Primavera P6 Fundamentals
Self paced, hands-on course
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Recommended completion time: Within 5 days of starting
Recommended pacing: 2+/- hours/session
Time to complete: 8+/- hours (typical)
Your enrollment provides access to this P6 training course for 30 days. It is organized into a series of lessons, hands-on exercises, and a final exam, all of which are viewed and performed within our learning environment; there is no software to install or exercise to download. A certificate is available for download after successful completion. See course navigation tutorial.
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PRIMAVERA P6 FUNDAMENTALS CURRICULUM
At the completion of this course students will be able to:
- Navigate and Configure the Work Space
- Add a Project to the Project Structure
- Create a Work Breakdown Structure
- Add Activities
- Add Codes to Activities
- Create Relationships
- Schedule a Project
- Organize Activities
- Assign Resources and Costs
- Analyze Resource/Cost Usage
- Status the Project
- Create reports
COURSE OUTLINE:
Lesson 1: General Navigation and Menus
Lesson 2: Enterprise Project Structure
Lesson 3: New Project Wizard
Lesson 4: Opening and Closing a Project
Lesson 5: Calendars
Lesson 6: Work Breakdown Structure
Lesson 7: Layouts
Lesson 8: Adding Activities
Lesson 9: Renumbering Activity IDs
Lesson 10: Creating and Assigning Activity Codes
Lesson 11: Adding Logic
Lesson 12: Relationship Types and Lag
Lesson 13: Schedule Errors
Lesson 14: Creating Resources
Lesson 15: Assigning Resources
Lesson 16: Expenses
Lesson 17: Unit and Cost Views
Lesson 18: Baselines
Lesson 19: Updating
Lesson 20: Schedule Comparison
Lesson 21: Exporting
Lesson 22: Print Settings
Lesson 23: Reports
Primavera P6 Fundamentals
Duration: 2 Days
Next Scheduled Open Enrollment (Virtual) Class: TBA
This course provides hands-on training for Primavera’s client/server based solution. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling. Scheduling techniques will be covered. This two-day course leads you through hands-on workshops that create and track an entire project to completion. All workshops and instruction use the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resource and costs.
PRIMAVERA P6 FUNDAMENTALS CURRICULUM
LEARNING 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 BE ABLE TO:
Add a Project to the Project Structure
Create a Work Breakdown Structure
Add Reference Documents
Add Activities
Add Steps and Codes to Activities
Create Relationships
Schedule a Project
Add Constraints
Organize Activities
Assign Resources and Costs
Analyze Resource/Cost Usage
Optimize the Schedule
Status the Project
Analyze the Updated Project
Introduction
Navigating Structure
Creating a Project
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Creating Activity Codes
Adding Activities
Maintaining the Project Documents Library
Creating Relationships
Scheduling
Adding Constraints
Formatting Data
Defining Resources
Assigning Resources and Costs
Analyzing Resources and Costs
Optimizing the Project Plan
Base lining the Project Plan
Project Execution and Control
Reporting Performance
Project Web Site
Workshops:
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
Adding Activities
Creating Relationships
Scheduling
Viewing Schedule Data
Assigning Resources and Costs
Analyzing Resources and Costs
Updating the Schedule
Primavera P6 Advanced
Duration: 1 Day
Next Scheduled Open Enrollment (Virtual) Class: TBA
This course provides hands-on training for Primavera’s Web-based business intelligence solution. Participants will create a project, create activities and relationships, customize activity views, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and over allocated resources, and analyze portfolios. Participants also will customize dashboards. Hands-on workshops help students create and track an entire project to completion.
PRIMAVERA P6 PROFESSIONAL ADVANCED
COURSE OUTLINE:
Creating a Project Using Project Architect User-Defined Fields and Global Change Assigning Codes
Portfolios
Advanced Scheduling
Monitor Thresholds and Issues
Importing and Exporting Data
Updating Baselines
Duration Types
Calculating Percent Complete
Earned Value Analysis
Activity Usage Profile and Spreadsheet
Top – Down Budgeting
Top – Down Estimating
Risk Documentation
Tracking Layouts
Importing and Exporting Data
Transferring Data Between Primavera and Excel ° Claimdigger
Using Multi-Currency
Primavera P6 Enterprise (Web)
Duration: 1 Day
Next Scheduled Open Enrollment (Virtual) Class: TBA
This course provides hands-on training for Primavera’s Web-based business intelligence solution. Participants will create a project, create activities and relationships, customize activity views, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and over allocated resources, and analyze portfolios. Participants also will customize dashboards. Hands-on workshops help students create and track an entire project to completion.
