Primavera P6 Advanced for Project Managers

The Primavera P6 Professional Advanced training program mainly focuses on more advanced concepts of the Project Management and advanced essential features of the Primavera Software program, which includes scheduling, In-depth reports, admin, user administer, Global Changes, analyzing progress, managing multiple projects simultaneously, planning a budget and assigning constraints.

The Training course Involves Practical Knolwedge Packed with real world examples. You will learn how to handle multiple projects and tasks at same time. the top most topics are viewing, resources levelling, verifying portfolio performance, role teams and creation of numerous resources.

Primavera P6 supports the monitoring and reporting tools for multiple projects at a time. it provides following features:

• Primavera P6 Provides smooth representation of the projects so that project managers have clear cut vision, in order to get better performance without any misconception during project development phases.
• Primavera P6 assists in Optimising time and resources to speed up process in different phases of project developments.
• Primavera P6 creates smooth working environment to have better understanding and handling of the projects than ever before.
• Primavera P6 helps managing larger and complex projects in easy manner because Primavera involves many features such as scope management, time management, risk management, integration management, communication management and many more.
• Primavera P6 helps handling multiple projects at a time in order to enhance better productivity in working environment.

DAY 1 – ADVANCED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Lesson 1 – Resource and Role Analysis

• Analyze resource usage using the Resource Usage Profile.
• Analyze resource usage using the Resource Usage Spreadsheet.
• Compare staffed vs. unstaffed role allocation.

Lesson 2 – Resource Assignments Window

• Identify sections in the Resource Assignments window.
• Use the Resource Assignments window to view and edit resource allocation.
• Select data to display in the Resource Usage Spreadsheet.

Lesson 3 – Manual Resource Allocation

• Assign resource lag and duration to resource assignments.
• View and assign resource curves to manually spread allocation.

Lesson 4 – Bucket Planning

• Explain the difference between bucket planning and linear distribution.
• Edit period buckets for a resource assignment.
• Track manual curves in the project.

Lesson 5 – Leveling Resources

• Set resource leveling options.
• Level a project to resolve resource conflicts.
• Level based on activity and project priorities.

Lesson 6 – Storing Period Performance

• Display financial periods as columns.
• Store past period performance.

Case Study 1 – Analyzing Resource Usage

DAY 2: ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Case Study 1 – Analyzing Resource Usage (continued)

Lesson 7 – Duration Types

• Store past period performance.
•  Determine which Duration Type works best in a given situation.
• Assign a Duration Type to an activity.

Lesson 8 – Calculating Percent Complete

• Describe the three Percent Complete Types.
• Determine which Percent Complete Type to use based on how your organization reports progress.
• Explain how activity percentages are calculated based on the Percent Complete Type chosen.
• Use weighted steps to calculated Percent Complete.

Lesson 9 – Earned Value

• Define earned value.
• Define Performance Percent Complete.
• Review the results of different earned value techniques.
• Recognize the benefits of using earned value analysis.

Lesson 10 – Advanced Scheduling

• Calculate multiple float paths when scheduling.
• Explain the difference between scheduling logic options.
• Describe a calendar’s effect on lag.

Lesson 11 – User-Defined Fields and Global Change

• Create a user-defined field.
• Run a global change.

Lesson 12 – Managing Multiple Projects

• Filter and apply progress to multiple projects.
• Set the default project for multiple projects.
• Explain how project elements are handled in multi-project mode.