Course title: PPM101 Project management and Planning Using Oracle P6 Primavera Professional Project Management software course
Knowledge Skill Competence level : Fundamental and intermediate
Who can benefits from this course
Course is designed for Project managers, project planners, planning engineers, project planning managers, PMO practitioners, project engineers, construction managers, project control consultants, P6 primavera system administrator and people looking for project planning and project management job opportunities and career change or career progression CPD.
Method of delivery
Instructor led classroom training with hands on practical sessions
About the course and Learning Objectives
You will learn how to successful plan manage complex projects using Primavera P6 Professional Project Management software, the industry recognized standard for high-performance project management software. Also learn how to successfully plan the delivery of complex projects in Prince2 and Agile Scrum project management environments.
The practical hands on extensive training that will get your foot in the door as a project planner, planning engineer or project manager.
At end the extensive 4 weeks intensive training course participants will have good knowledge project planning and project control with adequate practical experience, live project exposure and confidence to pursuit a career as a project planner or planning engineer using primavera p6 and Microsoft project as planning tools.
Training software
Oracle primavera p6 project management professional PPM, Microsoft project MSP and Excel.
Training and reference materials
Project management methodologies and frameworks including Prince2, APM, Agile Scrum and ITIL V3 . APM body of knowledge and APM planning and scheduling best practice guide. NEC-3 Engineering and construction framework contracts
Trainer
Experienced trainer and certified professional with over 10 years of industry and commercial experience planning and managing the delivery of complex projects and programmes for large organisations including utilities, energy/power distribution, engineering, procurement construction, IT infrastructure, software development, housing, new build and facilities managements.
Course duration
24hrs spread over of 6 weekends, consists of 16hrs of instructor led training and 8 hrs of supervised classroom practical exercises , coursework and assignments and career advice (on-going suport).
Prerequisite skills & knowledge for the course
• Participants should be willing to learn new skills and enthusiastic.
• Problems solving and analytical skills.
• Able to think out of the box.
• Own or access to laptop.
Who should attend
The course designed for project managers, project planners, planning engineers, project control consultants , project engineers, PMO Support Analyst, construction managers , implementation managers and individuals looking for a career change or career progression .
Course Objectives
- Creating a project
- Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
- Add activities
- View calendars
- Creating relationships
- Schedule the project
- Assigning constraints
- Format schedule data
- Define roles and resources
- Assigning roles
- Assigning resources
- Analysing resources
- Optimize the project plan
- Execute the project
- Creating reports
- Understand data structures
Course Outline PPM101 Project management and project planning using Oracle P6 Primavera Professional Project Management
Understanding P6 Data
- Describing Enterprise and Project-Specific data
- Logging In
- Opening an Existing Project
- Opening and Customizing Layouts
- Creating Layouts
- Familiarisation with P6 user interfaces and data structures
Enterprise Project Structure
- Navigation through P6 Levels – Projects, Activities ,WBSs
- Describing Components of EPS and OBS
Creating a Project
- Creating a project
- Navigating in the Projects Window
- Viewing Project Details
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
- Defining a Work Breakdown Structure
- Creating the WBS Hierarchy
Adding Activities
- Describing an Activity and its Components
- Describing Activity Types
- Adding Activities
- Adding a Notebook Topic
- Adding Steps to an Activity
- Assigning Activity Codes
Creating Relationships
- Viewing a Network Logic Diagram
- Relationship Types
- Creating Relationships
Scheduling
- Critical path methodology and critical path CPA/CPM
- Performing a Forward and Backward Pass
- Describing Float
- Characteristics of a good schedule
- Optimising the Project Plan
- Analysing Schedule Dates
- Shortening a Project Schedule
Advanced Scheduling
- Multiple Float Paths
- Calendar Effect on Lag
- Scheduling Out-of-Sequence Activities
Assigning Constraints
- Applying an overall deadline to a project
- Apply constraint to activity
Using Reflection Projects
- Creating a Reflection Project
- Merging Changes
Formatting Schedule Data
- Grouping Activities
- Sorting
- Filtering
Resource management and cost management
- Roles and Resources
- Describing Roles and Resources
- Viewing Dictionaries
- Assigning Roles
- Assigning Roles to an Activity
- Assigning Rates on Roles
- Assigning Resources
- Adjusting Budgeted Units/Time
- Analysing Resources
- Displaying the Resource Usage Profile
- Analysing Resource Availability
- Analysing Resources and Roles
- Using the Resource Usage Profile
- Using the Resource Usage Spreadsheet
- Manually Allocating Resources
- Viewing the Assignments Window
- Viewing and Editing Resource Allocation
- Using Bucket Planning
- Editing Future Buckets
- Levelling Resources ; Resources levelling and smoothing
- Setting Levelling Options
- Resource Curves
- Levelling Based on Priority
Managing Multiple Projects
- Opening Multiple Projects
- Setting the Default Project
- Creating project codes
- Creating user defined fields UDFs
Project baseline and project schedule progress update
- Baseline the Project Plan
- Creating a Baseline Plan
- Display Baseline Bars on the Gantt Chart
- Project Execution and Control
- Describing Methods for Updating the Schedule
- Using Progress Spotlight
- Statusing / Progressing Activities
- Rescheduling the Project
Reporting and Analytics
- Defining Performance measurement
- Reporting Performance – Project status – RAGs and KPIs
- Creating a report with the Report Wizard and Layouts
- Describing Reporting Methods
- Running a Schedule Report
- S- curves and histograms
- Resource usage profile
- Activity usage profile
- Milestones tracker
- Lookahead report
- Variance analysis report
- Customizing the Gantt Chart
- Creating activities codes
- Creating user defined fields UDFs
Earned Value management EVM
- Implementing earned value management systems EVMS
- Earned value analysis EVA
- Using correct settings for Earned value calculations
- Earned Value Metrics CPI, SPI, TCPI, PV, EV, BAC, EAC
- Calculating Planned Value Cost
- Calculating Actual Cost
- Calculating Earned Value Cost
- Measuring Performance Percent Complete
Using Primavera Visualizer
- Creating Timescale Logic Diagrams
- Choosing a Template