PRIMAVERA P6 Training Course

Course Overview

Primavera is an enterprise project portfolio management software. It includes project management, product management, collaboration, and control capabilities, and integrates with other enterprise software such as Oracle and SAP’s ERP systems. Primavera was launched in 1983 by Primavera Systems Inc., which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2008.
Participants will create a project, add activities and relationships, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and over-allocated resources, and analyze portfolios. Participants will also learn how to customize the personal workspace and the project workspace to monitor project progress and communicate with team members. Oracle BI and BPM are not covered in this course. The course uses P6, a Primavera Web-based project management tool. It is divided into four sections: Overview and Creating a Project; Scheduling the Project and Managing Data; Assigning Resources and Base lining; and Project Execution and Control.
This course provides hands-on training for Oracle’s Primavera P6 Release 16 (Client/Server). Students will gain an understanding of the principles of planning and scheduling as well as hands-on experience building a P6 schedule from scratch, updating and monitoring the schedule, & generating reports. Participants may use P6 version 6-16 for exercises.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for persons who have on-the-job experience performing project management tasks, whether or not project manager is their formal job role, who are not certified project management professionals, and who might or might not have received formal project management training. The course is appropriate for these persons if they wish to develop professionally, increase their project management skills, apply a formalized and standards-based approach to project management, seek career advancement by moving into a formal Project Manager job role, as well as to apply for Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI®) Project Management Professional (PMP®)
Certification. “Project Management Professional” and “PMP” are registered trademarks of Project Management Institute, Inc.

Course Objectives

1- Create a Work Breakdown Structure
2- Add activities
3- Customize activity views
4- Create relationships
5- Schedule the project
6- Assign constraints
7- View the Enterprise Project Structure
8- Optimize the project schedule
9- Create a project
10- Assign roles and resources
11-Analyze resources and costs
12- Baseline of the project plan
13- Execute the project
14- Customize dashboards

Certification

Program participants who complete the course are issued a certificate of Completion from
Global Institute of Projects Management & Development – GIPMD