Planning & Control with Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional

This course is aimed at teaching students how to use Primavera Project Manager P6 PPM Professional Client up to an intermediate level including:

• Filters layouts, printing
• Creating and assigning roles and resources,
• Setting up and administering a database plus advanced features including import/export, Activity Codes, Custom Data Fields and Global Change.
• Introduction to the user interface and how to plan projects without resources,
• Baselines and updating an un-resourced project,
• Controlling projects with resources and costs,

• Introduction 17:23

  • 1: 01.00 P6 Intro PowerPoint Video Presentation Whole Course 2021 Preview 04:20
  • 2: 01.00-01.02 Purpose, Required Background Knowledge 02:01
  • 3: 01.03-01.07 Purpose of Planning, Planning Metrics, Cycle, Level, Monitoring and 10:02
  • 4: Download 01:00

• Creating a Project Plan 30:48

  • 5: 02.00 Creating a Project Plan 00:53
  • 6: 02.01-02.03 Understanding the Software, Enterprise Project Management and Your P 05:30
  • 7: 02.04 Planning Without Resources 19:06
  • 8: 02.05-02.07 Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 05:19

• Starting Up and Navigation Introduction 1:10:06

  • 9: 03.00 Starting Up and Navigation Introduction 2020 00:49
  • 10: 03.01-03.05 Logging In, Projects Window, Opening Projects, Displaying Activities 15:49
  • 11: 03.06-03.09 Top and Bottom Panes, User Preferences and Starting Day of the Week 20:12
  • 12: 03.10-03.13 Admin Preferences, Options, Do Not Ask Me About This Again, Mouse Cl 06:32
  • 13: 03.14 Accessing Help 2020 03:40
  • 14: 03.15-03.18 Refresh Data – F5 Key, Commit Changes – F10 Key, Send Project & Clos 05:04
  • 15: 03.19 V22 Workshop 1 - Start Date 9 Dec 24 - Navigating around the Windows 18:00

• Introduction to Creating a New Project 26:55

  • 16: 04.00 Introduction to Creating a New Project 00:50
  • 17: 04.01-04.06 Creating, Copying, Importing, Setting Up a Project 19:07
  • 18: 04.07 Workshop 2 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Creating Your Own Project 06:58

• Defining Calendars 43:55

  • 19: 05.00 Defining Calendars - Introduction 2020 00:53
  • 20: 05.01-05.03 Database Default Calendar, Global & Project Calendars, Project Defau 07:07
  • 21: 05.04-05.05 Creating a New Global, Project Calendar and Resource Calendars 07:44
  • 22: 05.06 to 05.14 Move, Copy, Rename and Delete a Calendar and Editing Calendars 20 18:46
  • 23: 05.15 Workshop 3 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Maintaining the Calendars 2021 09:25

• Creating a Primavera Project WBS 22:48

  • 24: 06.00 Creating a Primavera Project WBS - Introduction 00:42
  • 25: 06.00-06.07 Opening and Navigating the WBS Window, Creating and Deleting a WBS N 19:49
  • 26: 06.08 Workshop 4 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Creating the WBS 02:17

• Adding Activities and Organizing Under the WBS 35:07

  • 27: 07.00 Adding Activities and Organizing Under the WBS - Introduction 02:22
  • 28: 07.01 New Activity Defaults 09:27
  • 29: 07.02-07.06 Adding New Activities, Copying and Renumbering 2020 05:45
  • 30: 07.07-07.12 V22 Elapsed Duration, Finding Bars, Assigning Calendars & WBS, Reord 11:14
  • 31: 07.13 Undo 01:07
  • 32: 07.14 Summarizing Activities Using WBS 01:00
  • 33: 07.15 Spell Check 00:58
  • 34: 07.16 Workshop 5 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Adding Activities 03:14

• Formatting the Display 56:43

  • 35: 08.00 Formatting the Display - Introduction 01:07
  • 36: 08.01-08.04 V22 Project Window, Understanding Forms, Formatting the Bars, Progre 27:02
  • 37: 08.05-08.11 Columns, Row Height, Timescale, Attachments, Fonts, Colors, Line Num 17:24
  • 38: 08.12 Workshop 6 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Formatting the Bar Chart 11:10

• Adding Relationships 35:14

  • 39: 09.00 V22 Adding Relationships - Introduction 00:48
  • 40: 09.01-09.04 Constraints, Understanding Relationships, Lags and Leads and Formatt 08:23
  • 41: 09.05 Adding and Removing Relationships 05:36
  • 42: 09.06-09.11 V22 Dissolving Rels, Circular Rels, Scheduling the Project, Reviewin 10:24
  • 43: 09.12-13 V22 Relationship Comments and Reduced MS Relationships 05:52
  • 44: 09.14 V22 Workshop 07 - Start Date 9 Dec 24 - Adding the Relationships 04:11

