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Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Rel 15

Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Rel 8.3

Duration: 2 Days

What you will learn

This Primavera P6 Professional training leads you through the entire project life cycle, from planning to execution. You'll develop a thorough understanding of how to plan and schedule.

Learn To:

Create and schedule a project. Assign resources. Adjust the project schedule. Execute and control the project. Add activities.

Benefits to You

Enrolling in this course will help you understand P6 Professional’s basic features and functionalities so you can apply them to your organization’s project management processes. You'll also learn how to manage projects on time and within budget to ensure optimal outcomes from capital and resource investments.

Explore Project Management Fundamentals

All workshops and instruction stress the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resources and costs. At the end of each day, you'll apply the concepts and functionality you learned in a case study. The course is divided into three sections: Creating a Project; Scheduling the Project; Project Execution and Control.

Use P6 Professional

The course uses P6 Professional, Primavera's Windows-based, client/server application. It is appropriate for those using P6 Professional either as a stand-alone application or as part of P6 EPPM.

Continuing Education Units Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 14 PDUs. Please note that this course uses the P6 Optional Client (Windows-based client).

Audience

Business Analysts End Users Functional Implementer Project Manager

Course Objectives

• Create a project
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure Add activities 
• View calendars 
• Create relationships 
• Schedule the project 
• Assign constraints 
• Format schedule data 
• Define roles and resources 
• Assign roles 
• Assign resources 
• Analyze resources 

• Optimize the project plan 

• Execute the project 
• Create reports 
• Understand data structures

Course Topics

Understanding P6 Data

• Describing Enterprise and Project-Specific data Logging In
• Opening an Existing Project 
• Opening and Customizing Layouts

Enterprise Project Structure

• Describing Components of EPS

Creating a Project

• Create a project
• Navigating in the Projects Window 
• Viewing Project Details

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

• Defining a Work Breakdown Structure
• Creating the WBS Hierarchy

Adding Activities

• Describing an Activity and its Components
• Describing Activity Types
• Adding Activities 
• Adding a Notebook Topic 
• Adding Steps to an Activity 
• Assigning Activity Codes

Creating Relationships

• Viewing a Network Logic
• Diagram Relationship Types
• Creating Relationships

Scheduling

• Performing a Forward and Backward Pass
• Describing Float

Assigning Constraints

• Applying an Overall Deadline to a Project
• Apply a Constraint to an Activity

Using Reflection Projects

• Creating a Reflection Project
• Merging Changes

Formatting Schedule Data

• Grouping Activities Sorting
• Filtering

Roles and Resources

• Describing Roles and Resources
• Viewing Dictionaries

Assigning Roles

• Assigning Roles to an Activity
• Assign Rates on Roles

Assigning Resources

• Assigning Resources
• Adjusting Budgeted Units/Time

Analyzing Resources

• Displaying the Resource Usage Profile

Optimizing the Project Plan

• Analyzing Schedule Dates
• Shortening a Project Schedule
• Analyzing Resource Availability

Baselining the Project Plan

• Creating a Baseline Plan
• Display Baseline Bars on the Gantt Chart

Project Execution and Control

• Describing Methods for Updating the Schedule
• Using Progress Spotlight
• Statusing Activities 
• Rescheduling the Project

Reporting Performance

• Describing Reporting Methods
• Running a Schedule Report 
• Creating a report with the Report Wizard

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Primavera P6 Professional Advanced R15

Duration: 2 Days

What you will learn

This Primavera P6 Professional Advanced R15 training teaches you about resource management topics like manual allocation, bucket planning and leveling. Project management topics include earned value analysis, advanced scheduling and creating timescaled logic diagrams via Visualizer.

Learn To:

Use bucket planning.

Use resource leveling.

Use earned value analysis.

Calculate percent complete.

Calculate multiple float paths.

Analyze resource usage.

Benefits to You

Understand P6 Professional’s advanced resource and project management functionality so you can make improved decisions when managing your projects. You'll learn how to manage resources effectively to maximize investment and use advanced project management techniques to ensure maximum return on investment.

