Primavera P6 Professional – Fundamentals – Online Course
Course Duration: 2.5-days
Course Instruction Hours: 19

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This course provides hands-on training for Primavera’s client/server based solution Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling. Scheduling techniques will be covered. Participants will be lead through a combination of live lecture lessons and hands-on workshops that create and track an entire project to completion. All workshops and instruction use the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resource and costs.

Course Times:

Our online Fundamentals course runs in parallel with our regularly scheduled in-person training sessions held in Houston and the New Orleans area.  The course will run from 1pm to 5pm on the day 1, then 9am to 5pm on days 2 & 3 with a roughly 1 1/2 hour lunch break.

Students are encouraged to enroll as early as possible as these classes are offered on a limited seats are available.

Prerequisites: Proficient in use of the Microsoft Windows operating system and a basic understanding of project management principles.

Hardware/Software Requirements: A stable broadband internet connection is required. Students must also have access to Windows/MacOS computer with user rights to install temporary training software.  If you have any questions concerning these hardware requirements, please do not hesitate to give us a call at 1-800-401-5701.

Learning Outcomes:

• Create a project with activities and resources
• Calculate a schedule
• Analyze resource/cost data
• Compare current vs. target schedules

At the completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Add a Project to the Project Structure
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure
• Add Reference Documents
• Add Activities
• Add Steps and Codes to Activities
• Create Relationships
• Schedule a Project
• Add Constraints
• Organize Activities
• Assign Resources and Costs
• Analyze Resource/Cost Usage
• Optimize the Schedule
• Status the Project
• Analyze the Updated Project

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Session One:

• Introduction and Understanding Data in P6 Professional
• Overview and Navigation in P6
• Creating a Project
• Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Session Two:

• Adding Activities to the Project Schedule
• Building & Assigning Activity Calendars
• Case Study 1 – Creating a Project
• Creating Relationships and Schedule Logic
• Scheduling and Critical Path Calculation
• Assigning Constraints
• Creating Layouts, Filters and Formatting Data
• Defining Roles and Resources
• Assigning Roles, Resources and Costs to Activities

Session Three:

• Optimizing the Schedule (Timing, Resources & Costs)
• Baselining the Project Schedule
• Importing and Exporting Schedule Data
• Case Study 2 – Optimizing the Project
• Methods of Applying Progress
• Project Schedule Updating – Execution and Control
• Creating Reflection Projects (What-If Analysis and Remote Updating)
• Reporting Performance
• Final Workshop: Case Study – Project Execution and Control