Advanced Primavera P6 Training

Primavera P6 Professional Project Management, the recognized standard for high-performance project management software, is designed to handle large-scale, highly sophisticated, and multifaceted projects.

It can be used to organize projects up to 100,000 activities, and it provides unlimited resources and an unlimited number of target plans. Massive data requires sophisticated yet highly flexible organization tools to provide you with a multitude of ways to organize, filter, and sort activities, projects, and resources.

In addition, Primavera P6 can be integrated with most financial and HR software.  It features best-in-class integration for bringing together schedule, cost, and other vital project data to form a “single version of the truth” for greater speed, accuracy, and efficiency in reporting.

Lesson 1: Resource Optimization

•  Reviewing Resource Loading

• Resource Assignments Window

• Copying and Pasting into Excel

• Other Tools for Histograms and Tables

• Methods of Resolving Resource Peaks and Conflicts

• Resource Leveling

• Leveling Examples ( Leveling with and without Positive Float)

• Resource Shifts

• Guidelines for Leveling

• What to look for if Resources are Not Leveling

• Resource Curves

• Workshop: Resources Optimization

Lesson 2 – Updating a Resourced Schedule

• Understanding Budget Values and Baseline Projects

• Understanding the Current Data Date

• Information Required to Update a Resourced Schedule

• Project Window Defaults for Updating a Resourced Schedule

• Activities Window: Percent Complete Types

• Using Steps to Calculate Activity Percent Complete

• Updating the Schedule

• Updating Resources

• Updating Expenses

• Workshop: Updating a Resourced Schedule

Lesson 3: Other Methods of Organizing Project Data

• Understanding Project Breakdown Structures

• Activity Codes

• User-Defined Fields

• WBS Category or Project Phase

• Resource Codes

• Cost Accounts

• Owner Activity Attribute

• Workshop: Activity Codes and User-Defined Fields (UDF)

Lesson 4: Global Change

• Introducing Global Change

• The Basic Concepts of Global Change

• Specifying the Change Statements

• Examples of Simple Global Changes

• Selecting the Activities for Global Change

• Duration Calculations with Global Change

• (Any of the following) and (All of the following) Temporary Values

• Global Change Functions

• More Advanced Examples of Global Change

• Workshop: Global Change

Lesson 5: Managing the Enterprise Environment

• Multiple User Data Display Issues

• Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

• Project Portfolios

• Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)

• Users, Security Profiles, and Organizational Breakdown Structure

• Project Codes

• Filtering, Grouping, and Sorting Projects in the Projects Window

• Project Durations in the Projects Window

• Why are some data fields gray and cannot be edited?

• Summarizing Projects

• Job Services

• Tracking Window

Lesson 6: Multiple Project Scheduling

• Multiple Projects in One Primavera Project

• Multiple P6 Primavera Projects Representing One Project

• Setting Up Primavera Projects as Sub-projects

• Refresh Data and Commit Changes

• Who has the project open?

• Setting Baselines for Multiple Projects

• Restoring Baselines for Multiple Projects

Lesson 7: Utilities 

• Reflection Projects

• Advanced Scheduling Options ( Calculating and Displaying Multiple Paths)

• Audit Trail Columns

• Excel Import and Export Tool

• Project Import and Export

• Check-In and Check-Out

• UN/CEFACT XML format

• Online HTML Help

• Activity Discussion Feature

Lesson 8 – Earned Value

• Performance Measurement Baseline

• Planned Value

• Earned Value

• Actual Costs

• Estimate to Complete

• Activity Usage:::::: S-Curves

• Sample Graphical S-Curves