Oracle Primavera P6: Your First Lesson!

Create a new project, build the work breakdown structure, set up the calendar, add activities and relationships, then create resources, assign them, manage expenses, and establish a baseline.

Explore the project schedule building process using Oracle Primavera P6 (and Microsoft Project) by creating enterprise project structure, a new project, the WBS, activities, defining relationships, and assigning resources.

Create an enterprise project structure (EPS) to organize projects like folders, then add an EPS named Primavera education and create a project under it; IDs and names can be customized.

Create a new Primavera P6 project with the project wizard, assign PR 001 as the name Learning Primavera Foundations, set planned start and finish dates, then set up the calendar.

Create and assign a project calendar to define work hours, holidays, and nonworkdays, using the five days worksheet template, then apply PR 0015 days per week.

Create a three-stage work breakdown structure with stage one training planning, stage two training commencement, and stage three training implementation, then add activities under each in the Gantt chart.

Switch to the activities window, add and rename project activities under each element; define training objectives, need analysis, and participants, and plan commencement and implementation tasks.

Define milestone activities in your project by setting start and finish milestones with zero duration and reflecting changes in the Gantt chart.

Learn how to build activity relationships in Oracle Primavera P6 by assigning predecessors and establishing the four relationship types—finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish—for a coherent project schedule.

Create labor, non labor, and material resources in Primavera P6 Professional, define resource IDs and names, set eight hours per day, and assign resources to activities.

Assign labor, non-labor, and material resources to project activities in Primavera P6 by using the resources tab to add John to training need analysis and David to conduct training.

Learn to assign and manage project expenses as non-resource costs to activities in Oracle Primavera P6, including budgeting, actual costs, and categories like travel, materials, and training.

Create and assign baselines in Primavera P6 to compare the current schedule with the original project plan, track cost, schedule, and performance, and visualize baselines on the gantt chart.

Update the project schedule regularly to reflect actual durations and changing sequences, and use the status tab to update start and end dates, duration, percent complete, and baseline comparison.

Monitor project activities in Oracle Primavera P6 using filters to display constraints and milestones, and create custom filters along with default views like completed, critical, in progress, and not started.

Set a project constraint in primavera p6 using the dates tab with the must finish by option, then refresh data and reschedule with f9 to update the database.

Select the project and open the activities window to apply an activity constraint, choosing start on or before for A1010 and noting the asterisk indicates the constraint is active.

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