Primavera P6 Professional Project Management

Learn to create and manage a work breakdown structure in Primavera P6, adding levels under the project baseline schedule, then arrange substructure, superstructure, and finishes using layout and chart views.

Explore activity types in Primavera P6, including task dependent, start milestone, and finish milestone, and learn how to copy, paste, and assign durations within a work breakdown structure.

Explore the three percent complete types in primavera p6—duration, physical, and units—showing how duration links remaining days to percent complete while physical remains independent.

Learn to create and customize calendars in Primavera P6, including default and resource calendars, project calendars, modifying work weeks, holidays, and hours per day, and efficiently assign calendars to activities.

Change the timescale in Primavera P6 by adjusting its lines, calendar type, and date intervals, then customize bars, colors, and the progress line to match client requirements.

Set default settings in Primavera P6 to automatically apply calendar 724 and physical percentage complete type to new activities, like mobilization or start milestones.

Learn to assign predecessor and successor relationships between activities in primavera p6, using link activities and four relationship types: finish-to-finish, finish-to-start, start-to-finish, and start-to-start, with optional lag and schedule (f9).

Learn how to dissolve and delete activities in Primavera P6, preserving relationships like start-to-start, finish-to-start, and finish-to-finish while maintaining linked predecessors and successors.

Learn to use Primavera P6 to view the activity network and gantt chart, and see how mobilization to brickwork and internal plaster follow start-to-finish, finish-to-start, and start-to-start links.

Explore total float and free float concepts, and learn how activity and project constraints in Primavera P6 fix dates using finish on, start on, and must finish by.

Copy activities and their work breakdown structure across floors using shift-click and paste, then reproduce activity relations and assign predecessors and successors in Primavera P6.

Learn to renumber activity IDs in Primavera P6 by using rename options to set prefix, suffix, and increments, applying changes to single or grouped activities across work breakdown structures.

Create and manage resources in Primavera P6 by opening the resources tab, adding resources with unique IDs, assigning type (labor, material, non labor), and configuring units of measure and calendars.

Master assigning resources to activities in Primavera P6 by selecting multiple activities, using the assign button, and filtering to current project resources to allocate steel, excavator, and other resources.

Explore resource assignments and labeling in Primavera P6, including using the resource assignment and spreadsheet views to allocate labor and materials, monitor hours, cost, and leveling options.

Explore the resource window in Primavera P6, configuring general settings, currencies (including creating custom currencies), units and prices, roles, and nodes for materials, with cost management notes.

Create and interpret a resource usage profile in Primavera P6, calculating budgeted units from hours per day and days, and identify limits and over allocations with color cues.

Create and assign activity codes in Primavera P6 to organize project activities by category, using the enterprise tab, modify, add, and project options.

Export a Primavera P6 project by choosing file > export, selecting the latest version and a format such as Primavera P6 or Excel, saving the whole project to the desktop.

Export the entire Primavera P6 project to an Excel spreadsheet by using file export and selecting activities, then tailor the template to include activity id, dates, resources, and status.

Explore how to configure admin and user preferences in Primavera P6, including time units, date formats, currencies, startup options, passwords, and reporting and industry settings.

Open the left column and use report or tracking to generate project reports and track whole projects, including eye hospital and hotel construction, across resources, project, portfolio, administration, and security.

Learn to print Primavera P6 projects, adjust page setup and orientation, set margins, headers, and footers, and tailor the timescale to fit multiple pages, including resource usage and activity tables.

Learn to update a Primavera P6 project file's version without installing a new version by editing the version number in notepad and importing to 16.2 or 20.