Primavera P6 Professional Masterclass: Project Planning.

Explore the Primavera P6 user interface with left-hand table and right-hand gain chart. Use time scale, toolbars, menus, and tabs to manage predecessors, successors, resources, and the project detail window.

Learn how to create an organizational breakdown structure (OBS) in Primavera P6, defining who has access to projects and arranging the hierarchy from a chief director to directors.

Learn how to create and organize an enterprise project structure (EPS) in Primavera P6, connect OBS to EPS, manage department hierarchies, and avoid unintended project deletions.

Before creating a project in Primavera P6, set the time unit, unit format, duration format, and date format. Adjust decimals and show minutes, then uncheck the wizards to avoid interruptions.

Create and customize calendars in Primavera P6 by copying a default calendar, adjusting the work week, holidays, and exceptions, and assign them via global, project, or resource polls.

Create a Primavera P6 project by setting the calendar and start date, build a WBS with brick and plaster work, and use finish-to-start relationships to schedule 54 days.

Learn how to identify milestones as zero-duration events with start and finish milestones, and master finish-to-start, start-to-finish, start-to-start, and finish-to-finish relationships, including lead and lag adjustments in Primavera P6.

Schedule your Primavera P6 project by validating calendars, the project data date, and WBS, then use F9 to run the schedule; distinguish total float from free float and their effects.

Create a Primavera P6 calendar with 2019 public holidays and a September 24, 2019 exception, set a 48-hour week, and define 7:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. workdays with a 1:00–2:00 p.m. lunch.

Create a Primavera P6 project from scratch by building artwork work breakdown structures for substructure, superstructure, and finishing work, defining activities such as excavation, backfilling, columns, beams, and slabs.

Set unit of measurement and abbreviations for material resources. Create a local currency with id, name, symbol, and true exchange rate against the dollar, then assign it to the project.

Learn how resource loading works in Primavera, covering maximum unit per time, budgeted unit per time, price per unit, budgeted cost, and creating and assigning labor, non-labor, and material resources.

Learn to create and assign material and labor resources in Primavera P6 Professional, including blocks, cement, sand, and crew roles, with dummy resources, calendars, budgets, and cost calculations per activity.

Learn to create and assign resources in Primavera P6 Professional, including cement, sand, aggregates, and labor roles, set budgets, units, rates, and local currency for plaster and PCC activities.

Explore resource usage profile and resource usage spreadsheet, along with activity usage profile and activity usage spreadsheet, to check relocation and overall location against daily maximum units.

Master resource leveling in Primavera P6 by removing overallocation through manual methods: delaying, splitting, stretching, and crunching, while understanding automatic leveling and its impact on project duration.

learn how to create and assign baselines in Primavera P6 to copy the project plan, compare it with actual progress, and manage primary, secondary, and tertiary baselines.

Update a Primavera P6 project by entering actual start, actual finish, and percent complete, then reschedule and save a new baseline, comparing plan with actual.

Create lookahead schedules in Primavera P6 by using filters to display upcoming activities within a one to three month window.

Learn to create and assign baselines in Primavera P6, update activities with actual starts and percent complete, set the data date, and compare plan versus actual.

Generate and customize Primavera P6 reports, including on-screen reports and actual and plan comparisons, by selecting columns, baselines, and statuses, then export to pdf, html, or batch-run multiple reports.

Master import and export in Primavera P6, exporting to SCR, Excel, XML, and MPX formats, and importing from Excel and MPX files.

Learn to create a three-month material procurement schedule in Primavera P6, planning concrete, steel, and other materials. The lecture covers creating resources, assigning them to activities, and generating reports.

Create material procurement in Primavera P6 by assigning cement, sand, and aggregates to activities, and set daily projected units and budgeted units.

Use global change to rename activities and reassign resources across a project, applying subject-area filters to update activity names or resource names and related expenses, then commit the changes.

Group activities under a single WBS with activity codes in Primavera P6, creating concrete and steel codes, assigning them, filtering, and grouping by activity types.

Explore duration types in Primavera P6 and see how fixed unit per time, fixed duration, and fixed units shape budgeted unit, unit per time, and budgeted cost.

Learn to compress a project schedule with fast tracking and crashing on critical activities, applying start-to-start with lag and resource-driven duration reductions.