Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Rel 21 Course Overview

Course Prerequisites

Who Should Attend Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Rel 21 Training

This course is designed for project management professionals seeking to enhance their expertise in project planning, scheduling, and resource management using Oracle Primavera P6.

Job Roles and Audience

• Project Managers and Project Coordinators
• Planning Engineers and Schedulers
• Construction Managers and Site Engineers
• Resource Managers and Team Leads
• Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers
• IT Project Managers and Consultants
• Program Managers overseeing large-scale projects
• Professionals transitioning into project management roles
• PMO staff responsible for project planning and reporting
• Individuals aiming to master Primavera P6 for career advancement

What you will Learn in this Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Rel 21?

This course equips learners with a thorough understanding of Oracle Primavera P6, focusing on project lifecycle management, scheduling, resource allocation, and progress tracking. Gain practical skills to optimize and execute project plans effectively.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

• Understand the Project Management Life Cycle and its five process groups.
• Navigate and customize layouts in Primavera P6 Professional.
• Create projects, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and activities.
• Assign calendars, relationships, and constraints to activities.
• Perform Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling and analyze scheduling logs.
• Assign roles, resources, and expenses to activities.
• Create baseline plans and analyze schedule variances.
• Import and export project data seamlessly.
• Generate and customize reports, including schedule and resource reports.
• Manage project documents and perform schedule comparisons.

Course Outline

Section I: Overview and Creating a Project

Lesson 1 – Project Management Life Cycle

• Identify the five process groups in the Project Management Life Cycle.
• Describe the steps included in each process group.

Lesson 2 - Understanding Data in P6

• Describe P6 Professional.
• Describe the Enterprise Project Structure.
• Describe the Organizational Breakdown Structure.
• Distinguish between enterprise data and project-specific data.

Lesson 3 - Overview and Navigation

• Log in to P6 Professional.
• Open an existing project.
• Open and navigate among different windows.
• Open an existing layout.
• Customize a layout.
• Save a layout.

Lesson 4 - Creating a Project

• Create a project.
• Navigate in the Projects window.
• View and modify information in Project Details.

Lesson 5 - Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

• Define a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Create multiple levels of a WBS hierarchy.

Lesson 6 - Adding Activities

• Describe an activity and its components.
• Describe activity types.

• Add activities.
• Add a Notebook topic to an activity.
• Add steps to an activity.
• Assign activity code values to activities.

Case Study 1 - Creating a Project

Section II: Scheduling and Assigning Resources

Lesson 7 - Assigning Calendars

• Define work time and non-work time.
• Explain the differences between global, project, and resource calendars.
• Create a new project calendar.

Lesson 8 - Creating Relationships

• View a network logic diagram.
• Describe the four relationship types.
• Create relationships in the Activity Network.
• Create relationships in Activity Details.

Lesson 9 - Scheduling

• Describe Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling.
• Perform a forward and a backward pass.
• Describe float and its impact on a schedule.
• Identify loops and open ends.
• Calculate a schedule.
• Analyze the scheduling log report.

Lesson 10 - Assigning Constraints

• Describe available constraint types.
• Apply Must Finish By constraint to a project.
• Apply a Start On or After constraint to an activity.
• Adding a comment to an activity.
• Add a Notebook topic to a constrained activity.

Lesson 11 - Creating Layouts

• Group activities according to specific criteria.
• Sort activities.
• Apply a filter.
• Create a filter.

Lesson 12 - Understanding Roles and Resources

• Describe roles and view the roles dictionary.
• Describe resources and view the resource dictionary.
• Identify the differences between labor, nonlabor, and material resources.

Lesson 13 - Assigning Roles and Resources

• Assign roles to an activity.
• Assign rates on roles.
• Assign resources to an activity by role and directly from the resource dictionary.
• Adjust Budgeted Units/Time for a resource.
• Assign expenses to activities.

Lesson 14 - Optimizing the Project Plan

• Analyze schedule dates.
• Shorten a project schedule.
• Analyze resource availability.
• Resolve resource overallocation.
• Analyze project costs.

Case Study 2 – Optimizing the Project

Section III: Baselining and Executing

Lesson 15 – Baselining the Project Plan

• Create a baseline plan.
• Display baseline bars on the Gantt chart.
• Modify the bars on the Gantt chart.

Lesson 16 - Importing and Exporting Data

• Describe the process of importing and exporting data.
• Export a project.
• Import a project.

Lesson 17 - Methods of Applying Progress

• Describe methods for applying progress to a project.

Lesson 18 - Executing the Project Plan

• Use Progress Spotlight.
• Update the status of completed activities and activities in progress.
• Reschedule the project.

Lesson 19 - Reflection Projects

• Create a reflection project.
• Merge changes from reflection project into source project.

Lesson 20 - Analyzing the Updated Project

• Analyze schedule dates, resource availability/allocation, and project costs.
• Identify areas where the project is falling behind schedule or exceeding planned costs.
• Make changes necessary to address variances.
• Understand the importance of analyzing a project after every status update.

Lesson 21 - Reporting Performance

• Describe reporting methods.
• Run a schedule report.
• Create a resource report with the Report wizard.
• Create a time distributed report.
• Create a report using the current layout.

Case Study 3 – Execution and Control

Section IV: Appendices

Appendix A - Creating Output

• Customize the appearance of headers and footers.
• Insert and format the curtain and text attachment tools.
• Format the appearance of the data date.

Appendix B - Managing Work Products and Documents

• Describe the difference between a work product and a reference document.
• Create a document record.
• Link the document record to a project document or work product.
• Assign the project document to an activity or WBS.

Appendix C – Schedule Comparison

• Describe how Schedule Comparison compares project plans.
• Create a comparison report.

What makes Koenig Solutions a Compelling Choice for Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Rel 21 Training?