Primavera P6 Professional R8.3 Fundamentals
Course Overview
Program: Using Primavera P6 Professional (Windows client software)
This course covers all the fundamentals of using Primavera P6 Professional Release 8.2; Primavera’s cornerstone Windows client application for power users and professional schedulers. Through a series of lectures, interactive sessions and hands-on exercises, participants will gain the knowledge and experience they need to use P6 Professional as an effective project management tool.
Duration: 2 Days
Course Dates
Course Contents
Navigation
- Primavera P6 overview
- An introduction to Primavera P6
- Understanding the benefits of true Enterprise Project Management systems
- Logging In
- Understanding the Views and Layouts
- Customizing Layouts
- Lesson summary
Enterprise Project Structure
- Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) overview
- Understanding the Enterprise Project Structure
- Modifying the EPS
- Lesson summary
Project Creation
- Project creation overview
- Preparing for a new project
- Creating a new project
- Lesson summary
The Work Breakdown Structure
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) overview
- Defining a Work Breakdown Structure
- Modifying the WBS
- Lesson summary
Adding Activities
- Activities overview
- Describing an Activity and its attributes
- Working with Activity Types
- Adding Activities
- Understanding Duration Types
- Importing Activities
- Assigning Activity Codes
- Adding Activity Steps
Relationships and Constraints
- Relationships overview
- Relationship Types
- Creating Relationships
- Performing a Forward and Backward Pass
- Apply a Constraint to an Activity
- Critical Path Method
- Modifying the Project Duration
Formatting Project Data
- Formatting overview
- Grouping
- Sorting
- Filtering
Roles and Resources
- Resources and Roles overview
- Describing Roles and Resources
- Assigning Roles to an Activity
- Assign Rates on Roles
- Assigning Resources
- Displaying the Resource Usage Profile
- Analyzing Resource Assignments
Analysis, Risks and Issues
- Analysis overview
- Adjusting the Project Schedule
- Analyzing Resource Availability
- Entering Risks
- Entering Issues
- Using Thresholds to monitor Issues
Baselines
- Baselines overview
- Creating a Baseline Plan
- Display Baseline Bars on the Gantt Chart
- Setting up a Baseline view
Project Execution
- Project execution overview
- Status update methods
- Progressing activity status
- Progressing activity using Steps
- Rescheduling the Project
- Summarizing Projects
- Working with Reflections
- Monitoring Issues and Thresholds
Reporting
- Reporting overview
- Describing Reporting Methods
- Running a Schedule Report
- Creating a report with the Report Wizard
Learn More
To learn more about this class, please contact PPMG Institute at (919) 561-0548 or email us at training@ppmgrp.com