Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers

Primavera software management basic skills to manage projects

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Management is the very important in an organisation. Without control, the execution of the projects cannot produce the desired output. There is the critical need for a management software that can manage the project. The Primavera is a project management and control software. It is used to handle, organise and filter projects With the Pentagon’s Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers course, you will understand the basics of Primavera software.

This course provides the knowledge of work breakdown structure (WBS) to make you understand about the WBS hierarchy. Also, the instructors will give knowledge on how to create a project, how to add activities and how to schedule data. The understanding of these concepts equips you to use the Primavera software.

Who should take this course

This course is designed for the project managers who wish to manage projects using the Primavera Management Software.

Prerequisites

There are no requirements for the fundamental P6 software course, but basic knowledge of project management is recommended.

What Will You Learn

By undergoing the P6 software training, the delegates will learn about:

Creation of a project in Primavera P6
Addition of activities
Scheduling of tasks
Allocation of resources
Controlling and Execution of a project
Handling of risks
Work Breakdown Structure and its hierarchy
Calendars and its views
Resources and their roles
Optimisation of project plan

Certificate

Key Learning Points

Tutor Support

Course Overview

The Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers course provides the knowledge of the project lifecycle as well as Primavera software concepts. By undergoing this course, you will know how to create, schedule and execute the whole project. Also, you will get a deep understanding of the how to add activities, allocate resources and schedule tasks. This course is offered at the best price for the accomplishment of best skills in Primavera software.

Course Content

An introduction to P6 Data

An introduction to Project Portfolio Management P6
Introducing the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) and Organizational Breakdown
Navigation of the main menu and getting P6 help
Difference of project data and enterprise data
Opening of a project and layouts
Logging in to the software

Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

An introduction to EPS
The various features of EPS

Creating a Project

How to create a project?
Creating work breakdown structure
Navigation in the Projects Window
Linking projects
Viewing Project Details

Generating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

An Introduction to WBS
Creating the WBS Hierarchy

Adding Activities

Describing an Activity and its types
Defining business relationships
Adding Activities and Notebook topics
Understanding steps of an activity
Assigning activity codes

P6 Calendars

Creating calendars
Viewing calendars
Assigning schedules to activities

Producing Relationships

Displaying a Network Logic Diagram
Building Relationships
Explaining various connection types

Scheduling

An Introduction to Critical Path Method Scheduling and the Impact of Float

Accomplishment of Forwarding and Backwards passes
The out of Sequence activities

Describing Float

Assigning Constraints

Deliberating a general deadline to a Project
Smearing constraint to an activity

Progressing projects

How to apply development?
The updating of individual activities
Measuring project performance

Using Reflection Projects

Generating a reflection project
Assimilating changes

Formatting Schedule Data

How to Group methods?
Defining sorting and filtering

Describing Roles and Resources

An Introduction to functions and resources
The Viewing of Dictionaries
Assigning roles to a process
Allocating rates on roles

Assigning Resources

Allocating resources
Adapting budgeted units/time

Investigating resources

Indicating the resource usage profile

Layouts Filters, Group and Sort

Using layouts and reporting layouts
Introducing filtering, grouping and sorting
Modifying columns and Gantt chart bars
Using project documents
Using p6 document function

The Reporting a Project Key

Producing standard report
Creating time distributed reports

Using P6 Visualizer

An Overview of Visualizer basic operations
Understanding the Options and Imports functions
Creating new timescale logic diagram
Creating new Gantt chart

Enhancing the Project Plan

Investigating schedule dates and resource obtainability
Limiting a project schedule

An Introduction to Baselining the Project Plan

Creation of a Baseline Plan
Represent Baseline Bars on the Gantt Chart

Project Execution and Control

Determining methods for informing the schedule
Understanding Progress Spotlight
Stat using Actions
Rearranging Project

Reporting Performance

Describing reporting methods

Executing a Schedule Report

Generating a report with the Report Wizard

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