Primavera P6 Project Planning and Scheduling Masterclass

Understand the differences between projects and operations, including temporary timelines and unique deliverables, and learn how Primavera P6 supports schedule management, resources, and project monitoring and control.

Define project management as the science of getting things done by applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and close projects, delivering value within start-end dates.

Explore programs as groups of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits beyond individual management. Centralized program management achieves economies of scale and benefits the whole organization.

Explore the project portfolio concept, a coordinated mix of projects, programs, and operations designed to achieve strategic objectives through portfolio management, sitting at the top of the organizational hierarchy.

Learn the essentials of schedule management in Primavera P6, from defining milestones, activities, and deliverables to sequencing, estimating durations, and developing a controllable project schedule.

Discover how Oracle Primavera P6 enables enterprise project portfolio management, supporting hundreds of users across millions of activities, and centralizing project status, ROI analysis, and strategic decisions.

Leverage Primavera P6 to monitor and control project details, understand resource demands across lifecycle stages, and set priorities to optimize staffing within the enterprise project portfolio system for ROI.

Understand the basic architecture of Oracle Primavera P6 as a multi-tier system with a database backend, application server, and web access; distinguish enterprise data from project data WBS and activities.

Explore the project management lifecycle with five PMI phases—initiation, planning, executing, monitoring and control, and closing—using Primavera P6 to manage schedule, cost, resources, and enterprise data across projects.

Master Primavera P6 core concepts by examining OBS and EPS, the work breakdown structure, project activities, and resources, and understand how portfolio sits above programs and related projects.

Explain how the organizational breakdown structure (OBS) creates a hierarchy of divisions, departments, teams with responsible managers, linking people to work through WBS elements and deliverables.

Explore enterprise project structure (EPs), a hierarchical top-level framework that organizes portfolios, programs, subprograms, and projects into nodes for rapid access and role-based review.

Explore how a work breakdown structure hierarchically breaks a project into work packages and deliverables, linking portfolios, programs, and projects to achieve objectives.

Understand how deliverables break into WBS elements and activities, how resources are assigned to complete work, and how OBS and EPs organize projects under PMI guidelines.

Build a project schedule in Primavera P6 by establishing the enterprise project structure, defining the WBS and activities, setting relationships, assigning resources, and monitoring baselines and calendars.

Explore the Primavera P6 interface, focusing on the projects and activities views, toolbar items, and practical ways to open and manage projects.

Use the activities window to create, view, and edit project activities, with the top layout showing the activity table and Gantt chart, and the bottom layout the activity details form.

Explore the Gantt chart view to understand the enterprise structure, WBS elements, and color-coded activity status—blue completed, red critical, green non-critical, with the progress line indicating progress.

Explore how to use and customize Primavera P6 toolbars, including left, top, and right, with standard, enterprise, and print, for quick access and hiding or displaying via right-click.

Navigate the Oracle Primavera standard toolbar to create new projects via a wizard, open projects from energy services, and close all projects with control plus N and control plus O.

Use the enterprise toolbar to manage ABC Nursing Home Project through projects, resources, reports, and tracking in Primavera P6, switching between the active windows.

Navigate the project toolbar to view and switch between WBS and Gantt chart, adjust views with zoom controls, and manage resources, documents, expenses, and risks.

Explore the edit toolbar in Primavera, including add, delete, cut, copy, and paste actions within the risk window, plus how to confirm deletions and use paste from copy.

Navigate the assigned toolbar in Primavera P6 to manage resources, roles, activity codes, and predecessors and successors, and learn to close windows with the red cross.

Use the top layout toolbar to toggle the table and Gantt chart views and reveal the WBS or activities. Display or hide the activity network, relationship lines, and chart view.

Use the Primavera P6 bottom layout toolbar in the activities view to display details, view the activity usage and resource usage spreadsheets, and analyze activity relationships with trace logic.

Learn to customize the Primavera P6 layout toolbar to tailor the Gantt chart view by adjusting bars, columns, time scale, filters, and grouping, sorting, and line numbers.

Master the Primavera P6 tools toolbar, using visualizer for customizable Gantt charts, update schedules with F9, level resources with Shift+F9, and monitor progress with progress spotlight and progress line.

Adjust the Primavera P6 display with zoom controls and horizontal or vertical tab groups. Merge tab groups, access help, and preview topics like organizational breakdown structure and enterprise project structure.

Create and organize the organizational breakdown structure and the enterprise project structure in Primavera P6, adding ARBA Inc., its divisions, and assigning responsible managers to EPS nodes.

Create a new Primavera P6 project, set up the enterprise project structure, and build a four-phase work breakdown structure with WB and WBC elements.

Learn to create and organize project activities in Primavera P6 by adding tasks under work packages, renaming phases, and managing milestones and durations across design, foundation, and structure.

Sequence activities and define four relationship types in Oracle Primavera P6, calculate the critical path, total and free float, and visualize schedules with Gantt charts.

Learn to create and manage activity codes and goals in Primavera P6, and use grouping, sorting, and filtering to organize project activities by subcontractors across EPS and global levels.