Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers

Every organisation needs effective management in order to provide quality service or product to the customer. To control the execution and delivery of the project, it is very necessary to monitor the task going on within the project continuously. This is where a manager comes into play.

Primavera is well-known software for managing and controlling the project activities. We at MSP introduces Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals for Project Managers course to provide basic knowledge regarding the Primavera software. This includes an introduction to Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that help the delegates to work in a planned manner.   

This training includes everything a project manager needs from creating a project to adding activities and scheduling the available data resources. During the Primavera training, our trainer will help the delegates to use this software for best management processes.

We provide flexible training programs like online, onsite and classroom training. Those professionals who are already in the same field and want to upgrade their skills may also join this course.

Overview of P6 Data

• Define Project Portfolio Management P6
• Define Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) and Organizational Breakdown
• Main menu navigation and P6 help
• Differentiate between project data and enterprise data
• Open project and layouts
• Log in to the software

Overview of Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

• An introduction to EPS
• The various features of EPS

Overview of Creating a Project

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

Overview of Generating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Define WBS
• Create the WBS Hierarchy

Overview of Add Activities

• Describe an Activity and its types
• Define business relationships
• Add Activities and Notebook topics
• Understand steps of an activity
• Assign activity codes

Overview of P6 Calendars

• Create calendars
• View calendars
• Assign schedules to activities

Produce Relationships

• Displaying a Network Logic Diagram
• Building Relationships
• Explaining various connection types

Overview of Scheduling

• An Introduction to Critical Path Method Scheduling and the Impact of Float
• Accomplishment of Forwarding and Backwards passes
• Sequence activities
• Describing Float

Overview of Assigning Constraints

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

Overview of Progressing projects

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

Use Reflection Projects

• Generating a reflection project
• Assimilating changes

Format Schedule Data

• How to Group methods?
• Defining sorting and filtering

Describe Roles and Resources

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

Overview of Assigning Resources

• Allocate resources
• Adapt budgeted units/time
• Investigate resources
• Indicate the resource usage profile

Layouts Filters, Group and Sort

• Use layouts and reporting layouts
• Introduce filtering, grouping and sorting
• Modify columns and Gantt chart bars
• Use project documents
• Use of p6 document function

Overview of 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

• Investigate schedule dates and resource obtainability
• Limit 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
• Define Progress Spotlight
• Stat using Actions
• Rearrange Project

Overview of Reporting Performance

• Describe reporting methods
• Execute a Schedule Report
• Generate a report with the Report Wizard