Course Details
The Primavera P6 course is designed to provide learners with the knowledge and practical skills required to use Primavera P6 for project planning and scheduling. The course covers the essential tools and techniques used to develop, manage, monitor and update project schedules.
Participants will learn how to work with project structures, activities, resources, scheduling, baselines, cost loading and project reporting. The course also introduces practical planning concepts that can help learners work with complex projects using Primavera P6.
What You’ll Learn
- Introduction to project planning and planning basics
- Understanding the Planning Engineer role
- Introduction to Project Management Plans (PMP)
- Microsoft Excel fundamentals required for Primavera P6
- Familiarization with Primavera P6
- Creating Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
- Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
- Creating and managing projects
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Creating activities and activity relationships
- Creating project, activity and resource calendars
- Resource loading
- Working with codes, filters and currencies
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Cost loading methods
- Cash flow and manpower histograms
- Creating and assigning baselines
- Project scheduling techniques
- Updating and monitoring baseline schedules
- Program import and export
- Customizing report layouts
- Preparing weekly and monthly reports
- Preparing delay registers
- Delay analysis
- Introduction to Extension of Time (EOT)
- Revised and recovery programmes
- Common mistakes in baseline programmes
- Tips and techniques for improving workflow
- Developing baseline schedules for small, medium and large-scale projects
The course material includes three practical projects, progressing from a small-scale project to a medium-scale project and finally a large-scale project as the final task.
Additional Information
- Course Duration: 30 Hours
- Certification: Professional Qualification attested by Qatar Chamber of Commerce
- Tools Required: Laptop, mouse and notebook
- Suitable For: Learners interested in project planning, scheduling and Primavera P6
- Practical Projects: Includes three project-based assignments covering small-, medium- and large-scale projects
- Final Task: Development of an individual baseline schedule for a large-scale project
