Primavera P6 Advanced Training Course – Primavera P6 Advanced Classes
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Following on from our Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals class, this class takes students through the most commonly used and requested advanced topics. Focusing on the pragmatic use in the real world of Primavera P6 Professional, this advanced level training course will extend your knowledge of its capabilities and how these are applied when using the tool
Training Type: Classroom Training
Course Level: Advanced Level
Prerequisites: Prior working knowledge of Primavera P6 Professional or attendance of our Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals 2-day class.
Number of Students: Our class sizes are typically 4-6 students per session. Our classes are intentionally kept small in order to foster more interaction between the instructor and students. We limit classes to a maximum of six (6) students unless we are teaching a private group or organization. Each student is provided with a laptop with Primavera P6 (Windows) already installed. ( Primavera P6 Rel. 18.8 or later)
Locations: Toronto (18 King Street East, Suite 1400), Also we offer the course in Mississauga Scarborough, Ottawa & Montreal.
Duration: Weekend : Sat ( 10 AM- 4:30 PM) . Or Weekdays 1 Day ( 10 AM- 4:30 PM)
Course Materials: It is recommended that each attendee buy the book Planning & Control Using Primavera P6 Versions 8 to 18 PPM Professional
Special Offers: Sign up with a friend and save 5% each – Sign up with 2 friends and save 10%
Bring your laptop: Save $50 ( You own a standalone copy of Primavera P6 Professional for use with this course)
Corporate Training: Contact us for special offers ( Training at our location or on site at your location, anytime , anywhere)
Target group
Project leaders, resource leaders/organizers and advanced Primavera P6 users.
Primavera P6 Advanced Course – Topics:
Lesson 1 – Resource Optimization
- Reviewing Resource Loading
- Resource Assignments Window
- Copying and Pasting into Excel
- Other Tools for Histograms and Tables
- Methods of Resolving Resource Peaks and Conflicts
- Resource Leveling
- Leveling Examples ( Leveling with & without Positive Float)
- Resource Shifts
- Guidelines for Leveling
- What to look for if Resources are Not Leveling
- Resource Curves
- Workshop – Resources Optimization
Lesson 2 – Updating a Resourced Schedule
- Understanding Budget Values and Baseline Projects
- Understanding the Current Data Date
- Information Required to Update a Resourced Schedule
- Project Window Defaults for Updating a Resourced Schedule
- Activities Window – Percent Complete Types
- Using Steps to Calculate Activity Percent Complete
- Updating the Schedule
- Updating Resources
- Updating Expenses
- Workshop – Updating a Resourced Schedule
Lesson 3 – Other Methods of Organizing Project Data
- Understanding Project Breakdown Structures
- Activity Codes
- User Defined Fields
- WBS Category or Project Phase
- Resource Codes
- Cost Accounts
- Owner Activity Attribute
- Workshop – Activity Codes and User Defined Fields (UDF)
Lesson 4 – Global Change
- Introducing Global Change
- The Basic Concepts of Global Change
- Specifying the Change Statements
- Examples of Simple Global Changes
- Selecting the Activities for the Global Change
- Duration Calculations with Global Change
- (Any of the following) and (All of the following) Temporary Values
- Global Change Functions
- More Advanced Examples of Global Change
- Workshop – Global Change
Lesson 5 – Managing the Enterprise Environment
- Multiple User Data Display Issues
- Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
- Project Portfolios
- Organizational Breakdown Structure – OBS
- Users, Security Profiles and Organizational Breakdown Structure
- Project Codes
- Filtering, Grouping and Sorting Projects in the Projects Window
- Project Durations in the Projects Window
- Why Are Some Data Fields Gray and Cannot Be Edited?
- Summarizing Projects
- Job Services
- Tracking Window
Lesson 6 – Multiple Project Scheduling
- Multiple Projects in One Primavera Project
- Multiple P6 Primavera Projects Representing One Project
- Setting Up Primavera Projects as Sub-projects
- Refresh Data and Commit Changes
- Who Has the Project Open?
- Setting Baselines for Multiple Projects
- Restoring Baselines for Multiple Projects
Lesson 7 – Utilities
- Reflection Projects
- Advanced Scheduling Options ( Calculating & Displaying Multiple Paths)
- Audit Trail Columns
- Excel Import and Export Tool
- Project Import and Export
- Check In and Check Out
- UN/CEFACT XML format
- Online HTML Help
- Activity Discussion Feature
Lesson 8 – Earned Value
- Performance Measurement Baseline
- Planned Value
- Earned Value
- Actual Costs
- Estimate to Complete
- Activity Usage S-Curves
- Sample Graphical S-Curves
About Primavera P6 Professional :
Primavera P6 is known for being quite effective as a project management scheduling tool.
Primavera P6 Professional Project Management, the recognized standard for high-performance project management software, is designed to handle large-scale, highly sophisticated and multifaceted projects. It can be used to organize projects up to 100,000 activities, and it provides unlimited resources and an unlimited number of target plans. Massive data requires sophisticated yet highly flexible organization tools to provide you a multitude of ways to organize, filter and sort activities, projects, and resources.
In addition, Primavera P6 can be integrated with most financial and HR software. It features best-in-class integration for bringing together schedule, cost, and other vital project data to form a “single version of the truth” for greater speed, accuracy, and efficiency in reporting.
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