• Project Managers
• Planners/schedulers

Benefits…

Enrolling in this Oracle Primavera P6 course will help you understand the fundamental features and functions with Primavera P6 Professional.

Key features are learning how to manage projects to complete them on time and within budget, and within your organisation’s resource capacity.

Explore Project Management Fundamentals…

This course stresses post-scheduling, additional functionality in terms of constraining, grouping and sorting, resource and cost planning and base-lining the plan. At the end of each day is a fun, interactive, revision quiz.  At the end of the course, you’ll apply the concepts and functionality you learned in an end-of-course summary exercise.

Adding Constraints

Soft and Hard Constraints, Constraint Guidelines, Viewing Constraints in P6.

Project Related Documents

Creating Links to Project related documents and attaching the links to activities.  Launching the documents from within P6.

Grouping the Activities Window

Grouping the Project using Date Ranges, Activity Codes, Float Paths and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

Filtering

Running exiting Filters and creating bespoke ones, Filter rules, running multiple Filters, Rolling-date Filters

Roles

The Role Data-table, viewing existing Roles and attributes, creating new Roles, Role limits and prices.

Resources

The Resource Data-table (Labour, Non-labour & Materials), viewing existing Resources and attributes, creating new Resources, Resource limits and prices.

Assigning Roles and Resources

Role and Resource Calculations, Assigning single or multiple Roles and Resources, Adding Expenses, Summary Tab to view overall activity Resource units, costs and dates.

Resource Allocation

Viewing Resource usage profiles for over-allocation, All vs Open projects, S-Distribution Curves, Time Period use vs over-all use, Viewing costs, Resource usage spreadsheets.

Optimising the plan

Taking Back-up copies – exporting, copy-paste,  fixing issues with negative float, resource over-allocation, exceeding the budget.

Baseline the plan

Creating a target of the project for analysis once the project begins, assigning the baseline, displaying baseline bars in the Gantt chart.

End of Course Summary Exercise

Unlike some other training companies, we provide this exercise and it has been quoted as “The best, and most important part of the course” by delegates.

Suggested Prerequisites…

• Knowledge of project management principles

Recommended Related Training Courses…

Primavera P6 Professional – Introduction – 1 Day

This 1 day course is designed as an introduction to P6 professional, for users who have either never used Primavera before or for users who would like a refresher course in the software.

You will get course material, access to a Primavera P6 professional environment for the duration of the course, and for longer by arrangement.

Primavera P6 Professional – Baselines, Updating & Reporting – 1 day

This is 1 Day P6 online P6 Professional course for users who are interested in Updating a P6 Plan, Viewing the Updated Plan including Variances, Re Base-lining the Project …..

PPM Primavera P6 – Advanced (2 Day)

This is a 1 day follow-on Primavera P6 Professional course learn new ways to manage and use P6 including baselines and reporting.

EPPM Primavera P6 – Advanced (2 Day)

Primavera P6 EPPM (The Web version of the software)
Similar to P6 Professional, but in a Web based environment. This course has similar topics but includes the use of Dashboards and Portlets for a high-level overview. Includes a Schedule Checker.

We are scheduling online courses every week to meet the demand, so please contact [email protected] to register your interest.

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