This course covers from P6 Version 8 to Version 19 and explains the differences between the versions.
What you'll learn
- This course is aimed at teaching students the advanced features of Primavera Project Manager P6 PPM Professional Client up to an intermediate level.
Requirements
- 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.
- Access to a computer with Oracle Primavera P6 loaded.
Description
This course aims to teach participants:
SCHEDULING OPTIONS AND SETTING A BASELINE
- Understanding Date Fields
- Scheduling Options – General Tab Setting the Baseline
- User Preferences Admin Menu
- Admin Preferences
- Miscellaneous Defaults
- Understanding Project Breakdown Structures
- Activity Codes
- User Defined Fields
- WBS Category or Project Phase Resource Codes
- Cost Accounts Owner
- Activity Attribute
- Introducing Global Change
- The Basic Concepts of Global Change
- Specifying the Change Statements
- Examples of Simple Global Changes
- Selecting the Activities for the Global Change
- Duration Calculations with Global Change
- (Any of the following) and (All of the following)
- Temporary Values Global Change Functions
- More Advanced Examples of Global Change
- Multiple User Data Display Issues
- Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
- Project Portfolios
- Organizational Breakdown Structure – OBS
- Users, Security Profiles and Organizational Breakdown Structure
- Project Codes Filtering, Grouping and Sorting Projects in the Projects Window
- Project Durations in the Projects Window
- Why Are Some Data Fields Gray and Cannot Be Edited?
- Summarizing Projects Job Services
- Tracking Window
- Multiple Projects in One Primavera Project
- Multiple P6 Primavera Projects Representing One Project
- Setting Up Primavera Projects as Sub-projects
- Refresh Data and Commit Changes
- Who Has the Project Open?
- Setting Baselines for Multiple Projects
- Restoring Baselines for Multiple Projects
- Reflection Projects
- Advanced Scheduling Options
- Audit Trail Columns
- Excel Import and Export Tool
- Project Import and Export
- Check In and Check Out
- UN/CEFACT XML format
- Online HTML Help
Who this course is for:
- 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 personal who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.
