Primavera P6 – A To Z

Become a Certified Professional P6 Scheduler

What you’ll learn
Learn about project management in the most practical way through an IT Building Construction Project example problem
Scheduling any small to large scale project using Primavera P6
Generate information and analyze significant parameters for your project that help your boss take decisions
Tracking the progress of the projects, estimate timelines, and budgets

Requirements
No prior experience required. Suited for any fresher seeking to learn project management from basics

Description
The course is divided into 9 Sections consisting of a total of 31 videos. One practical IT Building Construction Project has been taken as an example to help the students learn the process of scheduling & project management. The project has set of activities, WBS, resources, costs, baseline, expenses, documents, risks, etc. Everything is explained in the simplest way possible through real examples to help the students get an industry like exposure. It is ensured that every video is linked to the real project scenarios unlike other teachers who randomly take topics and examples having absolutely zero correlation with each other. This will also help you get the real feel of executing a project at site.The flow of the course is as follows -Section 1 (Introduction) – Shows the outline of the complete course and is meant to make you aware of the User Interface of the software.Section 2 (Loading the Project) – Here you will learn to create the real project by adding Organizational Structure, Company’s Divisions, Project, and Work Packages.Section 3 (Working with Activities) – Talks every minute detail of adding the activities and tasks. Assign relationships, adjust settings, assign constraints, and a lot more stuff.Section 4 (Working with Calendars) – Create and Assign your own customized calendars as per the project site requirements. Set working hours, days, exceptions, etc. Also, learn the most important feature of Global Change of P6.Section 5 (Resources) – Create labor, material, P&M, staff, etc. as resources for your project and assign them to the respective activities. Learn everything about the resources through histograms, levelling, usage profiles, assignment, etc.Section 6 (Codes) – Learn about Activity & Resource codes and get acquainted with the Grouping, Sorting, Filter By options of P6.Section 7 (Progress Tracking & EVA) – Here comes the most crucial part that helps you grasp the concept of Earned Value Management in Construction through updation of project progress status.Section 8 (Additional Settings) – Learn about risk management (identification, impact, mitigating), Work products & documents (claim letters, contract, WO, PO, etc.), adding expenses and Indirect costs, adding and creating currencies, admin categories, preferences, etc.Section 9 (Reporting, Exporting, Importing) – Close the course by generating reports and presenting them in the most impressive way to your supervisors and boss. Also, learn importing and exporting resources, roles, projects from/to various formats like excel, MSP, P6, etc.And, you are ready to take over the scheduling duties.

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Loading the project

Lecture 2 Creating OBS

Lecture 3 Creating EPS

Lecture 4 Creating New Project

Lecture 5 Creating New WBS

Section 3: Working with activities

Lecture 6 Creating New Activities

Lecture 7 Activity Settings

Lecture 8 Duration Types

Lecture 9 Activity Relationships

Lecture 10 Activity Constraints

Section 4: Working with Calendars

Lecture 11 Create Calendars

Lecture 12 Assign Calendars

Section 5: All about Resources and Roles

Lecture 13 Creating Resources & Roles

Lecture 14 Resource Settings

Lecture 15 Assign Resources to Activities

Lecture 16 Resource Usage Profile

Lecture 17 Resource Assignment Window

Section 6: Codes

Lecture 18 Activity Codes

Lecture 19 Resource Codes

Section 7: Progress Tracking & EVA

Lecture 20 Create and Assign Baseline

Lecture 21 Project Status Update

Lecture 22 Earned Value Analysis

Section 8: Additional Settings

Lecture 23 Updating Risks

Lecture 24 WPs and Docs

Lecture 25 Adding Expenses & Indirect Costs

Lecture 26 Updating Currencies

Lecture 27 Admin Categories

Lecture 28 Admin Prefernces

Section 9: Reporting, Exporting, Importing

Lecture 29 Printing Reports

Lecture 30 Exporting

Lecture 31 Importing

This course is meant for anyone who is willing to learn scheduling and project management as a whole. This really adds to your resume as every organization looks for scheduling and planning as the most basic skill in any potential candidate.,Freshers who look for a role in planning/scheduling domain in consultancy/contracting firms,Experienced engineers who wish to apply their knowledge to project scheduling through advanced software like P6