Oracle Primavera P6 PPM for Planners (3 Day Course Sydney)

Course Overview

LogiKal provides training in Primavera P6 Release 8, 18 (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.

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 and Reports
    • Scheduling Options and Setting a Baseline
    • Updating an Un-resourced Schedule
    • User and Administration Preferences and Scheduling Options
    • Creating Roles and Resources
    • Assigning Roles, Resources and Expenses
    • Resource Optimization

Day 3

    • Updating a Resourced Schedule
    • Other Methods of Organizing Project Data, Activity Codes and User Defined Fields
    • Global Change
    • Managing the Enterprise Environment
    • Multiple Project Scheduling
    • Utilities, Reflection Projects, Audit Trail, Import and Export
    • Earned Value Management with P6
TARGET AUDIENCE
  • Programme Managers and Project Control staff evaluating the software against organisational requirements.
  • Project schedulers /project planners 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.
REQUIREMENTS
  • Ability to read and write English
  • Understanding of how projects are managed with a sound understanding of project management processes
  • The ability to use a computers with a good understanding of the operating system and Microsoft Office products
  • Prior experience in other planning and scheduling software is very beneficial