Primavera P6 (Versions 8.1 & 8.2)

Primavera P6 (Versions 8.1 and 8.2) courses are offered by HiTech Institute. HiTech Institute offers courses in three settings: traditional state-of-the-art classrooms, on-site at your office, and virtual learning opportunities. Whether it's teaching one-on-one or addressing an entire department, we provide flexible options to get your staff up to speed within your budget and schedule.

Course Contents:

Introduction

• Creating a project plan
• Starting up and navigation
• Creating a new project
• Defining calendars
• Creating a primavera project
• Adding activities and organizing under the wbs
• Formatting the display
• Adding relationships
• Activity network view
• Constraints
• Group, sort and layouts
• Filters
• Printing and reports
• Tracking progress
• User and administration preferences and scheduling options
• Creating roles and resources
• Assigning roles, resources and expenses
• Resource optimization
• Updating a resourced schedule
• Other methods of organizing project data
• Global change
• Managing the enterprise environment
• Multiple project scheduling
• Utilities
• What is new in P6 version 7?
• What is new in version 6.0?
• What is new in version 5.0?

Objectives

• Understand the steps required to create a project plan and monitor a project’s progress
• Understand the primavera P6 environment
• Create a project and set up the preferences
• Define calendars
• Creating a Work Breakdown structure and adding activities
• Format the display
• Add logic and constraints
• Use Filters, Group, sorts, and Layouts
• Print reports
• Record and track progress of an unresourced schedule
• User and Administration Preferences and Scheduling Options
• Create and assign roles and resources
• Resource optimization, including leveling
• Update a project containing resources
• Other methods of organizing data and Global Change
• Managing the enterprise environment, including multiple project scheduling

Prerequisites:

• Familiarity with workstation operation, basic operating system commands, and basic use of the system editor is recommended.

Benefits: 

• After completing the course, you will be able to:
• Plan, Schedule and Cost the Project
• Calculate Earned Value
• Generate Reports