Oracle Primavera P6 Professional Training in Lake Charles, LA

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LAKE CHARLES P6 CLASSROOM DETAILS:

Class Location:

P6 classes in Lake Charles are usually held at the Courtyard by Marriott:
2995 L'Auberge Blvd.
Lake Charles, LA 70601

Class Hours:

This 3-day course is usually scheduled to run Monday-Wednesday and is offered once-a-month, most months, at this location. To allow attendees travel time on the Monday that the course begins, this course starts after lunch, at 1 p.m., on the Monday. Remaining days will start at 9 a.m. and each day will end by 5 p.m. Class may end earlier, depending upon enrollment.

Class Format:

Hands-On and Instructor-Led.

Classroom Details:

Lunch will be provided each full day of class. Computers with the P6 software loaded are provided for use during class, so there is no need to bring your own.

Certificate & Materials:

Students will receive a copy of the course materials to keep for reference after class and a certificate of completion, upon full completion of the course. Course hours: 19.

Summary: This 3-day P6 course leads you through hands-on workshops that create and track an entire project to completion, using the three elements of project management: schedule, resource and costs.

 This Basic P6 Training Course covers navigation, functionality and workshops in Primavera P6 Professional (Primavera’s client/server based solution.)




 Build the foundation for successful project management in P6 through hands-on, basic training.




 Learn planning and scheduling with Primavera P6.




 Scheduling techniques and best practices will be also covered.

Who Should Attend?
Planners and Schedulers, Program Managers, Project Managers and New Primavera P6 Users.

Prerequisites:
Fundamental project management training, an understanding of CPM scheduling concepts and knowledge of Windows™

Learn Outcomes

•  Create a Project with Activities and Resources
•  Calculate a Schedule
•  Analyze Resource/Cost Data
•  Compare Current vs. Target Schedules

At the completion of this course the student will have learned to:

•  Add a Project to the Project Structure
•  Create a Work Breakdown Structure
•  Add Reference Documents
•  Add Activities
•  Add Steps and Roles to Activities
•  Create Relationships
•  Schedule a Project
•  Add Constraints
•  Organize Activities
•  Assign Resources and Costs to Activities
•  Analyze Resource/Cost Usage
•  Optimize the Schedule
•  Status the Project
•  Analyze the Statused Project

Course Outline

SECTION ONE

Introduction to and understanding data in Primavera P6 Professional

The Project Management Life Cycle

Overview and Navigating

Creating a Project

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

SECTION TWO

Adding Activities

Building & Assigning Calendars

Workshop Case Study: Creating a Project

Creating Relationships & Schedule Logic

Scheduling Techniques & Calculating Critical Path

Assigning Constraints

Grouping/Sorting/Layouts/Filters

Understanding & Defining Roles & Resources

Assigning Roles & Resources

SECTION THREE

Optimizing the Project Plan (Timing, Resources & Costs)

Baselining the Project Plan

Importing and Exporting Schedule Data

Workshop Case Study: Optimizing the Project

Methods of Applying Progress

Project Schedule Updating – Execution and Control

Creating Reflection Projects (What-If Analysis and Remote Updating)

Reporting Performance

Final Workshop Case Study: Project Execution and Control

WORKSHOPS

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

Adding Activities

Creating Relationships

Scheduling

Assigning Resources and Costs

Analyzing Resources

Project Execution and Control

PLEASE NOTE

Please use the content in these outlines as a general guide as to the topics that will be taught. We cannot guarantee that all the topics listed in an outline will be covered during your particular class. Based on student need, your instructor may have to adjust the course content to suit your class, unexpected events, as well as the composition and skill level of the students in attendance. Course content is subject to change without notice. Course content may change with new releases of the sotware and training materials.