Training Schedule

PRIMAVERA P6.1
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Course Detail and its schedule
Total Duration: 60Hrs

Duration: 3 Hrs
 INTRODUCTION
Purpose/Importance of planning in project management.
Project Management process overview.
Project Planning through Primavera
Project Portfolio Management
Project Management process overview.
Overall Tour to Primavera-Planning tool

 QUICK TOUR
Starting up
Customizing displays
selecting the language
Layouts
Sample Layouts

Duration:3 Hrs

 CREATING A NEW PROJECT

File Types
Enterprise project Structure (EPS)
Setting up Eps
Organizational breakdown Structure
Setting OBS
Creating a new project
Project Architect wizard and methodology Manager
Importing a project
Copy existing project
Project Dates

 CREATING CALENDERS
Global and project Calendar
Assigning the project Default project Calendar
Creating a new Calendar
Copying Calendars
Renaming a Calendars
Deleting a Calendars
Resource Calendars
Editing Calendar Working Days of an Existing Calendar
Adjusting Working Hours
Inherit Holidays and Exceptions from a Global Calendar
Calculation of summary Durations

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Duration:3 Hrs

 REVIEWING WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES

The WBS
Viewing WBS
Creating and Deleting a WBS Node
Adding WBS elements and assigning properties

 DEFINING/ASSIGNING/ ORGANIZING ACTIVITIES TO WBS

New activity Defaults
Adding new activities
Copying activities in primavera version 5.0
Copying activities from other programs
Elapsed Durations
Finding the Bars in the Gantt Chart
Activity Information –Bottom layout
Assigning Calendars to activities
Undo
Assigning activities to a WBS Node
Reordering or sorting activities
Summarizing activities using WBS

Duration:3 Hrs

 GROUP, SORT AND LAYOUTS

Group and sort activities
Group and sort projects at Enterprise level
Understanding layouts
Applying an existing layout
Creating a new layout
Editing a layout
Layout types

 FILTERS
Understanding Filters
Applying a Filter
Creating a new filter
Modifying a filter

Duration:6 Hrs

 ADDING RELATIONSHIPS
Understanding relationships
Understanding lags and leads
Displaying the relationships on the Bar Chart
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Adding and removing relationships
Using the command Toolbar buttons to Assign Relationships
Dissolving Activities
Circular Relationships
Scheduling the projects
Critical activities definition

 ACTIVITY NETWORK VIEW

Viewing a project using the activity network view
Adding, deleting and dissolving activities in the activity
Adding , Editing and deleting Relationships
Formatting the activity Boxes
Reorganizing the activity network
Saving and opening activity network positions
Early Date , late date and float Calculations

Duration:3 Hrs
 DEFINING RESOURCES AND ROLES
Overview
Viewing and adding resources
Defining resources
Defining custom resources curves

Duration:6 Hrs
 ASSIGNING ROLES, RESOURCES AND EXPENSES
Understanding resource calculations and Terminology
Project workspace resource preferences
User preferences applicable to assigning resources
Activity workspace resource preferences and defaults
Assigning and removing roles
Assigning and removing resources
Expenses
Suggested setup for creating a resourced schedule
Reviewing resources

Duration:6 Hrs
 MANAGING/ASSIGNING BASELINES AND ITS USES
Creating and Maintaining the Baselines
Assigning baselines to the project
Comparison-Current and baselines schedule
Baselines updates

 UPDATING SCHEDULING AND LEVELLING

Basic understandings
Progress updates
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Methods for updating progress
Scheduling the projects
project leveling
Progress spotlight
Managing resources assignments

Duration:6 Hrs
 CONSTRAINTS
Assigning Constraints
Project most finish by Date
Activity Notebook
Use of constraints for producing Claim reports, EOT’s…….etc.

 STATUSING A RESOURCED SCHEDULE

Understanding Budget values and Baseline projects
Understanding the current data Date
Information required to update a resourced schedule
Project workspace defaults for Statusing a resourced schedule
Activity workspace –percent complete types
Using steps to calculate activity percent complete
Updating the schedule
Updating resources
Updating expenses
Store period performance

Duration:3 Hrs
 ACTIVITY, PROJECT & RESOURCE CODES
Understanding project breakdown structures
Activity codes
Project codes
Project phase or WBS category
Resource codes
Cost Accounts
Organizational breakdown structure –OBS
EPS Level Activity codes

Duration:3 Hrs

 DEFINING BUDGETS
Overview
Top Down Budgeting
Establishing a monthly spending Plan
Tracking Budget Changes

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Duration:3 Hrs

 DATA IMPORT AND EXPORT

From and to MS Excel, Older versions of primavera, MS Projects
 USER AND ADMINISTRATION PREFERENCES AND ADVANCED SCHEDULING
OPTIONS
User preferences
Admin menu
Miscellaneous defaults
Admin preferences
Scheduling options

 PROJECT ISSUES, THRESHOLD AND RISK MANAGEMENT.

Adding issues.
Adding/Monitoring thresholds.
Adding/managing risks.
Tracking Projects.

Duration:6 Hrs

 UTILITIES
Advanced scheduling options
Audit Trial columns
Excel Import and Export tool
Project Import and Export
Check in & Check out

 REPORTS
Creating Reports.
Customizing reports.

 PRINTING
printing
print preview
page setup
options Tab
Print Form
Print setup Form

Duration:6 Hrs

One complete set of small project with resource loadings- All complete

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