Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM/PPM for Planners (3 Day Course Brisbane)

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