Primavera P6 Construction Management Planning & Scheduling

Learn how to download the basics of Primavera P6 from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud by creating an account, verifying email, signing in, and selecting the project management version.

Install Primavera P6 version 16.2 by walking through file setup, base configuration, and a standalone database, using admin credentials to complete the initial launch.

Learn how to configure essential P6 settings for first-time setup, including setting the industry to engineering and construction, and adjusting time and unit preferences, date and time formats, and currency.

Explore the basic p6 interface, including the top and bottom layouts, the activity and chart views with a time scale, and the details panel with resources, relationships, and status.

Explore the organizational breakdown structure (obs) and how to build and visualize it in Primavera P6, converting enterprise data into a coherent project team chart with roles and responsibilities.

Explore how to structure projects in the enterprise project structure, create and organize P6 folders such as baseline, update, and EOD, and manage programs within a project hierarchy.

Define Primavera P6 calendars via four steps: general days, general hours, specific days, specific hours; configure six working days, eight hours, Ramadan and summer time, and assign to project activities.

Create a new project in Primavera P6, set start and finish dates, apply a calendar and baseline, then build the WBS with milestones like engineering, construction, and handing over.

Learn six activity types in Primavera P6—task dependent, resource dependent, start milestone, finish milestone, WB summary, and level of effort—along with related calendars, durations, and basic linking of activities.

Learn to define activity relationships in Primavera P6, including finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish, plus lead and lag effects for accurate scheduling.

Explore how externally imposed constraints affect start and finish dates in construction schedules, compare soft and hard constraints, and stress using constraints only when contractually documented.

Develops a practical workflow to build a work breakdown structure and activity list in Primavera P6, link activities, set relationships, and group and sort by start date and float.

Format columns and activity IDs in Primavera P6 by adjusting font and color, configuring numbering, and selecting early start, early finish, duration, and baseline calendars.

Adjust the time scale and bar chart settings in Primavera P6 to display primary dates, ordinal dates, and weekly or daily formats, and configure baselines, legends, and progress lines.

Learn to create and apply filters in Primavera P6 to isolate casting concrete activities, and build two weeks look ahead program using start, finish, and critical activity filters.

Explore creating and organizing activity codes and goods across divisions to plan cost and resource loading, applying filters and groupings for excavation, backfilling, waterproofing, and finishing work.

Explore detailed and overall resource loading in Primavera P6, distinguishing labor, non-labor, and material resources, and learn to link quantity, rate breakdown, and productivity to cost estimation.

Load boq costs into Primavera P6 by allocating a non-labor budget resource and applying floor-based percentages when breakdown is unavailable. Link activities and distribute costs across floors and work packages.

Learn to create an s-curve in primavera p6 by extracting monthly budget and cumulative costs, using either the program’s activity usage profile or an excel workflow.

Learn to create a manpower histogram in Primavera P6 using the resource usage profile and resource usage spreadsheet, filtering by current project labor resources and building per-resource and overall histograms.

Learn to run Primavera P6 program schedule, set baselines, choose save options, and read logs to verify critical path, relationships, and calendars. Understand retaining logic, progress override, and actual dates.

Export and import Primavera P6 projects and layouts, selecting the correct export version (16.2 or later), and apply the baseline layout to preserve configuration.

Learn to print the Primavera P6 schedule by configuring page setup for landscape, fitting the timescale to one page, and adjusting headers, footers, sections, and revision.