PRIMAVERA P6 TRAINING IN PAKISTAN 

1. Project Management Life Cycle
Review the relationship between Primavera and Project Management Life Cycle
Understand the five process groups in the Project Management Life Cycle

2. Data, Navigating, and Layouts
Understand project-specific and enterprise-specific data
Navigate into different windows and understand Primavera layout
Customize a layout, open and save existing layout

3. Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
Describe the components that comprise EPS
Create EPS
View EPS

4. Creating a Project
Create a project
Navigate in the Projects window
View and modify information in Project Details

5. Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Define a Work Breakdown Structure and its different uses
Create multiple levels of a WBS

6. Adding Activities
Add an activity
Describe different Activity Types
Describe different Activity Duration Types and their usage
Add Steps and Step Template to an activity
Link Steps progress to Activities
View and modify information in Activity Details

7. Creating Relationships
Differentiate between the four activity relationship types.
Define effects of creating relationships on the activities.
Define different ways of creating relationships.
View the network logic diagram.

8. Scheduling
Describe types of Critical Paths and Floats, and their impacts on
schedule
Identify loops and open ends
Calculate a schedule
Analyze the scheduling log report

9. Assigning Constraints
Apply a deadline to a project
Apply a constraint to an individual activity
Describe the available constraint types

10. Formatting Schedule Data
Group activities according to a specific criteria
Sort activities
Create and apply a filter.
Understand look-ahead filter

11. Resources
Describe roles
View the roles dictionary
Describe labor, non-labor and material resources.
View the resource dictionary and understand resource properties.

12. Roles
Create Roles
Assign roles to an activity
Assign rates on roles

13. Assigning Resources and Costs
Assign labor, non-labor, and material resources to activities
Different methods to adjust Budgeted Units/Time of a resource
Assign expenses to activities

14. Analyzing Resources
Display the Resource Usage Profile and Spreadsheet
Customize the Profile and Spreadsheet
Analyze resource utilization and over-allocation.

15. Optimizing the Project Plan
Analyze schedule dates
Learn techniques to shorten a project schedule
Analyze resource utilization.
Define and perform resource leveling and resource smoothing
Analyze project costs, reduce project costs

16. Baselining the Project Plan
Create a project baseline
Display baseline bars on the Gantt Chart
Modify the bars on the Gantt Chart

17. Project Execution and Control
Describe several methods of updating the project schedule
Status activities
Suspend and resume activity
Reschedule the project and determine variances in costs, units and schedule

18. Reporting Performance
Describe reporting methods
Create a report category
Create a report with the Report wizard
Modify report's layout.
Create a report using the current layout
Print Profile, Spreadsheet, Gantt Chart, Network Diagram, WBS,
Project, Tracking and Activity Table

19. Using Codes in Primavera 
Understand Codes in Primavera 
Create a Project, Activity and Resource Code
Assign a Code to a Project, Activity or Resource
Use a Code in a Filter or Group

20. Maintaining the Project Documents Library
Describe the difference between a reference document and work
product
Create a Document Record
Link the document record to a document file
Assign the project document to an activity or WBS

21. Importing and Exporting Data
Importing and Exporting Project Data
Using the Import and Export Wizard

22. Formatting and Printing
Formatting Gantt Chart, Project, WBS, Tracking and Activity Layout
Printing Profiles, Spreadsheets, Network Diagram, Tables and Gantt Charts
Configuring Optimal printing settings

23. Creating Calendars
Understand Calendars
Creating and modifying a Calendar
Assigning a Calendar to Projects, Resources and Activities
Analyzing effect of assigning a Calendar

24. Advanced Scheduling
Understand Critical, Near-Critical and Critical Chain Activities
Calculate Multiple Float Paths
Total Float Calculation Methods

25. Using Earned Value Analysis
Understand important Earned Value Management (EVM) formulas
Display Earned Value information and graphs

26. Project Website
Create, customize and launch a Project Website
Publish Project layouts as HTML pages

27. Tracking Layout
Understand the Tracking Layout
Customize the Tracking Layout
Compare WBSs or Projects
Analyze Projects Cost or Resources Units
Forecast Schedule

28. Risk, Issues & Thresholds
Add Risk to a Project
Analyze the probability and impact of a risk
Create an Issue
Define Threshold values
Monitor Threshold and Issues

29. Claim Digger (Schedule Comparison)
Configure Claim Digger Options
Compare projects with Claim Digger

30. User Access
Create a New Primavera User
Define User Security Profiles
Apply a Security Profile to a Primavera user

31. Global Changes
Define Global Change Parameters
Apply a Global Change to a Project

32. Portfolios
Create a Project portfolio
View and open a project from a project portfolio

33. Admin Preferences, Categories
Understand, Configure Admin Preferences
Modify or Create New Admin Categories

34. Top-Down Estimation
Estimate WBS or Resource Activity
Use Estimation Method
View, Apply Estimation History

35. Storing Period Performance
Store Past Project Period Performance
View Past Project Period Performance

36. Activity/Resource Usage Profile and Spreadsheet
Display S-Curves, Histogram in Profile
Display Activity, Cost and Unit Period Data in Spreadsheet

37. Tips and tricks for creating, modifying, analyzing, updating and reporting on projects.

38. Question & Answer Session / Case Studies. Students are welcome to bring in their scheduling requirements to get instructor's feedback.