Course Outline

An Overview of an Earned Value Analysis

• Summary of Earned Value Analysis
• Manipulative Actual Cost, Planned Value and Earned Value
• Manipulative the complete performance percent

Handling Multiple Projects

• Opening multiple projects
• Setting default projects

Evaluation of Resources and Roles

• An Overview of roles and resources
• The View of Dictionaries
• Allocating roles to a process
• Assigning rates on roles
• Allocating Resources
• Adapting budgeted units/time
• Demonstrating the resource practice profile
• Overwhelming Resource Usage Profile and Spreadsheet

Manually Allocation of Resources

• An introduction to resource allocation
• Displaying the assignments window
• Detecting and editing allocation

Scheduling

• An Overview of Critical Path Method Scheduling and the Impact of Float
• Achievement of Forwarding and Backwards passes
• The out of Sequence activities
• Define Float

Allocating Constraints

• Reflecting a general deadline for a Project
• Spreading constraint to an activity

Bucket Planning

• An overview of bucket planning
• Removal of Future Buckets
• Use of Curves

Leveling Resources

• Introducing placing leveling options
• Understanding priority leveling

Advanced Scheduling

• Planning multiple float paths
• Familiarizing calendar effect on lag
• Planning Out-of- Sequence methods

Presenting Global Change

• Generating user-defined field
• Accomplishing a global change

An Introduction to Timescale Logic Diagrams

• Selecting a template
• Filtering data

Understanding User Preferences

• Introducing user preferences
• Optional user preference settings

Activity Codes

• An Overview of activity codes
• How to generate and handle Global, EPS and Project level activity codes
• Understanding User Defined Fields (UDFs)
• Introducing project codes and resource codes

Global Change

• Bringing global changes
• Generating named global change configurations
• Exporting and Importing global change configurations

Activity Steps

• An Overview of activity steps
• Setting up Primavera for activity steps
• Assigning steps to an activity
• Making an activity step template
• Pouring progress using steps

Customisation of Gantt Chart Bars

• An Overview of bars dialogue
• Adaptation of existing Bars
• Generating custom Bars based on filters
• An Overview of bar labels and other attributes of the Gantt Chart

Summary Notebooks, WPs and Docs

• An Overview of Notebooks, WP and docs
• Adding notebook topics to P6
• Entering stories into P6 schedule actions
• How to assign Work Products and Documents to P6 Projects?
• How to assist WPs and Docs to schedule activities?

Describing Issues and Risks

• Understanding issues
• Entering issues into Primavera project

An Overview of User Administration

• An introduction to User Administration
• Addition of users to the system
• Introducing security profiles
• An Introduction to Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
• Allocating user rights to Projects and WBS elements

An Overview of General Administration

• An introduction to administration
• Understanding admin preferences and admin categories