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Primavera P6 Basics Online Training Course

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This live online course is an introduction to Primavera P6. Attendees will gain an understanding of the principles and best practices of CPM scheduling in addition to hands-on experience building a P6 schedule from scratch, updating and monitoring the schedule, and generating reports.

This 2-day live online course is taught by a Primavera P6 certified instructor, who will explain the detailed functions and address questions as the class progresses. Participants may use the provided Primavera P6 training server or their own P6 license for course exercises. A Certificate of Successful Training with Oracle's Primavera P6 is awarded upon completion of training.

Day 1

  • Instructor / participant introductions
  • Scheduling fundamentals
    • Critical Path Management (CPM)
    • Terminology: Critical Path, Total Float, Free Float, Lag, Lead, Layout, Baseline, etc.
    • Schedule compression techniques (Crashing, Fast Tracking)
    • Scheduling best practices
  • An Introduction to Oracle's Primavera P6 Professional
  • Describe enterprise and project-specific data
  • Log in
  • Open an existing project
  • Navigate in the Home window and Activities window
  • Open an existing layout
  • Customize a layout
  • Save a layout
  • Creating the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
  • View the EPS
  • The OBS / Responsible Managers
  • Create a project
  • Navigate in the Projects window
  • View and modify information in Project Details
  • Define a Work Breakdown Structure
  • Create multiple levels of a WBS hierarchy
  • 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 codes to activities
  • View a network logic diagram
  • Differentiate between the four relationship types
  • Create relationships in the Activity Network
  • Create relationships in Activity Details
  • Perform a forward and backward pass
  • Describe float and its impact on a schedule
  • Identify loops and open ends
  • Calculate a schedule
  • Analyze the scheduling log report
  • Apply an overall deadline to a project
  • Apply a constraint to an individual activity
  • Add notebook topics to constrained activities
  • Describe the available constraint types
  • 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(s) to an activity or WBS
  • Group activities according to a specific criteria
  • Sort activities
  • Apply a filter
  • Create a filter
  • Describe roles
  • Views the roles dictionary
  • Describe resources
  • Identify the differences between labor, non-labor and material resources
  • View the resource dictionary

Day 2

  • Assign resources by role
  • Assign labor, non-labor, and material resources to activities
  • Adjust Budgeted Units/Time for a resource
  • Assign expenses to activities
  • Display the Resource Usage Profile
  • Format a profile
  • Format the timescale
  • Analyze schedule dates
  • Shorten a project schedule
  • Analyze resource availability
  • Remove resource over allocation
  • Analyze project costs
  • Create a baseline plan
  • Display baseline bars on the Gantt Chart
  • Modify the bars on the Gantt Chart
  • Describe several methods for updating the project schedule
  • Use Progress Spotlight
  • Status activities
  • Reschedule the project
  • Describe reporting methods
  • Run a schedule report
  • Create a resource report with the Report wizard
  • Create a report using the current layout
  • Displaying select info: Tabular info, Gantt info, histograms, S-curves, etc.
  • Modify the report layout (Headers, Footers, Add Logos, etc.)
  • Participants are welcome to discuss scheduling requirements and get instructor feedback!

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