Advanced Primavera Training Syllabus

1. General
a. Introduction to Primavera.
b. Setting up Enterprise Project Structure (EPS), OBS
c. Adding a Project.
d. Adding Activity ID, Activity Name & Activity Duration.
e. R e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n A c t i v i t i e s & S c h e d u l i n g .
f. Customizing Bars & layouts.
g. Creating Work Products & Documents.
h. Global Changes

2. Project Calendars.
a. P r o j e c t C a l e n d a r
b. G l o b a l C a l e n d a r
c. Resource Calendar
d. Assigning Project Calendars.

3. Grouping and Filtering

a. Work Break Down Structure (WBS).
b. Activity Codes & Values.
c. Grouping
d. Filtering

4. Resource Analysis and Levelling

a. Defining the Resources Role & Cost.
b. Assigning Roles to Resources.
c. Defining the Resource Curves.
d. Assigning Curve to a Resource
e. Resources Usage Profile / Spread Sheets.
f. Activity Usage Profile / Spread sheets.
g. Activity ‘S’ Curves and Resource ‘S’ Curves
h. Resource Levelling

5. Earned Value Analysis (EVA)

a. Define EVA
b. Defining Cost Accounts, Currencies
c. Top down Estimation
d. Top down Budgeting
e. Cost Analysis – Baseline and Current Schedule

6. Updating the Project

a. Creating Base line Plan
b. Assignment Base Line Plan
c. Status Updating
d. Project Tracking and Monitoring
e. Use of Activity Type, Duration Type and Constraints
f. Projected Results – Finish Dates, Duration

7. Reports Generation
a. Defining Project Reports
 b. Report W izards
c. Different Types of Tabular Reports
d. Preparing Graphical Reports
e. Highlighting Progress in Bar chart
f. Customizing Reports
g. Thresholds and Issues

8. Other General
a. Claim Digger
b. Using Reflections
c. Check in – Check out
d. Time Sheets