Primavera P6

Course Materials:

Project Planning and Control Using Primavera P6.

Course Outline

INTRODUCTION

1 CREATING A PROJECT PLAN
Level 1 – Planning without resources
Level 2 – Monitoring progress without resources
Level 3 – scheduling with resources, Roles and Budgets
Level 4 – Monitoring and controlling a resourced schedule.

2 STARTING UP AND NAVIGATION

3 CREATING A NEW PROJECT

4 DEFINING CALENDARS

5 CREATING A PRIMAVERA PROJECT WBS

6 ADDING ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZING UNDER THE WBS

7 FORMATTING THE DISPLAY

8 ADDING RELATIONSHIPS

9 ACTIVITY NETWORK VIEW

10 CONSTRAINTS

11 FILTERS

12 GROUP, SORT AND LAYOUTS

13 PRINTING AND REPORTS

14 TRACKING PROGRESS

15 USER AND ADMINISTRATION PREFERENCE AND ADVANCED SCHEDULING OPTIONS
- User preferences
- Admin menu
- Miscellaneous defaults
- Admin preferences
- Scheduling options

16 CREATING ROLES AND RESOURCES ASSIGNING ROLES, RESOURCES AND EXPENSES
- Project workspace resources preferences
- User preferences applicable to assigning resources
- Activity workspace resource preference and defaults
- Assigning and removing roles
- Expenses

17 RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION
- Reviewing resource loading
- Methods of resolving resource peaks and conflicts
- Resource leveling
- Resource leveling function resource shifts

18 USING A RESOURCED SCHEDULE

19 OTHER METHODS OF ORGANIZING PROJECT DATA

20 GLOBAL CHANGE

21 MANAGING THE ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT

22 MULTIPLE PROJECT SCHEDULING

23 UTILITIES

24 WHAT IS NEW IN VERSION 6.0

25 WHAT IS NEW IN VERSION 5.0

26 WHAT IS NEW IN VERSION 4.1

27 PROJECT IMPORT AND EXPORT

28 INDEX