• Activity Network View 22:28

  • 45: 10.00 Activity Network View - Introduction 01:11
  • 46: 10.01-10.06 Viewing a Project Using the Activity Network View, and using the Net 10:46
  • 47: 10.07 Early Date, Late Date and Float Calculations 03:31
  • 48: 10.08 Workshop 8 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Activity Network View and Scheduling Ca 07:00

• Constraints 24:42

  • 49: 11.00 V22 Constraints - Introduction 03:10
  • 50: 11.01-04 V22 Assigning Constraints, External Dates, Project Must Finish By Date 11:21
  • 51: 11.05-06 V22 Check Schedule Report and Completed Schedule Check List 03:55
  • 52: 11.07 V22 - Workshop 9 Constraints 06:16

• Group, Sort and Layouts 21:18

  • 53: 12.00 Group, Sort and Layouts -Introduction 03:05
  • 54: 12.01-12.03 Group and Sort Activities and Understanding Layouts 13:17
  • 55: 12.04 Workshop 10 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Organizing Your Data 04:56

• Filters 25:07

  • 56: 13.00 Filters Introduction P6 V21 00:24
  • 57: 13.00 V22 Filters - Introduction 00:20
  • 58: 13.01-13.03 Understanding Filters, Applying a Filter, Creating and Modifying a F 11:20
  • 59: 13.04 V22 - Activity Critical Path Visibility 06:00
  • 60: 13.05 - Workshop 11 - Start Date 9 Dec 24 - Filters 07:03

• Printing, Reports and Visualizer 40:37

  • 61: 14.00 Printing, Reports and Visualizer - Introduction 2020 00:38
  • 62: 14.01 Printing 2020 13:01
  • 63: 14.02 Reports 2020 06:41
  • 64: 14.03 Publish to a Web Site 2020 03:22
  • 65: 14.04 Visuilizer 2020 08:09
  • 66: 14.05 Claim Digger – Schedule Comparison 2020 03:01
  • 67: 14.08 Workshop 12 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Printing 05:45

• Schedule Options and Setting a Baseline 54:31

  • 68: 15.00 Schedule Options and Setting a Baseline Introduction 2020 02:28
  • 69: 15.01 Understanding Date Fields 15:20
  • 70: 15.02 Scheduling Optioms 2020 15:04
  • 71: 15.03 Setting the Baseline 06:48
  • 72: 15.04 Limitation on Viewing Baseline Data 2002 03:55
  • 73: 15.05 Workshop 13 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - LOE, WBS and Setting the Baseline 10:56

• Updating an Unresourced Schedule 34:55

  • 74: 16.00 Updating an Unresourced Schedule 2020 00:53
  • 75: 16.01-16.02 Practical Methods of Recording Progress 10:01
  • 76: 16.03-11 Understanding the Concepts and Updating the Schedule 2020 19:15
  • 77: 16.12 Workshop 14 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Progressing and Baseline Compaison 04:46

• User and Administration Preferences Introduction 1:16:03

  • 78: 17.00 User and Administration Preferences Introduction 2020 00:33
  • 79: 17.01 User Preferences 2020 22:39
  • 80: 17.02 Admin Menu – Create Users 2020 19:31
  • 81: 17.03 Admin Preferences and Admin Categories 2020 20:52
  • 82: 17.04 Miscellaneous Defaults V20 2021 12:28

• Creating Roles and Resources 40:14

  • 83: 18.01 V22 Understanding Resources and Roles 04:13
  • 84: 18.01-02 V22 Understanding Roless and Resources and Creating Roles 10:48
  • 85: 18.03 Creating Roles, Creating Resources and the Resources Window 17:33
  • 86: 18.04 Workshop 15 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Adding Resources to the Database 07:40

• Assigning Roles, Resources and Expenses 53:27

  • 87: 19.00 Assigning Roles, Resources and Expenses - Introduction 00:56
  • 88: 19.01 Understanding resource Calculations and Terminology 03:53
  • 89: 19.02-19.03 Project Resource Preferences, User Preferences Applicable to Assigni 11:03
  • 90: 19.04 Activities Window Resource Preferences and Defaults 14:03
  • 91: 19.05-19.07 Assigning & Removing Roles, Resources, Resource Duration Calculation 08:44
  • 92: 19.08-09 V22 Expenses and Suggested Setup for a Resourced Schedule 08:11
  • 93: 19.10 Workshop 16 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Assigning Resources and Expenses to Ac 06:37

• Resource Optimization 1:09:03

  • 94: 20.00 Resource Optimization - Introduction 01:18
  • 95: 20.01-20.02 Reviewing Resource Loading, Resource Assignments Window 19:35
  • 96: 20.03-20.04 Copying and Pasting into Excel, Other Tools for Histograms and Table 08:31
  • 97: 20.05-20.10 Methods of Resolving Resource Peaks & Conflicts & Resource Leveling 17:04
  • 98: 20.11Resource Curves 04:06
  • 99: 20.12 Workshop 17 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Resource Optimization 18:29

