Primavera P6 Training

What is CPM Scheduling?

CPM Scheduling Examples

• Scheduling In Primavera P6
• Working with the P6 Scheduler
• Total Float and Project Deadlines
• Must Finish By Deadlines
• Understanding Calendars
• Creating Calendars

Assigning Calendars and using Fill-Down

• Understanding Constraints
• Applying Activity Constraints
• Organizing Activities and Renumbering Activity IDs
• Workshop
• Quiz

Introduction to Resource Management in Primavera P6

• Resource Concepts
• Essential Resource Configuration Fields in Primavera P6
• Adding Labor Resources

Adding Non-Labor Resources

• Adding Material Resources
• Understanding Resource Codes
• Adding and Administering Resource Codes
• Resource-Loading A Schedule
• Assigning Resources at the WBS Level using WBS Summary
• High-Level Resource Assignments
• Finding Resource Over-allocations
• Resolving Resource Over-allocations
• Workshop
• Quiz

• Cost Management Concepts
• Resource Costs

Setting a Default Resource Rate for the Project

• Increasing Resource Rates in Primavera P6
• Overriding Resource Rates
• Expense Costs in Primavera P6
• Adding Expenses in Primavera P6
• Cost Loading a P6 Project Step by Step
• WBS Summary & Level of Effort Costing
• Workshop
• Quiz

Introduction to Activity Codes in Primavera P6

• Activity Code Settings
• Creating & Assigning Activity Codes – Part 1
• Creating & Assigning Activity Codes – Part 2
• Grouping & Filtering Activity Codes
• Activity Code Types
• Copying, Importing & Exporting Projects with Activity Codes
• Assigning Activity Codes via Global Change
• Workshop
• Quiz

Primavera P6 Baseline Concepts

• Creating & Displaying a Baseline in Primavera P6
• Project Baselines & User Baselines
• Baseline Fields & Data in Primavera P6
• Updating a Baseline in Primavera P6
• Copying, Importing & Exporting P6 Projects with Baselines
• Evaluating Your Project Against a Baseline
• Final Thoughts on P6 Baselines
• Workshop
• Quiz

• Essential Concepts to Progressing a Schedule
• The Primavera P6 Data Date
• Actual Fields in Primavera P6
• Build A Great Progressing Layout
• The Pitfalls of Percent Complete Types
• Percent Complete Fields and Settings

A Walkthrough of Each Percent Complete Type

• Which % Complete Type To Use On Your Project
• Setting a % Complete Type for the Whole Project
• The Helpful Progress Spotlight Tool
• Progressing A Milestone
• Simple Activity Progressing
• Checklist: Simple Activity Progressing
• Progressing Resource & Cost-loaded Activities
• Checklist: Resource & Cost-loaded Activities
• Progressing Level of Effort and WBS Summaries
• Removing Progress and Fixing Mistakes
• Moving the Data Date
• Final Thoughts on Progressing
• Workshop
• Quiz

Advanced Primavera P6 Reporting in Excel Course Welcome

• Exporting P6 Data to Excel, Reshaping and Charting
• Graphing Workarounds for Excel 2010 or Earlier
• Understanding Excel Charting Options
• Creating a Budget vs. Actual Costs Histogram
• Tips and Tricks to Plotting Data in Excel
• Graphing Banana Curves
• Earned Value Histograms with S-Curves
• More Earned Value Graphs