Fundamentals of Primavera P6 PPM Training – (3 Day)

Understanding P6 Data

• Describing Enterprise and Project-Specific data
• Opening an Existing Project, or multiple projects and navigate around
• Opening and Customising Layouts

Enterprise Project Structure

• Describing Components and benefits of the EPS

Creating a Project

• Create a project
• Viewing Project Details
• Setting company specific defaults

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

• Defining a Work Breakdown Structure
• Creating the WBS Hierarchy

Adding Activities

• Describing an Activity and its Components
• Describing Activity Types and their differences
• Adding Activities
• Adding a Notebook Topic
• Adding Steps to an Activity
• Assigning Activity Codes
• Creating Calendars

Creating Relationships

• Relationship Types
• Using lags
• Creating Relationships – various options

Scheduling

• Theory behind scheduling – Performing a Forward and Backward Pass
• Critical path analysis
• Describing Float
• Problems with scheduling – loops and open ends
• Using the schedule log record

Assigning Constraints

• Applying an Overall Deadline to a Project
• Apply a Constraint to an Activity rule of thumb
• Soft and hard constraints

Formatting Schedule Data

• Grouping Activities for organisational purposes
• Sorting
• Filtering (single and multiple filters)

Roles and Resources

• Describing Roles and Resources
• Viewing Dictionaries

Assigning Roles

• Assigning Roles to an Activity

Assigning Resources

• Assigning Resources

Analysing Resources

• Displaying the Resource Usage Profile to check for Resource over-allocation
• Display Costs in the Resource Usage Profile
• S–Distribution curves

Optimising the Project Plan

• Analysing Schedule Dates
• Shortening a Project Schedule
• Fixing Resource Over-allocation
• Compare Total Budgeted Cost to the Current Allocated Budget

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
• Updating Activities that have progress
• Rescheduling the Project to reflect progress

Using Reflection Projects

• Creating a Reflection Project
• Merging Changes

Reporting Performance

• Describing Reporting Methods
• Running a Schedule Report
• Creating a report with the Report Wizard
• Printed Output

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.