Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals For Project Managers

Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers is a three-day course. Delegates will learn about the basics features of P6 Professional.

This Primavera course will provide the knowledge about project life cycle which includes planning, scheduling, resource allocation and execution of project control.

This training enables candidates to manage projects on time along with productively using resources.

Overview

The Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers course provides knowledge about the project lifecycle. The delegates are made familiar to tasks such as adding and managing tasks, assigning resources, etc.

Best Practice Training has a team of well experienced and certified professionals that helps the delegates to use this software in the best possible way for best management processes.

Course Content

An introduction to P6 Data

• Describing Enterprise and Project-Specific data

• How to Log In?

• Opening an Existing Project and Layouts

Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

• An introduction to elements of EPS

Creating a Project

• How to create a project?

• Navigation in the Projects Window

• Viewing Project Details

Generating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Describing a WBS

• Creating the WBS Hierarchy

Adding Activities

• Describing an Activity and its types

• Adding Activities, Notebook topic

• Adding Steps to an Activity

• Allocating Activity Codes

Building Relationships

• Viewing a Network Logic Diagram

• Relationship Types

• Creating Relationships

Scheduling

• Accomplishment of Forward and Backward Pass

• Defining Float

Assigning Constraints

• Discussing an overall Deadline to a Project

• Applying Constraint to an Activity

Using Reflection Projects

• Making a Reflection Project

• Merging Changes

Formatting Schedule Data

• Grouping Methods

• Describing Sorting and Filtering

Describing Roles and Resources

• An overview of Roles and Resources

• Viewing Dictionaries

• Allocating Roles to a Process

• Allocating Rates on Roles

Allocating Resources

• Assigning Resources

• Regulating Budgeted Units/Time

Examining Resources

• Demonstrating the Resource Usage Profile

Enhancing the Project Plan

• Examining Schedule Dates and Resource Availability

• Shortening a Project Schedule

Base lining the Project Plan

• Making a Baseline Plan

• Show Baseline Bars on the Gantt Chart

Project Execution and Control

• Describing Methods for Informing the Schedule

• Using Progress Spotlight

• Stat using Activities

• Rearrangement of the Project

Reporting Performance

• Defining Reporting Methods

• Running a Schedule Report

• Creating a report with the Report Wizard

Prerequisites

Candidates should have some basic knowledge about project management principles.

Target Audience

The target audience of this course is Project Manager, End Users, Functional Implementers, Business Analysts. The target group of this course are those persons who wish to learn about project management in general and the use of Primavera P6 Professional.

Delegates Will Learn How To

By undergoing this training, the participants will learn about:

• How to create a project and work breakdown structure?

• Adding activities

• Viewing calendars

• How to create relationships?

• Scheduling of projects

• Assigning constraints

• Format schedule data

• Describing roles and resources

• Assigning roles and resources

• Analyze resources

• Optimize the project plan

• Executing the project

• Understanding data structures