• Updating a Resourced Schedule 1:00:13

  • 100: 21.00 Updating a Resourced Scheuldule - Introduction 04:18
  • 101: 21.01-21.03 Budget Values & Baseline Projects, Data Date, Required Information t 07:21
  • 102: 21.04 Project Window Defaults for Updating a Resourced Schedule 17:46
  • 103: 21.05-21.06 Percent Complete Types, Using Steps to Calculate Activity Percent Co 10:00
  • 104: 21.07-21.09 Updating the Schedule, Updating Resources, Updating Expenses 11:12
  • 105: 21.10 Workshop 18 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Updating a Resourced Schedule 09:36

• Other Methods of Organising Project Data 38:46

  • 106: 22.00 V22 Other Methods of Organising Project Data - Introduction 00:38
  • 107: 22.01 Understanding Project Breakdown Structures 02:58
  • 108: 22.02-22.07 Activity Codes, UDFs, WBS Category, Resource Codes and Cost Accounts 24:37
  • 109: 22.08-09 V22 Assignment Codes and Role Codes 04:44
  • 110: 22.09 Workshop 19 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Activity Codes and User Defined Field 05:49

• Global Change Introduction 23:12

  • 111: 23.00 Global Change Introduction 01:01
  • 112: 23.01-23.6 Introducing Global Change, the Basic Concepts & Specifying the Chang 09:33
  • 113: 23.07-23.10 Temporary Values, and More Advanced Examples of Global Change 05:18
  • 114: 23.11 Workshop 20 - 6 Dec 21 Start Date - Global Change 07:20

• Managing the Enterprise Environment 58:07

  • 115: 24.00 Managing the Enterprise Environment 02:39
  • 116: 24.01 Multiple User Data Display Issues 10:58
  • 117: 24.02-24.05 EPS, Project Portfolios, OBS, Users, Security Profiles 16:04
  • 118: 24.06-24.08 Project Codes, Filtering, Grouping & Sorting Projects in the Project 06:31
  • 119: 24.09-24.12 Summerizing Projects, Job Services and the Tracking Window 2020 21:55

• Multiple Project Scheduling 24:51

  • 120: 25.00 Multiple Project Scheduling - Introduction 01:18
  • 121: 25.01-25.03 Multiple Projects in P6 V20 2021 13:35
  • 122: 25.04-25.05 F5 & F10, Who Has the Project Open and Setting Baselines for Multipl 02:41
  • 123: 25.06-25.07 Setting Baselines for Multiple Projects and Restoring Baselines for 07:17

• Utilities 50:10

  • 124: 26.00 V22 Utilities Introduction 00:30
  • 125: 26.01-26.03 Reflection Projects, Advanced Scheduling Options and Audit Trail Col 05:50
  • 126: 26.04-05 V22 Excel and Project Import and Export 30:06
  • 127: 26.06-26.08 Check In and Check Out, UNCEFACT XML format and Online HTML Help 08:40
  • 128: 26.09-12 V22 Lean Tasks, Maintain Rels with Ext Proj Assignment Costs and Multi 05:04

• Earned Value Management with P6 24:40

  • 129: 27.00-27.02 Earned Value, PMB and Planned Dates 12:07
  • 130: 27.03-27.04 Earned Value and Actual Costs 05:56
  • 131: 27.05-07 ETC and EV Curves 06:37

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course aims to teach participants:

• Introduction to the user interface,

• How to plan projects without resources,

• Filters layouts, printing,

• Baselines and Updating an un-resourced project,

• Creating and assigning roles and resources,

• Controlling projects with resources and costs,

• Setting up and administering a database,

• Plus some advanced features including Import/Export, Activity Codes, Custom Data Fields and Global Change.

COURSE CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Creating a Project Plan

3. Starting Up and Navigation - Updated in 2023

4. Creating a New Project

5. Defining Calendars

6. Creating a Primavera Project WBS

7. Adding Activities and Organizing Under The WBS

8. Formatting the Display - Updated in 2023

9. Adding Relationships - Updated in 2023

10. Activity Network View

11. Constraints - Updated in 2023

12. Group, Sort and Layouts

13. Filters - Updated in 2023

14. Printing, Reports and Visualizer

15. Scheduling Options and Setting a Baseline

16. Updating an Unresourced Schedule

17. User and Administration Preferences - Updated in 2023

18. Creating Roles and Resources - Updated in 2023

19. Assigning Roles, Resources and Expenses - Updated in 2023

20. Resource Optimization

21. Updating a Resourced Schedule

22. Other Methods of Organizing Project Data, Activity Codes and User Defined Fields - Updated in 2023

23. Global Change

24. Managing the Enterprise Environment

25. Multiple Project Scheduling

26. Utilities, Reflection Projects, Audit Trail, Import and Export - Updated in 2023

27. Earned Value Management with P6

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 personnel who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.

Access to a recent copy of Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional which is the Windows and NOT the web software

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.

Reed Courses Certificate of Completion

Digital certificate - Included