Project Management with Primavera

OVERVIEW

Oracle’s Primavera P6 project management is a leading tool that offers project management solutions recommended by most industries such as engineering and construction, oil and gas industries, high-tech manufacturing industries, logistics and supply chain industries, project-oriented industries, and so on. Primavera P6 solutions can assist you in making enhanced project management decisions by providing start-to-end, real-time visibility into all significant information. It provides an easy-to-use solution to project managers for managing projects of any size, getting used to various levels of difficulties that arise within a project, and smartly scales to meet the needs of your organization. Widely used in industries such as construction, engineering, energy, aerospace, transport, and security, as well as in many other industry sectors.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Create a project
• Add activities
• Schedule a project
• Assign resources
• Adjust project schedule
• Create report

TARGET PARTICIPANTS

• Project Manager
• Project Engineer
• Team Leader
• Project Planner & Controller
• Project Time Controller

COURSE CONTENTS

1. Introduction

• Introduction to Projects
• Introduction to Project Management
• Introduction to Primavera
• History of Planning
• Skills Required for Planning
• Project Phases & Life Cycle

2. Structuring the Project

• Setting up Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
• Setting up Organisational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
• User Administration
• User control and limited Access Provisions
• Setting User Preferences
• Creating a Project
• Setting up Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Defining Project Status
• Setting up Project Dates
• Setting up Project Codes
• Project Parameters

3. Codes, Notebooks & Calendars

• Project Codes
• Resource Codes
• Activity Codes
• Notebooks
• Global Calendar
• Resource Calendar
• Project Calendar

4. Project Time Management

• Defining & Creating Project Activities
• Activity Types
• Duration Types
• Percentage Completion Types
• Activity Resource units loading
• Applying activities relationships (Logical connection)
• Relationship Types
• Scheduling
• Applying Constraint
• Creating Activity Steps
• Feeding Activity information to the Execution Team
• Activity Summary

5. Project Resource Management

• Types of Resources
• Units of Measures
• Creating Resource
• Default and maximum units per time
• Resource Price revisions
• Resource Shift Creation
• Assigning resources to activities
• Creating Roles
• Assigning roles to resources
• Assigning roles to activities
• Resource Loading
• Resource Curves
• Bucket Loading

6. Project Cost Management

• Project Funding Sources
• Activity Costing
• Expenses
• Estimating Budgeted and Actual Cost for Activities
• Establishing budgets for Work Packages
• Estimating Project Budgets
• Preparing Project Cash Flow
• Cost Comparison Analysis
• Cost Monitoring & Revisions
• Project Budget revisions

7. Project Risk Management

• Identifying Project Risk
• Categorizing Risk
• Risk Status
• Analysing Pre-Risk Impact
• Setting a Risk control plan
• Post-Risk Impact Analysis
• Finding Risk Cost
• Cause and Effect Analysis

8. Project Monitoring & Control

• Setting up & Assigning Baselines
• Apply Actuals
• Progress Update
• Look Ahead Schedule
• Delay Impact Analysis
• Earned Value Analysis
• S-Curve Analysis
• Setting up Project Threshold
• Project Issue Register
• Working on Project Issues
• Levelling Project Resources
• Project Tracking

9. Reporting

• Template Reporting
• Manual Reporting
• Report Batches
• Procurement Report
• Project Progress Report
• Schedule Comparison Report
• Weekly Report
• Project Cost Report
• Project Closing Report
• Client Report

10. Other Features

• Project Portfolio Management
• Managing Multiple Projects
• Project Work Products & Documents
• Creating Layouts
• User Defined Fields
• Global Change
• Store Period Performances
• Recalculate Assignment Cost
• Import and export the project data
• Project Management Concepts