Planning & Control with Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional

This course aims to teach participants:

• Introduction to the user interface,
• How to plan projects without resources,
• Filters layouts, printing,
• Baselines and Updating an un-resourced project,
• Creating and assigning roles and resources,
• Controlling projects with resources and costs,
• Setting up and administering a database,
• Plus some advanced features including Import/Export, Activity Codes, Custom Data Fields and Global Change.

The following people should consider attending this course:

• Programme Managers and Project Control staff evaluating the software against your organisational requirements.
• Project schedulers who wish to learn how to use the software to schedule and control projects.
• Database managers who wish to understand how to set up and administer a database.
• Experienced project personal who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.

Students should have:

• The ability to use a personal computer and understand the fundamentals of the operating system,
• Experience using application software such as Microsoft Office and
• An understanding of how projects are planned, scheduled and controlled, including understanding the project management processes applicable to your projects.

COURSE CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Creating a Project Plan
3. Starting Up and Navigation
4. Creating a New Project
5. Defining Calendars
6. Creating a Primavera Project WBS
7. Adding Activities and Organizing Under The WBS
8. Formatting the Display
9. Adding Relationships
10. Activity Network View
11. Constraints
12. Group, Sort and Layouts
13. Filters
14. Printing, Reports and Visualizer
15. Scheduling Options and Setting a Baseline
16. Updating an Unresourced Schedule
17. User and Administration Preferences
18. Creating Roles and Resources
19. Assigning Roles, Resources and Expenses
20. Resource Optimization
21. Updating a Resourced Schedule
22. Other Methods of Organizing Project Data, Activity Codes and User Defined Fields
23. Global Change
24. Managing the Enterprise Environment
25. Multiple Project Scheduling
26. Utilities, Reflection Projects, Audit Trail, Import and Export
27. Earned Value Management with P6

• Programme Managers and Project Control staff evaluating the software against your organisational requirements.
• Project schedulers who wish to learn how to use the software to schedule and control projects.
• Database managers who wish to understand how to set up and administer a database.
• Experienced project personal who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.