Fundamentals P6 EPPM Training (3 Day)

Learn To…

• Fully understand Primavera P6 EPPM functionality and navigation
• Create a project and take it through the complete Project Life Cycle
• How to monitor Critical Path Analysis in Primavera P6 EPPM
• Manipulate the plan for your own company requirements
• Create, assign and analyse Roles and Resources
• Baseline (Create a target of) the plan in Primavera P6
• Update the plan when it has started
• Create Reports and printed output

Benefits…

This course will help you (in the most relaxed and helpful environment) understand the basic features and functions of Primavera P6 Fundamentals EPPM, also includes extra additional more advanced functionality, so that you can apply them to your organisation’s project management processes. Key features are learning how to manage projects to complete them on time and within budget, and within your organisations resource capacity.

Explore Project Management Fundamentals…

All workshops and instruction stress the three basic elements of project management – scheduling, resources and costs.
At the end of each day is a fun, interactive, revision quiz where the delegates will be split into teams.

At the end of the course, you’ll apply the concepts and functionality you learned in an end-of-course summary exercise, either on your own, or choose to work alongside a colleague.

• Business Analysts
• Functional Implementer
• Project Manager
• Planners/schedulers
• End Users

Benefits…

Enrolling in this Oracle Primavera P6 Fundamentals course will help you (in the most relaxed and helpful environment) understand the basic features and functions of Primavera P6 Professional, also includes extra additional more advanced functionality, so that you can apply them to your organisation’s project management processes. Key features are learning how to manage projects to complete them on time and within budget, and within your organisation’s resource capacity.

Explore Project Management Fundamentals…

All workshops and instruction stress the three basic elements of project management – scheduling, resources and costs.
At the end of each day is a fun, interactive, revision quiz where the delegates will be spilt into teams.
At the end of the course, you’ll apply the concepts and functionality you learned in an end-of-course summary exercise, either on your own, or choose to work alongside a colleague.

Understanding P6 Data

• Describing Enterprise and Project-Specific data
• Logging In
• Opening an Existing Project
• Opening and Customising Layouts

Enterprise Project Structure

• Describing Components of the EPS

Creating a Project

• Create a project
• Navigating in the Projects Window
• Viewing Project Details

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

• Defining a Work Breakdown Structure
• Creating the WBS Hierarchy

Adding, Changing Activities

• Describing an Activity and its Components
• Describing Activity Types
• Add an Activities
• Entering a Notebook Topic
• Adding Steps to an Activity
• Assigning Activity Codes

Creating Relationships

• Viewing a Network Logic Diagram
• Relationship Types
• Creating Relationships

Scheduling

• Performing a Forward and Backward Pass
• Describing Float

Assigning Constraints

• Applying an Overall Deadline to a Project
• Apply a Constraint to an Activity

Using Reflection Projects

• Creating a Reflection Project
• Merging Changes

Formatting Schedule Data

• Grouping Activities
• Sorting
• Filtering

Roles and Resources

• Describing Roles and Resources
• Viewing Dictionaries

Assigning Roles & Resources

• Roles to an Activity

• Resources to an Activity

Analysing Resources

• Displaying and analysing the Resource Usage Profile

Optimising the Project Plan

• Analysing Schedule Dates
• Shortening a Project Schedule
• Analysing Resource Availability

Baselining the Project Plan

• Creating a Baseline Plan
• Display Baseline Bars on the Gantt Chart

Project Execution and Control

• Describing Methods for Updating the Schedule
• Using Progress Spotlight
• Update progresses Activities
• Rescheduling the Project

Reporting Performance

• Running a Schedule Report

Portfolios

• Creating a Portfolio manually, or using a filter
• Displaying portfolios in a Dashboard

Dashboards

• Creating a Dashboard
• Modifying an existing Dashboard

Project Workspace

• Creating a Project workspace window

User-Defined Interface Views

• Creating a new User-defined Interface View

End of Course Summary Exercise

• Unlike some other training companies, we provide this exercise and it has been quoted as “The best, and most important part of the course” by delegates.