visualizer

documentCreate & customize gantt chart in visualizer

Create a document record

Link the document record to a project document or work

product

Assign the project document to

Formatting Schedule Data

Group activities according to a specific criteria

Sort activities

Apply a filter

Create a filter

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Project Management in Primavera (Basic)