Planning & Control Using Primavera P6

Course Overview

LogiKal provides training in Primavera P6 Release 8 to 20 (PPM Professional). The course material is “Planning and Control Using Oracle® Primavera P6” written by Paul Harris, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd.

The course is aimed at teaching students how to use Oracle® Primavera P6 PPM up to an intermediate level. Unlike other training material, the format allows the book to be read as a reference guide back in the workplace.

Duration: 3 days
Delivery Mode: Instructor Led, Classroom Base

Course Agenda

Day 1

• Introduction
• Creating a Project Plan
• Starting Up and Navigation
• Creating a New Project
• Defining Calendars
• Creating a Primavera Project WBS
• Adding Activities and Organizing Under The WBS
• Formatting the Display
• Adding Relationships
• Activity Network View
• Constraints

Day 2

• Group, Sort and Layouts
• Filters
• Printing, Reports and Visualizer
• Scheduling Options and Setting a Baseline
• Updating an Unresourced Schedule
• User and Administration Preferences
• Creating Roles and Resources
• Assigning Roles, Resources and Expenses
• Resource Optimization

Day 3

• Updating a Resourced Schedule
• Other Methods of Organizing Project Data
• Global Change
• Managing the Enterprise Environment
• Multiple Project Scheduling
• Utilities
• Earned Value Management with P6

Pre-requisites

Need to read and write English

It is important that people who attend this course know and understand how projects are managed with a sound understanding of project management processes

The ability to use personal computers with a good understanding of the operating system and Microsoft Office products

Prior experience in other planning and scheduling software would be very beneficial

Should I Study This Course?

This course is suitable for:

• Project schedulers who wish to learn how to use the software to schedule and control projects.
• Database managers who wish to understand how to set up and administer a database.
• Experienced project personnel who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.