What you'll learn

This course is aimed at teaching students the advanced features of Primavera Project Manager P6 PPM Professional Client up to an intermediate level.

Requirements

The ability to use a personal computer and understand the fundamentals of the operating system.

Experience using application software such as Microsoft Office.

An understanding of how projects are planned, scheduled and controlled, including understanding the project management processes applicable to your projects.

Access to a computer with Oracle Primavera P6 loaded.

Description

This course aims to teach participants:

SCHEDULING OPTIONS AND SETTING A BASELINE

Understanding Date Fields

Scheduling Options – General Tab Setting the Baseline

USER AND ADMINISTRATION PREFERENCES AND SCHEDULING OPTIONS

User Preferences Admin Menu

Admin Preferences

Miscellaneous Defaults

OTHER METHODS OF ORGANIZING PROJECT DATA

Understanding Project Breakdown Structures

Activity Codes

User Defined Fields

WBS Category or Project Phase Resource Codes

Cost Accounts Owner

Activity Attribute

GLOBAL CHANGE

Introducing Global Change

The Basic Concepts of Global Change

Specifying the Change Statements

Examples of Simple Global Changes

Selecting the Activities for the Global Change

Duration Calculations with Global Change

(Any of the following) and (All of the following)

Temporary Values Global Change Functions

More Advanced Examples of Global Change

MANAGING THE ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT

Multiple User Data Display Issues

Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

Project Portfolios

Organizational Breakdown Structure – OBS

Users, Security Profiles and Organizational Breakdown Structure

Project Codes Filtering, Grouping and Sorting Projects in the Projects Window

Project Durations in the Projects Window

Why Are Some Data Fields Gray and Cannot Be Edited?

Summarizing Projects Job Services

Tracking Window

MULTIPLE PROJECT SCHEDULING

Multiple Projects in One Primavera Project

Multiple P6 Primavera Projects Representing One Project

Setting Up Primavera Projects as Sub-projects

Refresh Data and Commit Changes

Who Has the Project Open?

Setting Baselines for Multiple Projects

Restoring Baselines for Multiple Projects

UTILITIES

Reflection Projects

Advanced Scheduling Options

Audit Trail Columns

Excel Import and Export Tool

Project Import and Export

Check In and Check Out

UN/CEFACT XML format

Online HTML Help

Who this course is for:

Programme Managers and Project Control staff evaluating the software against your organisational requirements.

Project schedulers who wish to learn how to use the software to schedule and control projects.

Database managers who wish to understand how to set up and administer a database.

Experienced project personal who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.