Why Primavera?

Primavera Project Management module is comprehensive, multi-project planning and control software, for enterprise-wide project management scalability.

The Project Management module enables users to track and analyze project(s) performance. It is a multiuser, multiproject system with scheduling and resource control capabilities supporting multi-tiered project hierarchies, resource scheduling with a focus on roles and skills, recording of actual data, customizable views, and user-definable data.

Course topics are carefully crafted by expert from industry to cover most widely used features of Primavera Project Management Professional version latest release. Course aim is to prepare attendees to gain sufficient conceptual knowledge as well as practice covering practical planning/scheduling situations, so that they can start using Primavera P6 in their company projects right after the training.

Course Outline:

* Introduction
–Project Management basics
–Background of Primavera

* Know Primavera
–Overview on UI components & customization
–Overview of layouts
–Scheduling Modes

* Organizing Projects
–Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
–Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
–Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

* Creating Project
–Creating new project
–Setting Project properties

* Structuring project work through WBS
–Setting WBS
–Identifying work to be done in project
–Organizing work in structure
–WBS Milestones
–WPs & Docs

* Importing & Exporting Projects

* Creating Activities
–Creating activities
–Setting up activity properties/details
–Activity Types

* Network Analysis
–Relationships
–Lead & Lag
–Gantt Diagram & Activity Network Diagram
–Understanding Critical Path Method (CPM)
–Float/Slack

* Managing Resources & Roles
–Resource Types
–Creating resource & properties
–Creating Role and assigning resources to role
–Resource Assignment

* Working with Calendars
–Calendar overview
–Calendar Levels
–Creating a new calendar or modifying existing

* Understanding Scheduling algorithm and options

* Understanding Constraints

* Threshold, Issue, and Risk
–Overview threshold, issue and Risk
–Creating Threshold
–Creating Issues manually
–Monitoring Threshold & create issue automatically
–Risk Management basics
–Creating Risks
–Assigning Risk to activity

* Fine Tuning
–Reviewing schedule
–Resource Usage Spreadsheet & Resource Usage Profile
–Review, balance workload
–Resource Leveling assignments

* Baselining Project
–Maintaining Baseline
–Assigning Baseline
–Restoring Baseline
–Converting existing project as Baseline

* Tracking Project progress
–Auto compute actuals
–Percent complete
–Entering hours
–Actual dates
–Actual costs
–Checking variance
–Understanding % Complete Types
–Activity Steps and Physical % Complete

* Reporting
–Screen Printing
–Using existing Reports
–Reports Groups/Sections
–Batch Reports

* Miscellaneous
–Renumber Activities
–Dissolve (Delete Vs Dissolve)
–Filter By
–Group and Sort By
–Progress Spotlight
–Progress Line
–Attachments => Curtain / Text
–Line Number
–Expenses
–Create Reflection
–Summarize

* Earned Value Management (EVM) (only for corporate training)
–Understanding EVM technique to track or control costs in project
–Apply cost in project
–EVM in Primavera

Deliverables:

• Complete hands-on effective training with individual focus

• Flexible schedules – weekend or weekday; classroom or online or corporate

• On Demand one-one and batch training at mutually convenient schedules

• Practices and Exercises during the workshop

• Interactive approach to understand concepts thoroughly

• Speak to our coach before workshop

• Discussion on concepts behind few features of Primavera

• Continued support over mail and lot more…

Audience Profile:

• Project team members, leads, managers, supervisors, planners, estimators, schedulers and  anyone who is interested in learning how to use Primavera P6 Project Management tool.

Prerequisites:

• Basic knowledge on projects environment.