Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers

A Quick Glance

• Gain basic skills of Primavera Software delivered by Expert instructors

• Guaranteed best price in the industry

• Key learning points and tutor support

• Get optimum project plans

Management is the very important in an organisation. Without control, the execution of the projects cannot produce the desired output. There is the critical need for a management software that can manage the project.

The Primavera is a project management and control software. It is used to handle, organise and filter projects With the Pentagon’s Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers course, you will understand the basics of Primavera software.

This course provides the knowledge of work breakdown structure (WBS) to make you understand about the WBS hierarchy. Also, the instructors will give knowledge on how to create a project, how to add activities and how to schedule data.

The understanding of these concepts equips you to use the Primavera software.

Who Should Take This Course

This course is designed for the project managers who wish to manage projects using the Primavera Management Software.

Prerequisites

There are no requirements for the fundamental P6 software course, but basic knowledge of project management is recommended.

What Will You Learn

By undergoing the P6 software training, the delegates will learn about:

• Creation of a project in Primavera P6

• Addition of activities

• Scheduling of tasks

• Allocation of resources

• Controlling and Execution of a project

• Handling of risks

• Work Breakdown Structure and its hierarchy

• Calendars and its views

• Resources and their roles

• Optimisation of project plan

Course Overview

The Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers course provides the knowledge of the project lifecycle as well as Primavera software concepts.

By undergoing this course, you will know how to create, schedule and execute the whole project. Also, you will get a deep understanding of the how to add activities, allocate resources and schedule tasks.

This course is offered at the best price for the accomplishment of best skills in Primavera software.

Course Content

An introduction to P6 Data

• An introduction to Project Portfolio Management P6

• Introducing the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) and Organizational Breakdown

• Navigation of the main menu and getting P6 help

• Difference of project data and enterprise data

• Opening of a project and layouts

• Logging in to the software

Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

• An introduction to EPS

• The various features of EPS

Creating a Project

• How to create a project?

• Creating work breakdown structure

• Navigation in the Projects Window

• Linking projects

• Viewing Project Details

Generating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• An Introduction to WBS

• Creating the WBS Hierarchy

Adding Activities

• Describing an Activity and its types

• Defining business relationships

• Adding Activities and Notebook topics

• Understanding steps of an activity

• Assigning activity codes

P6 Calendars

• Creating calendars

• Viewing calendars

• Assigning schedules to activities

Producing Relationships

• Displaying a Network Logic Diagram

• Building Relationships

• Explaining various connection types

Scheduling

• An Introduction to Critical Path Method Scheduling and the Impact of Float

  • Accomplishment of Forwarding and Backwards passes

  • The out of Sequence activities

• Describing Float

Assigning Constraints

• Deliberating a general deadline to a Project

• Smearing constraint to an activity

Progressing projects

• How to apply development?

• The updating of individual activities

• Measuring project performance

Using Reflection Projects

• Generating a reflection project

• Assimilating changes

Formatting Schedule Data

• How to Group methods?

• Defining sorting and filtering

Describing Roles and Resources

• An Introduction to functions and resources

• The Viewing of Dictionaries

• Assigning roles to a process

• Allocating rates on roles

Assigning Resources

• Allocating resources

• Adapting budgeted units/time

• Investigating resources

• Indicating the resource usage profile

Layouts Filters, Group and Sort

• Using layouts and reporting layouts

• Introducing filtering, grouping and sorting

• Modifying columns and Gantt chart bars

• Using project documents

• Using p6 document function

The Reporting a Project Key

• Producing standard report

• Creating time distributed reports

Using P6 Visualizer

• An Overview of Visualizer basic operations

• Understanding the Options and Imports functions

• Creating new timescale logic diagram

• Creating new Gantt chart

Enhancing the Project Plan

• Investigating schedule dates and resource obtainability

• Limiting a project schedule

An Introduction to Baselining the Project Plan

• Creation of a Baseline Plan

• Represent Baseline Bars on the Gantt Chart

Project Execution and Control

• Determining methods for informing the schedule

• Understanding Progress Spotlight

• Stat using Actions

• Rearranging Project

Reporting Performance

• Describing reporting methods

• Executing a Schedule Report

• Generating a report with the Report Wizard