Primavera P6 Professional

Introduction

• Introduction about projects
• Introduction to project management
• Introduction to primavera
• History of planning
• Skills required for planning
• Project phases & life cycle

Structuring the Project

• Setting up enterprise project structure (EPS)
• Setting up organisational breakdown structure (OBS)
• User administration
• User control & limited access provisions
• Setting user preferences
• Creating a project
• Setting up work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Defining project status
• Setting up project dates
• Setting up project codes
• Project parameters

Codes, Notebooks & Calendar

• Project codes
• Resource codes
• Activity codes
• Notebooks
• Global calendar
• Resource calendar
• Project calendar

Project Time Management

• Defining & creating project activities
• Activity types
• Duration types
• Percentage completion types
• Activity resource units loading
• Applying activities relationships (logical connection)
• Relationship types
• Scheduling
• Applying constraint
• Creating activity steps
• Feeding activity information to execution team
• Activity summary

Project Resource management

• Types of resources
• Units of measures
• Creating resource
• Default & maximum units per time
• Resource price revisions
• Resource shift creation
• Assigning resource to activities
• Creating roles
• Assigning roles to resources
• Assigning roles to activities
• Resource loading
• Resource curves
• Bucket loading

Project Cost Management

• Project funding sources
• Activity costing
• Expenses
• Estimating budgeted and actual cost for activities
• Establishing budgets for work packages
• Estimating project budgets
• Preparing project cash flow
• Cost comparison analysis
• Cost monitoring & revisions
•  Project budget revisions

Project Risk Management

• Identifying project risk
• Categorizing risk
• Risk status
• Analyzing pre-risk impact
• Setting risk control plan
• Post risk impact analysis
• Finding risk cost
• Cause and effect analysis

Project Monitoring & Control

• Setting up & assigning baselines
• Apply actuals
• Progress update
• Look ahead schedule
• Delay impact analysis
• Earned value analysis
• S-curve analysis
• Setting up project thresholds
• Project issue register
• Working in project issues
• Levelling project resources
• Project tracking

Reporting

• Template reporting
• Manual reporting
• Report batches
• Procurement report
• Project progress report
• Schedule comparison report
• Weekly report
• Project cost report
• Project closing report
• Client report

Other Features

• project portfolio management
• Managing multiple projects
• Project work products & documents
• Creating layouts
• User defined fields
• Global change
• Store period performances
• Recalculate assignment cost
• Imports & export the project data
• Project management concepts