Planning & Scheduling with Primavera (P6)

June 20-24, 2009

Gulf Terrace Hotel, Al-Khobar,
Saudi Arabia
Introduction:
This course provides hands-on training for Primavera’s enterprise P6. Participants will gain a
thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling. Scheduling techniques will
be covered. This five-day course leads you through hands-on workshops that create and
track an entire project to completion. All workshops and instruction use the three basic elements of
project management: schedule, resource and costs.
Profession Development and Continuing Education Units:
• Earns 25 PDUs.
Learning Outcome:
At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:
 Create the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
 Create the Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
 Create a new Project
 Project Codes
 Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
 Add Activities & Activity Steps
 Activity Codes
 Create Activities Relationships
 CPM Calculations
 Scheduling the Project
 Add Constraints
 Formatting layouts
 Project Documents
 Define Roles & Resources
 Assign Roles & Resources and Costs
 Analyze Resource/Cost Usage
 Optimizing the Schedule
 Create Project baseline/Target
 Updating the project plan
 Creating performance reports
 Creating a project website

Course Contents:
This will be a 5-day training workshop that will run for approx 5 hours per day to cover the
following items:

Introduction

 Definitions;

 Project Management Life Cycle

 PM Life Cycle & Primavera

 Primavera Products

 P6 Components
 P6 Training Courses

2
Starting Primavera (P6)

 Data Types

 Logging in P6

 P6 Navigation

 Layouts

 Getting Help

3
Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)

 Responsible Managers

 OBS Dictionary

 OBS Benefits

4
Enterprise Project Structures (EPS)

 EPS Dictionary
 EPS Benefits

5
Creating a Project

 Methods of creating a Project

 New Project Wizard

 Project Window

 Project details

 Project Codes

6
Calendars

 Calendars Types

 Calendars Dictionary

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

 WBS Dictionary

 WBS Benefits

8
Activities & Activity Codes
 Activity Component

 Activity Types

 Adding Activities

 Activity details

 Activity Codes

 Activity Steps

9
Relationships

 Network Diagramming Methods

 Relationship Types

 Creating Relationships

 Relationship Lag Calculation

10
Scheduling

 Critical Path Method

 Abbreviations

 Data Date

 Scheduling (Manual Calculations)

 Scheduling in P6

 Log File

 Common Errors

11
Constraints

 Project Constraint

 Activity Constraints

 Applying Constraints

12
Formatting Layouts

 Grouping Data

 Sorting using Single Criteria

 Sorting using multiple Criteria's

 Filtering Data

13
Defining Role & Resources

 Resource Management Steps

 Role Dictionary

 Resources Dictionary

14
Assigning Role & Resources

 Assigning Roles

 Assign Resource by Role

 Add Resources

 Expenses

15
Analyzing Resources

 Resource Analysis settings

 Resources Usage Profile

 Formatting Resource Usage Profile

 Formatting Timescale

16
Optimizing the Project Plan

 Analyzing schedule dates

 Shortening the schedule

 Analyzing the resource Over Allocation

 Remove resource over Allocation

 Analyzing the Project Budget

17
Project Baseline

 Baseline Types

 Create Baseline

 Assign Baseline
 Formatting Bar Chart Area

18
Updating The Schedule

 Updating Process Rules

 Progress spot Light

 Updating activities

 Updating Resources

 Suspend & Resume Activity

 Rescheduling the Project

19
Reports

 Reporting Methods

 Reports Window

 Run an Existing Report

 Reports Wizard
 Reports Using Layouts

20
Project Web Site

 Web Site Features

 Create a Project Web Site

 Web Site Navigation

 Publish Activity Layout

Language & Certificate of Completion.

All classes will be held in English.. A certificate of completion will be issued upon a successful
completion of the program. This course will entitle delegates to 25 Professional Development Units
(PDUs).
For more information, please contact:
Project Management Institute -Arabian Gulf Chapter
P.O. Box 11343 Dhahran 31311
Tel. (03) 874-7020 / (03) 873-4751, Fax (03) 873-5020
Email: pmi-agc@aramco.com