Project Management with Primavera P6 (5 PDUs)

Define a project as a temporary, unique endeavor to deliver a product, service, or result per the PMBOK definition, with a start and end, learning boundaries from conception to handover.

Define project management as applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet project requirements and achieve goals within interrelated constraints of scope, cost, time, quality, resources, and risk.

Explore the five process groups of project management: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing, and how Primavera P6 supports all five groups.

Understand how a project schedule using Primavera P6 defines duration and sequence, links resources and cost, and supports planning, monitoring, and controlling to ensure timely completion and cash flow management.

Learn the critical path method for scheduling (CPM): compute early start/finish and late start/finish dates, floats, and the critical path to identify activities that cannot be delayed and fast-tracking.

Explore the Gantt chart as a core scheduling tool for planning and controlling projects, showing start and end dates, duration, sequence, floats, critical activities, and remaining work in Primavera P6.

Explore Oracle Primavera P6 PPM and Primavera systems, a web-based enterprise portfolio and project management solution for planning up to 10,000 activities with unlimited resources, cost tracking, and multi-user collaboration.

Learn to navigate the Primavera P6 interface, customize toolbars and windows, and set industry preferences, time units, date formats, and currencies to tailor project management workflows.

Explore how the organizational breakdown structure (OBS) in Primavera P6 organizes people for clear communication and project access control, and learn to create OBS elements and manage access.

Explore the enterprise project structure (EPA) in Primavera P6 and learn to create and organize projects by location and project nature, assign access, and manage levels and responsibilities.

Decompose major project deliverables into smaller components to support planning of time, resources, and costs, with the WBS as a backbone organized into levels and work packages.

Explore Primavera P6 access control across EPA, project, and WBM levels; learn to create users, assign logon IDs, security profiles, and assign roles to projects or elements.

Understand the project scope and execution first, then develop a schedule in Primavera P6 using information from project documents: scope, start date, work breakdown structure, activities, durations, resources, relationships.

Plan, monitor, and control a sample construction project in Islamabad using Primavera P6 by extracting activities from foundations to upper structure, including footings, columns, walls, and waterproofing.

Create a blank project in Primavera P6 using the wizard, assign it to the CMS solutions Islamabad construction group, and set the project id, name, and planned start date (optional must finish date).

Customize the project window in Primavera P6, show or hide tabs, manage project details and status, explore what-if scenarios, and use notebooks for project notes.

Learn how total float defines how long an activity can delay without delaying the project, and how must finish date versus plan finish date shapes float calculations.

Discover how calendars shape project scheduling by translating activity duration into start and finish dates, accounting for holidays and nonwork days in Primavera P6.

Learn to add and modify global and project calendars in Primavera P6, customize work weeks and holidays, and assign calendars to projects, activities, and resources.

Create and organize a WBS in Primavera P6 by building hierarchical levels of WBS elements, renaming and moving elements, and ensuring 100% scope with activities grouped by WBS.

Format and customize columns in Primavera P6, adding activity ID and name, adjusting width and alignment, and using the time scale to zoom the Gantt chart.

Explore three percentage complete types in Primavera P6, including duration, physical, and units, showing how each is calculated or entered to report activity progress.

Explore the six types of activities in Primavera P6, including milestones, resource dependent and level of effort activities, and learn how calendars, relationships, and WBM summaries drive scheduling and reporting.

Set defaults for new activities in Primavera P6 to auto fill common properties, such as calendar, duration type, and auto numbering of IDs.

Add and organize activities within WBM elements in Primavera P6, assign IDs and durations, and insert milestones. Distinguish foundation works and structure works for project scheduling.

Learn how to estimate activity durations using historical data and resource productivity, including Delfi technique and wideband, to generate optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates for Primavera P6.

Add duration estimates to activities by typing in the duration box next to each activity in the original duration column; milestones have zero duration and estimates come from historical data.

Understand how project activities connect through relationships, including finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish, with predecessors, successors, lag, lead, and constraints for monitoring and controlling schedules.

Learn to add relationships between activities, assign successors, and set relationship types to drive scheduling, then explore lag, lead, crashing, fast tracking, and must finish dates.

Learn how Primavera P6 computes project schedules using CPM by calculating early and late start/finish dates, total float, and critical activities from activity durations, relationships, and calendars.

Explore advanced bar formatting in Primavera P6, including bar styles, grouping bands, and collapse/expand controls; configure calendars, non-work time, labels, activity status, legends, and date lines.

Organize project activities using group and sort, save formatting with layouts, and toggle show group totals or summaries only to display concise project information across multiple projects.

Master filtering in Primavera P6 to display only in-progress activities or milestones, using custom filters and folders with date ranges and all/any conditions.

Explore how to print, preview, and set up schedules in Primavera P6, including header customization, margins, and time scales, and learn to export to and import from Primavera project files.

Explore Primavera P6 reporting to generate, customize, and share schedules, costs, and resources using the report wizard to select subject areas and columns.

Baselines in Primavera P6 provide a complete project copy for backup and monitoring. Use baselines to compare progress with the original plan and its updates.

Create a monthly lookahead schedule, collect actual data, and update activities against the baseline. Reschedule the project, adjust the data date, and print reports for distribution.

Monitor and control a project in Primavera P6 by selecting baselines, comparing progress to plan, and calculating variances to guide corrective actions.