Duration: 2 days (13 hours)

Cost: £1020 +VAT per person (prices vary for bespoke courses – please enquire)

Our P6 Project Planning and Controls Fundamentals course is an intensive two day course aimed at experienced planners and project controllers who need to use Primavera to create and manage detailed plans. It includes creating EPS levels, projects, WBS levels and detailed activity and resource planning.

Experience of project planning and scheduling techniques is essential.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Create a programme structure
  • Create projects and set project properties
  • Create programme milestones
  • Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Create detailed plans including activities, links and resources
  • Progress the schedule
  • Manage actuals
  • Customise layouts
  • Use the reporting tools in Primavera

  • Creating EPS elements
  • Defining the programme structure
  • Navigating the EPS structure
  • Finding programmes

  • Creating projects
  • Setting project properties
  • Validating projects
  • Assigning project codes
  • Building a work breakdown structure
  • Creating a WBS structure
  • Creating WBS elements
  • Work package management

  • Allocating top down budgets
  • Budget change

  • Creating programme milestones
  • Setting constraints
  • Linking milestones
  • Scheduling
  • Using the schedule function
  • Detailed activity planning
  • Creating activities
  • Relationship types
  • Creating relationships
  • Adding milestones
  • Assigning activity codes

  • Resource types
  • Creating resources
  • Resource attributes
  • Assigning resources
  • Switching resources
  • Split load resource assignment
  • Reduced hours resource assignment
  • Checking workload
  • Reviewing workload
  • Dealing with resource conflicts
  • Assignments view
  • Baselining
  • Creating baselines
  • Assigning baselines

  • Creating layouts
  • Customising columns
  • Setting filters
  • Sorting and grouping
  • Changing the timescale
  • Customising the Gantt
  • Creating activity code breakdown structures

  • Updating task status and remaining duration
  • Setting the data date

  • Exporting and importing information
  • Primavera standard reports
  • Creating custom reports
  • Creating portfolios

  • Printing your schedule
  • Printing to other packages

Cost: £1020 +VAT per person

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Please email training@underscore-group.com if you would like to discuss the course before booking or to discuss bespoke programme options.

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