Course Overview
This Primavera P6 Professional training leads you through the entire project life cycle, from planning to execution. You'll develop a thorough understanding of how to plan and schedule.
Learn To:
- Create and schedule a project.
- Assign resources.
- Adjust the project schedule.
- Execute and control the project.
- Add activities.
Benefits to You
Enrolling in this course will help you understand P6 Professional’s basic features and functionality so you can apply them to your organization’s project management processes. You'll also learn how to manage projects on time and within budget to ensure optimal outcomes from capital and resource investments.
Explore Project Management Fundamentals
All workshops and instruction stress the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resources and costs. At the end of each day, you'll apply the concepts and functionality you learned in a case study. The course is divided into three sections: Creating a Project; Scheduling the Project; Project Execution and Control.
Use P6 Professional
The course uses P6 Professional, Primavera's Windows-based, client/server application. It is appropriate for those using P6 Professional either as a stand-alone application or as part of P6 EPPM.
Please note that this course uses the P6 Optional Client (Windows-based client).
Who should attend
- End Users
- Business Analysts
- Project Manager
- Functional Implementer
Prerequisites
Suggested Prerequisites:
- Knowledge of project management principles
Course Objectives
- Create a Work Breakdown Structure
- Define roles and resources
- Assign roles
- Assign resources
- Analyze resources
- Optimize the project plan
- Understand data structures
- Create a project
- Add activities
- View calendars
- Create relationships
- Schedule the project
- Assign constraints
- Create reports
- Format schedule data
- Execute the project
Course Content
- Understanding P6 Data
- Enterprise Project Structure
- Creating a Project
- Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
- Adding Activities
- Creating Relationships
- Scheduling
- Assigning Constraints
- Using Reflection Projects
- Formatting Schedule Data
- Roles and Resources
- Assigning Roles
- Assigning Resources
- Analyzing Resources
- Optimizing the Project Plan
- Baselining the Project Plan
- Project Execution and Control
- Reporting Performance