This course provides hands-on training for Primavera’s Web-based solution. Participants will create a project, add activities and relationships, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and overallocated resources, and analyze portfolios.

Participants also will learn how to customize the Personal Workspace and the Project Workspace to monitor project progress and communicate with team members. Hands-on workshops help students create and track an entire project to completion.

Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
• Earns 19.5 PDUs and 1.95 CEUs

Learn to:

• Create a project  
• Assign and analyze resources  
• Analyze project performance  
• Create reports  
• Customize dashboards and the Project Workspace  
• Optimize the project schedule

Suggested Prerequisites:

• Knowledge of project management principles

• Describing the Organizational Breakdown Structure

Creating a Project

• Viewing Project Details

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

• Creating Multiple Levels

Adding Activities

• Describing Activity Types
• Viewing Activity Information
• Editing Activity Details
• Assigning Steps
• Assigning Codes

Using Activity Views

• Customizing a View
• Filtering Data
• Grouping and Sorting Data

Creating Relationships

• Viewing Relationship Types
• Creating Relationships in the Gantt Chart

Scheduling a Project

• Defining Key Terms
• Defining Total Float
• Describing Loops and Open Ends

Assigning Constraints

• Applying a Must Finish By Date
• Constraining an Activity

Optimizing the Project Schedule

• Analyzing Schedule Dates
• Shorten a Project Schedule

Viewing the Project Workspace

• Adding and Removing Portlets
• Customizing the Project Workspace

Assigning Roles and Resources

• Assigning a Role
• Requesting Resources
• Assigning Resources
• Checking Resource Availability

Analyzing Resources and Costs

• Analyzing Overallocation

Baselining the Project Plan

• Selecting a Baseline
• Adding a Baseline

Executing the Project Plan

• Defining the Data Date

Analyzing the Updated Project

• Comparing Dates
• Viewing Schedule Performance

Viewing Dashboards

• Customizing Dashboards
• Adding and Removing Dashboards

Managing Documents

• Uploading a Document
• Checking Out a Document
• Reviewing a Document

Suggested Next Courses:

Resource Management in Primavera P6 Rel 6.2 Course 107
Portfolio Management in Primavera P6 Rel 6.2 Course 109