Primavera P6 Professional Training

Define project and project management as a temporary endeavor to create a product or service, applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet requirements and plan for time and budget.

Identify activities as the lowest project level with a duration that moves work to the next stage, and note original duration, remaining duration, and predecessors and successors.

This Primavera P6 professional training lecture covers four activity relationships—start-to-start, finish-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish—and how each links a predecessor to a successor to govern timing.

Explore lead and lag in project management. Learn how a lead advances a successor before a predecessor finishes, and how a lag delays a successor in start-to-start and finish-to-start relationships.

Primavera P6 is an integrated project portfolio management tool for planning, managing, and executing projects, programs, and portfolios, with schedules built from activities, durations, relationships, and resources.

Explore enterprise project structure in Primavera P6, organizing projects under a company enterprise with divisions, such as mechanical, electrical, and civil, and manage departments like water and geotechnical.

Create and modify an organizational breakdown structure in Primavera P6 to define a hierarchy of project managers, deputy project managers, engineers, and planners, with obs created anytime as projects progress.

Learn how to create and configure project codes in the project codes dictionary inside enterprise settings, so organizations can categorize projects by location or division and quickly locate any project.

Explore how calendars define work days, holidays, and resource vacations, assignable to activities for scheduling and tracking, and learn the three types: global, calendar pool, and resource calendar pool.

Learn to create and assign a global calendar, modify work weeks, set working and nonworking days, add holidays, and apply calendars to projects and resources.

Learn to create a new project in Primavera P6, set its name, select the under category, specify the planned start date, assign a project manager, and open the project.

Open the project and access the WBS window to automatically create the work breakdown structure pieces, then name levels like preliminary submissions, execution, foundation, substructure, and testing, and create activities.

learn how to add activities in primavera p6, attach them to a work breakdown structure, set durations, define activity types, assign calendars, and track progress and dependencies.

Assign and manage activity relationships in Primavera P6, including start-to-start, start-to-finish, finish-to-start, and finish-to-finish, with leads, lags, and predecessor–successor methods.

Explore how to break activities into smaller units with activity steps, track completion, and reuse step templates for repeated projects using the steps tab and customize options.

Learn how to create and assign activity codes in Primavera P6, including global, EPS, and enterprise levels, and use group, sort, and display options to filter and lay out activities.

Learn to schedule a project in Primavera P6 by using forward and backward passes to compute early/late starts and finishes, total and free floats, and adjust the time scale.

Learn to renumber activity IDs in Primavera P6 by selecting activities, applying a prefix and suffix, and setting an increment value to systematically update IDs.

Learn to apply primary and secondary constraints in Primavera P6 to control start on or after dates, finish on or before dates, and the mandatory and late constraints.

Learn to suspend and resume an activity in Primavera P6 by marking the suspension at the specified date and resuming after issues are resolved, affecting the schedule and durations.

Learn to use filters in Primavera P6 to display specific activities in the demographics context by applying global, layout, and user defined filters with criteria such as contains and equals.

Use the group and sort by function and grouping function to organize activities, apply sorting options, hide empty levels, and generate targeted reports for managers or clients.

Use global change in Primavera P6 to edit calendars, costs, and other values across all or selected activities, and create user defined fields to customize reports.

Explore currencies and user preferences in Primavera P6 Professional, set base currency and exchange rates, store costs in multiple currencies, and display costs with chosen currency symbols.

Learn to add resources in Primavera P6: define labor, equipment, material, and money resources; create a resource pool; assign resources to projects and activities; set calendars and rates.

Learn how to assign specific sets of resources to activities in Primavera P6, including adding resources and roles, applying multiple resources to an activity, and reassigning resources as needed.

Create rule-based roles for resources and assign them to team members. Define responsibilities and set proficiency levels to designate primary and secondary roles for project managers and others.

Explore resource analysis in Primavera P6, learn to allocate, level, and smooth resources, view resource usage profiles, s curves, and histograms, and apply budgeted units with import/export workflows.

Master resource leveling in Primavera P6 by balancing demand with supply using automatic or manual methods, preserving early and late dates, and applying priorities across projects.

Discover how to use resource codes to categorize resources, create classifications with values like management and engineering, and assign codes to enable filtering and grouping by contractor or department.