Continuing Education Units

Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:

13 PDUs. Please note that this course uses the P6 Optional Client (Windows based client)

Audience

Business Analysts

End Users

Functional Implementer

Project Manager

Related Training

Required Prerequisites

Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals

Suggested Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of P6 Professional

Basic project management knowledge

Course Objectives

• Use the Assignments window
• Assign cost accounts
• Analyze resources
• Bucket planning
• Level resources
• Use earned value
• Analyze resources and roles
• Calculate percent complete
• Use advanced scheduling technqiues
• Use timescaled logic diagrams

Course Topics

Using Earned Value Analysis

• Calculating Planned Value Cost
• Calculating Actual Cost
• Calculating Earned Value Cost
• Measuring Performance Percent Complete

Managing Multiple Projects

• Opening Multiple Projects
• Setting the Default Project

Analyzing Resources and Roles

• Using the Resource Usage Profile
• Using the Resource Usage Spreadsheet

Manually Allocating Resources

• Viewing the Assignments Window
• Viewing and Editing Allocation

Using Bucket Planning

• Editing Future Buckets
• Using Curves

Leveling Resources

• Setting Leveling Options
• Leveling Based on Priority

Advanced Scheduling

• Multiple Float Paths
• Calendar Effect on Lag
• Scheduling Out-of-Sequence Activities

Using Primavera Visualizer

• Choosing a Template
• Creating Timescaled Logic Diagrams
• Customizing the Gantt Chart

Primavera P6 Analytics Rel 8.x

Duration: 2 Days

What you will learn

This Primavera P6 Analytics Rel 8.x training is ideal for administrators and end-users using Primavera P6 Analytics (R1.2) with Primavera P6 R8.0 or R8.1. Use P6 project management data to create basic requests, create filters, build views and charts in requests, build gauge views and pivot tables and create dashboards.

Learn To:

• Create requests.
• Create views.
• Build charts.
• Build pivot tables.
• Customize dashboards.

Explore Oracle BI Publisher & Oracle BI Deliver

Oracle BI Publisher and BI Deliver are covered as well. This 2-day course concludes with a case study in which key functionality is reinforced to solidify your learning. P6 Analytics is based on Oracle's Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Audience

• Administrator
• Functional Implementer
• Project Manager

Course Objectives

Creating requests Filtering requests Creating charts Working with views Creating gauge views Creating pivot tables Building dashboards

• Use BI Delivers
• Use BI Publisher

Course Topics

Creating Requests

• Customizing Columns
• Adding Conditional Formatting

Filtering Requests

• Creating and Editing a Filter
• Parenthetical Filtering
• Filtering and Drilling
• Creating Prompts

Creating Charts and Working with Views

• Adding a Chart to a Request
• Formatting a Chart
• Adding Bins

Creating Gauge Views and Pivot Tables

• Adding a Gauge View to a Request
• Customizing a Gauge View
• Adding a Pivot Table to a Request
• Formatting a Pivot Table

BI Dashboards

• Adding Content to a Dashboard
• Creating Dashboard Prompts

BI Publisher and BI Delivers

Viewing BI Publisher Reports Using iBots in BI Delivers

Introduction to Primavera Risk Analysis Rel 8.7

Duration: 2 Days

What you will learn

The two-day course covers how to model uncertainty and risk events in your schedule and to evaluate your deterministic schedule against the results of a risk loaded monte-carlo simulation.  The results provide the user with an understanding of how to model a statistically proven likelihood of completing the project on time/ on budget, how to examine areas of the schedule for more detailed focus and attention, and how to model the cost/benefit analysis for risk mitigation strategies.

