Primavera

comprehensive, high performance, multi-project planning and control software. It supports an unlimited number of projects, project groups or programs, activities, baselines, resources, and user-defined WBS and activity codes It has capability to handle large-scale, highly sophisticated and multifaceted projects, to organize projects up to 100,000 activities, providing unlimited resources and an unlimited number of target plans. Primavera gives a multitude of ways to organize, filter and sort activities, projects, and resources. It has a rich graphical interface to plan and manage and report on projects. It provides colored bands to organize data by project code, activity code, resource, cost accounts, WBS. It also offers powerful scheduling and resource leveling options, including backward resource leveling, smoothing and the ability to level selected portions of a project

Module 1

Navigation

• Primavera P6 overview
• An introduction to Primavera P6
• Logging In
• Dashboards, Portfolios, Projects and Resources Tabs
• Project Workspaces
• Navigating the Project Pages
• Chapter summary

MODULE 2

Project Structures

• Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
• Modifying the EPS
• Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
• User Administration
• Setting User Perferences
• Chapter summary

MODULE 3

Project Creation

• Project creation overview
• Project Calendars
• Working with calendars
• Creating a new project
• Chapter summary

MODULE 4

The Work Breakdown Structure

• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) overview
• Defining a WBS
• Modifying the WBS
• Chapter summary

MODULE 5

Project Time Management

• Activities overview
• Describing an Activity and its attributes
• Working with Activity Types
• Adding Activities
• Understanding Duration Types
• Assigning Activity Codes
• Global Calendar
• Resource Calendar
• Chapter summary

MODULE 6

Relationships and Constraints

• Relationships overview
• Relationship Types
• Creating Relationships
• Performing a Forward and Backward Pass
• Apply a Constraint to an Activity
• Scheduling
• Critical Path Method
• Modifying the Project Duration
• Chapter summary

MODULE 7

Roles and Resources Management

• Resources and Roles overview
• Types of Resources
• Creating Resources
• Describing Roles and Resources
• Assigning Roles to an Activity
• Assign Rates on Roles
• Assigning Resources
• Analyzing Resource Assignments
• Resource Curves
• Chapter summary

MODULE 8

Formatting Project Data

• Formatting overview
• Grouping
• Sorting
• Filtering
• Chapter summary

MODULE 9

Project Cost Management

• •     Activity Costing
  •     Expenses
  •     Estimating Budgeted and Actual cost for Activities
  •     Establishing budgets for Work Packages
  •     Estimating Project Budgets
  •     Preparing Project Cash Flow
  •     Cost Comparison Analysis
  •     Cost Monitoring & Revisions
  •     Project Budget revisions

MODULE 10

Analysis, Risks and Issues

• Analysis overview
• Working with Check Schedule
• Adjusting the Project Schedule
• Analyzing Resource Availability
• Entering Risks
• Entering Issues
• Chapter summary

MODULE 11

Baselines

• Baselines overview
• Creating a baseline
• Working with baselines
• Chapter summary

MODULE 12

Progressing the Project

• Project execution overview
• Status update methods
• Using Progress Spotlight
• Progressing activity status
• Rescheduling the Project
• Chapter summary

MODULE 13

Printing, Publishing, Importing and Exporting

• Printing and Print Preview
• Publishing Activities
• Export and Importing