Primavera P6 Planning and Control
Learn how create and structure enterprise projects and programmes.
Course overview
Duration: 2 days (13 hours)
Our P6 Project Planning and Controls Fundamentals course is an intensive two day course aimed at experienced planners and project controllers who need to use Primavera to create and manage detailed plans. It includes creating EPS levels, projects, WBS levels and detailed activity and resource planning.
Experience of project planning and scheduling techniques is essential.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Create a programme structure
- Create projects and set project properties
- Create programme milestones
- Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Create detailed plans including activities, links and resources
- Progress the schedule
- Manage actuals
- Customise layouts
- Use the reporting tools in Primavera
Content
Programme Management
- Creating EPS elements
- Defining the programme structure
- Navigating the EPS structure
- Finding programmes
Project Management and WBS
- Creating projects
- Setting project properties
- Validating projects
- Assigning project codes
- Building a work breakdown structure
- Creating a WBS structure
- Creating WBS elements
- Work package management
Top Down budgets
- Allocating top down budgets
- Budget change
Programming milestones and activity planning
- Creating programme milestones
- Setting constraints
- Linking milestones
- Scheduling
- Using the schedule function
- Detailed activity planning
- Creating activities
- Relationship types
- Creating relationships
- Adding milestones
- Assigning activity codes
Resourcing, workloads and baselining
- Resource types
- Creating resources
- Resource attributes
- Assigning resources
- Switching resources
- Split load resource assignment
- Reduced hours resource assignment
- Checking workload
- Reviewing workload
- Dealing with resource conflicts
- Assignments view
- Baselining
- Creating baselines
- Assigning baselines
Working with layouts
- Creating layouts
- Customising columns
- Setting filters
- Sorting and grouping
- Changing the timescale
- Customising the Gantt
- Creating activity code breakdown structures
Progressing the schedules
- Updating task status and remaining duration
- Setting the data date
Monitoring and reporting
- Exporting and importing information
- Primavera standard reports
- Creating custom reports
- Creating portfolios
Printing
- Printing your schedule
- Printing to other packages
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