Primavera P6 Workforce Development Training (2 Day)

Understanding P6 Data

• Describing Enterprise and Project-Specific data

Enterprise Project Structure

• Describing Components of the EPS
• Opening an Existing Project and opening multiple projects
• Opening and Customising Layouts

Creating a Project

• Create a project
• Viewing Project Details
• Setting company-specific project 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
• Adding Activities
• Adding a Notebook Topic
• Adding Steps to an Activity
• Assigning Activity Codes
• Creating and assigning calendars

Creating Relationships

• Relationship Types
• Creating Relationships
• Relationship lags

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

Formatting Schedule Data

• Grouping Activities
• Sorting
• Filtering

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

Optimising the Project Plan

• Analysing Schedule Dates
• Checking and resolving uissues
• 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
• Uodating Activities
• Rescheduling the Project to reflect progress

Reporting Performance

• Running a Schedule Report

Creating a report with the Report Wizard

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.