PRIMAVERA P6 ENTERPRISE (WEB)
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Customize Personal and Project workspaces
Manage a project from creation through initiation
Analyze project schedule and assess resource over allocation View and approve times sheets from project resources Collaborate with project team members
AT THE COMPLETION OF THIS COURSE THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
Describe Primavera modules
Customize Personal Workspace
Describe the Project Management Life Cycle
Describe Enterprise Project Structure and Work Breakdown Structure
Create a project
Customize the Project Workspace and Workgroup
Create a Work Breakdown Structure
Add activities
Create relationships
Schedule the project
Assign constraints
Assign resources
Optimize, execute, and analyze the project plan
Initiate a project request
Manage documents
Creating and analyzing portfolios
Introduction
Describe Primavera modules
Customize Personal Workspace
Describe the Project Management Life Cycle
Describe Enterprise Project Structure and Work Breakdown Structure
Create a project
Customize the Project Workspace and Workgroup
Create a Work Breakdown Structure
Add activities
Create relationships
Schedule the project
Assign constraints
Assign resources
Optimize the project plan
Execute the project plan
Analyze the project plan
Initiate a project request
Manage documents
Creating and analyzing portfolios
Our Unique Approach
At Taradigm, we recognize the need for training that can fit in with your busy schedule, and a robust program like Primavera P6 is no exception. With that in mind we have developed P6 training options that are succinct and to the point.
We have several options for different needs, all created in the spirit of ‘just-in-time’ training, so you can start using the software to enhance your day-to-day tasks with speed and efficiency, instead of letting the software slow you down.
Here’s what you can expect from Taradigm:
- Our training options are developed in house to fit the needs of our clients
- Our instructors are professional Primavera P6 Schedulers, and have over 10 years of experience in the field
- Our P6 training options are designed to be completed in 1-2 days, with a live instructor, or through our self paced, hands-on course
- Our training options are affordable and require no travel for you or your employees
Our P6 Training Options
Our approach to P6 training is based on the number of students and their experience level. We offer Virtual open-enrollment training for smaller groups of beginners, an online self-paced course for individual beginners, and custom virtual or onsite training for groups of intermediate and advanced students.
With all of our training options, you can expect to master the skills needed to build a project schedule from the ground up, in the most efficient way possible.
Virtual Instructor-led, Open-enrollment
Each month, one of our senior schedulers and instructors hosts a virtual online Primavera P6 Fundamentals course. This course covers P6 essentials and is intended for students who have never used Primavera P6. The course is 2 days long, and often concludes early the second day to allow time for questions and one-on-one time with the instructor.
Each day is broken up into several lectures with corresponding hands-on exercises, and includes three breaks. Typically the instructor will explain and demonstrate functions in P6 using video conferencing software, and then the students will be asked to do an exercise in P6. Our virtual courses include access to P6 through our learning environment, so there’s no need to download the software!
Self-paced, Hands-on
Our most affordable and accessible P6 training option is our online, hands-on self-paced Primavera P6 Fundamentals course. This course is based on our virtual instructor led course, but is more streamlined, and structured to allow students to complete on their own time.
The course is taken on our website through our intuitive learning management system, and is broken up into lectures and exercises. The exercises allow students to experience P6 in their web browser through guided software simulations, which keeps students focused on the material and eliminates the need to troubleshoot the software. The course includes a final exam and a downloadable certificate of completion. A sample of the course is available here.
Custom P6 Training
For intermediate and advanced students we offer custom P6 training options so we can deliver the information and skills you need without taking up too much of your busy schedule. Our instructors are available to go on site, or host virtual classes. Custom courses can be anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days depending on your needs, and the material is based on a discovery call with one of our instructors. For more information on custom P6 training options please reach out to us!
