Project Management using Oracle Primavera P6 Professional

This course provides you with great insight into Primavera to make you effective and easily get an expert-level understanding of managing projects through Primavera. It will also make one understand project management concepts much more easily as the tool is used. Most lectures are covered through PowerPoint to highlight concepts and features, post this has exhaustive hands-on demonstration using Primavera P6 professional

This course starts by providing a brief overview of project management, and various types of Primavera platforms such as Professional, Enterprise, and cloud versions. Covers in detail about managing projects through the Primavera Profession P6 version for Windows 10. Also provides on brief architecture overview of Primavera Products and where Primavera P6 professional fits in the Primavera family.

Apart from covering topics like the creation of a project, work breakdown structure, activities, cost, resource allocation, baselining, and progress updates. It also covers advanced features like:

• Critical path Method, Forward Pass, Backward Pass, positive and negative slacks
• Important concepts like Earned value analysis are covered as well.

Earned value analysis is important to know whether the project is on schedule, behind schedule, or ahead of schedule, Similarly whether the project is as per budget or over budget and within budget at any point of time during the execution of the project.

The course is logically sequenced in the following manners, similar to any project execution:

• Overview of various Primavera Platforms.
• Project Management Overview
• Install some of the critical setups.
• Planning - Covers setup like calendar, currency, Roles and resources, Date constraint, and then on transactions like project creation, WBS, Activities, Relationship, critical path method, Risks and issues, project baseline.
• Execution and control - Project progress update, Earned value analysis, Reports.
• Advanced topics
• Activities types - Milestones, Task dependent, Resource dependent, Level of effort.
• Resource leveling
• Import, Export
• Resource type - Apart from labor, define non-labor like machinery, raw material
• Case study - To plan and create a project, baseline, update progress analyze progress made. Additionally, you can also reference the solution provided
• Check your knowledge - Quiz.

If you are PMP certified then you can claim PDU for the course.

Happy learning!!!