Primavera P6 - Project Management

This course explains about managing complex projects using Oracle Primavera P6.

This course has 7 chapters and 60+ video lectures  total of more than 6 hours length.

You shall be taken to explore on creating and tracking a real time project with Primavera P6 from the beginning of creating the Enterprise structure, then breaking down the project into WBS & activities and towards the end of the course you shall understand about how to create several project management dashboards with Primavera P6.

This course covers the below contents :

• Introduction to Project management & Primavera, Project life cycle

• Creation and assigning currency

• Activity Schedule management

  • EPS creation

  • OBS Creation

  • Assigning OBS to EPS

  • Project creation

  • Project codes creation

  • Notebooks

  • Levels of Scheduling

  • Calendar Creation

  • Assigning calendars to project

  • Creation of WBS

  • Creation of Activities

  • Assigning activities to WBS

  • Activity types

  • Duration types

  • Activity relationship

  • Activity step templates creation

  • Total float and free float

  • Types of baselines

  • Creating and assigning baselines

  • Actual update

  • Comparing the schedule with Baseline

  • Delay analysis

• Resource management

  • Types of resources

  • Creating resources

  • Creating Resource codes

  • Roles creation

  • Resource shifts

  • Assigning resources to activities

  • Resource assignment view

  • Resources usage distribution

  • Resource curves

• Budgets

  • Budget log creation on EPS & Projects

  • Funding sources

  • Cost account creation & assigning to project

  • Spending plan

  • Distribution of spending plan to WBS

  • Spending plan tally

• Risk and Issue management

  • Risk management

  • Issue management

  • Thresholds

• Earned Value management

  • Earned value management

  • Creation of Layouts in P6

  • S curve analysis

• Other features

  • Accounting petty expenses

  • Work Products & Documents

  • Formatting Gantt charts, Activity window, resource assignment

  • Global change

  • Applications of Filters

  • Project Portfolios

  • User Defined Fields

  • Importance of codes

  • Group and sort options

  • Import and Export options

• Reporting dashboards

  • Budget Vs Actual manhours analysis

  • Milestone Dashboard reports

  • Dashboard reports on Workload analysis

  • Excel Pivot table applications

  • Converting P6 data to Excel charts

  • Usage of Excel slicers, grouping, Conditional formatting

  • Project Planning dashboard