PRIMAVERA P6 – FUNDAMENTALS

PRIMAVERA P6

Introduction

Primavera P6 is an impressive project management application, used worldwide to enhance projects effectively and easily. The application is used by managers, engineers, schedulers involved in planning, managing, and reporting of a project, and  has benefited every industry such as manufacturing, oil & gas, engineering, construction, and aerospace. Due to the worldwide use of Primavera P6 software, the demand of its expert users is high.

Primavera P6 is one of the most popular tools in project scheduling, and there are benefits of learning for career growth. Primavera P6 training aims to provide an in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience. It helps users to implement / apply the application in their projects.

Benefits of Primavera P6 learning

  • More knowledge / More confidence: Primavera P6 can lead you through the process of setting up a project from the beginning to the end. It
    includes efficient techniques in project management, scheduling and resource management. Having more knowledge gives you more confidence.
  • Increased job opportunities: Many large companies in the world use Primavera P6 software to manage their projects. The software is used across many industries to deliver large-scale projects.
  • Ability to work in more roles: A detailed knowledge of Primavera P6 makes you familiar with different aspects of a project like scheduling techniques and rules, resource management, cost analysis, and reporting.
  • Higher salary: Having a detailed knowledge of Primavera P6 can help you negotiate a higher rate of pay. Even if you like to stay in your current position, the new skills allow you to take larger and more complex projects, and lead different aspects of the work.

Course Information

Fundamentals of Primavera P6 will be presented in a 2-day training program.

Learn the fundamentals of Primavera P6 Professional as used in engineering and construction.

After the training, you will get solid understanding of how to use the software, and will be able to prepare schedules, and create reports.

The workshops, examples, and techniques used in this class are based on real projects.

Who should take the course

This Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals training course focuses on the needs of engineering and construction professionals.

This course is for:

  • Project planners / schedulers
  • Project managers
  • Team leaders
  • Any roles related to scheduling work, creating reports or supporting project work

Course prerequisites

This course needs some basic information about:

  • Networks (Activity on node)
  • Project scheduling process

Ways to take the course

You can join our Primavera P6 Fundamentals training online or in-person.

We also offer this course at your own location.

Course Agenda

Day 1:

  1. Scheduling Best Practices ( Plan Schedule Management, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Assigning Resources, Estimate Activity Duration, Activity Names, Activity Attributes, Activity Codes, Milestone Lists, Activity Types, Activity Owner, Network Diagrams, Critical Path Method CPM, Activity Relations and Constraints, Early and Late Start, Early and Late Finish, Dependency , and Schedule Baseline)
  2. Getting to Know Primavera P6
  3. Creating a Project Plan
  4. Starting Up and Navigation
  5. Creating a New Project
  6. Defining Calendars
  7. Creating a Primavera Project WBS
  8. Adding Activities and Organizing Under the WBS
  9. Formatting the Display
  10. Adding Relationships
  11. Activity Network View
  12. Constraints

 

Day 2:

  1. Group, Sort and Layouts
  2. Filters
  3. Printing and Reports
  4. Scheduling Options and Setting a Baseline
  5. Updating an Unresourced Schedule
  6. User and Administration Preferences
  7. Creating Roles and Resources
  8. Assigning Roles, Resources and Expenses

PDF version of course agenda

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