RoyalCrown

This course is designed to provide participants with comprehensive understanding of project management principles and hands?on experience with Primavera P6 software. Through this program, participants will master essential project management techniques, including planning, scheduling, resource management, risk analysis, and project performance reporting, all within the framework of international standards and best practices.

This course covers all the fundamentals of using Primavera P6 Professional Through a series of lectures, interactive sessions and hands-on exercises, participants will gain the knowledge and experience they need to use P6 Professional as an effective project management tool.

1-Introduction to Project management and primavera:

- Introduction to Primavera Project management module

- Why Primavera is Required

2- Opening and Navigating Primavera:

- Open primavera, open existing project and Multi project

- Differentiate between Global data and project data

- Navigate menu bar, tool bar, directory bar, command bar and Layout

- Explain and Create Enterprise project structure EPS

- Explain and Create Organization project structure OBS

- Assign OBS to EPS

2- Creating New Project:

- Create new project

3-Creating Calendars:

-Creating Calendar

- Determine working hours per day and time period

4- Creating Work breakdown structure (WBS):

-Define the Work break down Structure

- Reason for creating WBS

- WBS Creating Rules

- View and organize WBS data in Chart Box

5- Creating Activities:

- Describe activity (ID, Name, Type, Code)

- Add activities and Estimate duration (Activity List)

- Define activity types

- Copy and paste activities

- Add Steps to activities

- Change Calendar Assignment if needed

- Explain how to add notebook topic and description

- Explain how to attach document or drawing for activity

- View and discuss Activity details tabs

6- Creating Relationships between activities:

- Differentiate between the four relationship types

- Assign successor and predecessors (relationship)

- Assign Lag or lead

7--Scheduling:

- Explain Critical Path Method

- Differentiate between early and late dates for activities

- Understand lag, lead, free float and total float

- Identify loops

- Driving and non-Driving relationship

- Analysis Schedule Log report

- Activity Network Diagram

8- Assign Constrains:

- Assign Constrains to activities

9- Activity Code:

- Add Activity Code Dictionary

- Difference between global and project activity codes

- Assign codes on activities

- Use Multi selection for activities to assign code

10- Filter for activities:

- Apply default calendars

- Create filters

- Multiple filters for activities

- Multiple conditions inside filters

- Explain group and sort tool and its option

11- Formatting project data:

- Group and sort activities with different views

- Time scale format

- Bars format and bars options

13- Save Layouts:

- Open Layout

- Save Layout

- Exporting layouts

14- Project document Library:

- Explain work product and document

- Link description to project documents

15- Project Baseline and update schedule:

- Assign the baseline to the current schedule

- Add the required columns and bars option need for update

- Save update layout

- Apply actual start and finish for complete activities

- Explain the different types of updating progress

- How to remove progress form activities?

16- Reports for schedule:

- Explain Repot tools

- Make new report and modify existing reports

17- Printing Planning Package for schedule:

- Explain printing tool on primavera

- Print WBS description

- Print activity list and duration with relation ship

- Print schedule and Gantt char

18- Resources and Roles:

- Define Resource & Role and get your resource pool

- Determine Resource type labor, Non Labor, Material

- Explain Resource Details Tabs (price/unit, Man unit/time,)

- Assign Resource Code

19- Assign Resource Roles:

- Assign Resource to activities

- Explain performance rates and calculate resource unit

- How to change price /unit for resource after assignment?

- Explain re-calculate assignment cost

- Explain Duration Types and its effect

- Add Expenses to Activities

- Get activity total cost

20- Project cost accounts for controlling:

- Assign resource curve

- Define cost account for cost loading

- Assign cost account to resources

21- Project cash flow and S- Curve:

- Explain Activity Usage Spread Sheet (Project Cash Flow)

-Export data to excel to draw curves if needed

- Explain Activity Usage Profile (Project S-Curve)

- Explain the aim of the S-curve and its use

- Explain profile option and the criteria of selecting data

22- Project resource distribution plan:

- Explain Resource assignment

- Select the required columns and fields

- Understand how to summaries the data

- Explain grouping the resource by cost account

- Understand manual distribution for resources and consequences

- Save Layout

- Explain resource assignment spread sheet placed in activity

- Understand how to show all resources or current resources

23- Project resource leveling:

- Explain Resource usage profile

- Explain display options for curve

- Understand resource usage profile option

- Show max limit, remaining unit and over location units

- Use resource leveling tool for leveling and smoothing

- Level critical activities

24- Reports for cost:

- Explain Repot tools

- Make new report and modify existing reports

25- Printing Planning Package for cost:

- Print S-Curve and Cash Flow

- Print Resource distribution plan and Histograms

- Print Resource loading on activities

26- Project Baseline Update Project Resources and cost:

- Apply actual unit to resources

- Update actual prices for resources

- Understand the relation between actual, remaining units and cost

- Plot the budget actual on spread sheets and curves

27- Project controlling and analysis:

- Explain earned value (EV) analysis technique

- Get planed, earned and actual cost

- Calculate schedule variance (SV), cost variance (CV),

- Plot EV Curves

28- Optimizing data:

- Add user define fields

- Use global change on different pages

- Calculate the price for each activity

- Understand Importing and exporting from primavera options

- Export and import data using excel sheets

29- Risk and thresholds and issues:

- Apply risk analysis on primavera

- Define and study threshold limits

- Define and study issues for project

Engineers, managers and anyone want to do: planning, managing, and executing projects, programs, and portfolios in constructions, asset-intensive industries

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