Primavera P6 Professional 8.4 / 15.2

Day 1

• Introduction to project management concepts
• Project management processes
• Project knowledge areas
• Prerequisites for project planning
• Tips & tricks of planning & control

OBS (Organizational Breakdown Structure)

• Different views
• To create new OBS
• Restrictions

EPS (Enterprise Project Structure)

• Different views
• To create new
• Assigning the responsible manager
• Difference between EPS & OBS

Projects

• Overview of the project
• Creation of new project through wizard
• Creation of new project through details
• Calendar global, resource, project
• New calendar
• Modification, copying holidays from global.
• Making a project or resource calendar as global
• Assigning a calendar as default for the projects

Activity Codes

• Code definition
• Assigning code and organizing
• Reorganizing
• Entering activities through wizard
• Entering activities through details
• Explore the use of duration format including sub unit mile stones, activity type
• Inserting a new column
• Moving the columns
• Time scale adjustments
• Different kind of relationship between tasks
• Different methods of linking
• Estimating the project finish date
• Identifying the project critical path
• Editing the task links
• Applying different calendars to activities & estimating the finish date

Day 2

Constraints in a Project

• Different types of constraints
• Use of secondary constraint

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• What is WBS
• Example for WBS
• Defining WBS structure
• Applying WBS for tasks

Weightage

• WBS weightage
• Activity weightage
• Uses of weightage

Project Codes

• Code definition
• Assigning code and organizing
• Reorganizing

Resource codes

• Code definition
• Assigning code and organizing
• Reorganizing

Work Products & Documents

• Defining WPS & docs
• Difference between WPS & doc
• Assigning it for activities Currency
• To change the currency
• To create new currency
• Setting exchange rate
• To find the cost of a project in another currency

Roles

• Importance of roles
• Defining the roles
• Giving rates for the roles

Resource Sheet Preparation

• Defining resource through wizard
• Defining resource through detail
• Defining resource through calendar
• To create a new unit of measure for materials, which are not available in the list

Resource Assigning

• Through add roles
• Through add resources
• Resources analysis
• Resource usage profile
• Resource usage spread sheet
• Resource curves
• Resource leveling
• Cost loading
• Concepts of stretching, crunching & splitting - manual automatic leveling
• Thresholds
• Issues management
• Notebook topics
• Steps
• Feedback
• Document control
• Risk management in p6

Day 3

Updating Progress

• Setting a baseline
• Entering actual start & actual finish date for tasks
• Updating through duration
• Updating through physical complete
• Updating through units
• Updating cost
• Comparative study of baseline and actual plan with variances
• Preparing "s" curve and KPIS
• Earned value analysis
• Check-in
• Check-out
• Claims & extension of time using primavera
• Filters
• Global change
• Tabular reports
• Graphical reports
• Import / export
• Formatting bars
• User defined fields
• Templates / methodology management