Learn to:

Understand the benefits of running monte carlo simulations on a CPM schedule Perform a schedule validation Perform a pre-analysis check Develop a risk model using various components, including the risk register Run a risk analysis Understand risk types Define resource and cost uncertainty Analyze and review a risk model Integrate Primavera P6 schedule data in Primavera Risk Analysis

Audience:

Scheduler Risk Manager PMO Officer Functional Implementer

Course Objectives

• Understand risk types
• Understand the benefits of running monte carlo simulations on a CPM schedule Perform a schedule validation
• Perform a pre-analysis check
• Develop a risk model using various components, including the risk register
• Run a risk analysis
• Understand risk types
• Define resource and cost uncertainty
• Analyze and review a risk model
• Integrate Primavera P6 schedule data in Primavera Risk Analysis

Course Topics

Primavera Risk Analysis Methodology Introduction to Primavera Risk Analysis Primavera Risk Analysis

Overview and Navigation

• What is Primavera Risk Analysis?
• Primavera Risk Analysis Methodology
• Schedule Validation
• Pre-­‐Analysis Check
• Develop Risk Model
• Run Risk Analysis
• Review Results
• Navigation in Primavera Risk Analysis
• Accessing the Training Files
• Opening a Project Plan
• Workspace, Sheets, and Views
• Menus and Icons

Understanding Risk

• Types of Risk
• Risk Analysis and the Critical Path
• Skewed Distributions
• Risk is Cumulative
• Risk Identification: Getting it Right vs Playing It Safe
• Risk Events: Different Kinds of Impact

Schedule Review

• Schedule Check Report - Schedule Check Options
• Generating the Report
• Reading the Results

Pre-­Analysis Check

• Duration Quick Risk
• Run Risk Analysis
• Distribution Graph
• Tornado Graph
• Targeting Project Drivers

Applying Duration Uncertainty

• Applying Uncertainty Estimates to Individual Tasks
• Templated Quick Risk
• Preparing the Project Plan
• Fine-­‐Tuning Templates

Task Existence/Existence Probability

• Single Impact Risk Event
• Specifying Existence Probability
• Analyzing the Results

Basic Probabilistic Branching

• Exclusive Impacts
• Analyzing the Results

Advanced Probabilistic Branching 

• Structuring Probabilistic Branches
• Adding Option Milestones
• Linking to the Milestones
• Adding Refurbishing Tasks
• Structuring the Branches
• Assigning Option Probabilities
• Analyzing the Results

Risk Register

• Entering Risks into the Register
• Entering a Mitigation Response
• Importing a Risk Register
• Risk Scoring, Risk Matrix, Reports, and More
• Mapping Risks to Your Schedule
• Adjusting Probability and Impacts
• Building the Impacted Risk Plans
• Analyzing the Results
• Weather Modeling

Correlation

• Making Risk Models More Realistic
• Correlation and the Central Limit Theorem
• Restoring Equivalence 

Resource and Cost Uncertainty

• Fixed-­Cost Uncertainty
• Resource Rate Uncertainty
• Resource Allocation Uncertainty

Analyze and Review

• Using the Distribution Analyzer
• Using the Tornado Graph
• Reporting
• P-­‐Schedules

Appendix A: Working With Primavera

• Defining Data Fields
• Monitoring the Import

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• Log and track submittals.
• Document project issues.
• Manage project costs.
• Award procurement items.
• Manage contracts and purchase orders.
• Manage payment requisitions.
• Enter and track company- and project-related data in Contract Management.

• Use drawings
• Communicate project information
• Log and track submittals
• Document project issues
• Manage costs
• Award procurement items
• Manage contracts
• Customize layouts
• Connect to a P6 schedule
• Create a project

• Creating the Company Directory
• Adding a New Company
• Copying Contacts

• Defining the Project

• Adding a Document
• Recording Revisions
• Using Transmittals

• Creating a Submittal
• Defining Workflow
• Tracking Approvals

• Daily Reports
• Meeting Minutes

• Using the Cost Worksheet
• Defining Cost Codes

• Budgeted and Committed Contracts
• Creating a Purchase Order
• Creating a Trend Document

• Documenting Quotes
• Completing Negotiations

• Schedule of Values
• Retainage
• Updating and Certifying a Requisition

• Recording a Violation
• Generating an Injury or Illness Report

• Linking to P6
• Documents and P6 Dates

Obtain a 10% discount by attending this course over the web rather than attending in-class.