Professional Development Centre

National University of Sciences and Technology

Course Topic: Planning & Scheduling Using
Primavera P6
Date: 25-27 Feb, 2015

Venue: CIE Building, NUST H-12 Campus

Course Overview

Oracle's Primavera P6 Professional Project Management gives today's project managers

and schedulers the one thing they value most: control. Primavera P6 Professional
Project Management, the recognized standard for high-performance project
management software, is designed to handle large-scale, highly sophisticated and
multifaceted projects. It can be used to organize projects up to 100,000 activities, and it
provides unlimited resources and an unlimited number of target plans. Massive data
requires sophisticated, yet highly flexible organization tools to provide you a multitude
of ways to organize, filter and sort activities, projects, and resources.

Training Objectives

• Define Project Management Processes

• Use Primavera P6 IDE & Its Features
• Create a Project with Activities & Resources
• Calculate Project Schedule
• Analyze Resource/ Cost Data
• Optimize & Baseline Project Plan
• Compare Current vs. Target Schedule
• Going Through Enhanced Project Management Features & Capabilities
Training Methodology

This course provides hands-on CBT for Primavera’s PM solution, leading participants
through the entire project life cycle, from planning to execution. All workshops and
instructions stress the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resource
and costs.
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National University of Sciences and Technology
Resource Person
Muhammad Waseem Khan

Target Audience
Project Managers, Project Planners/ Schedulers, Project Management Aspirants, System
Administrators, IT Managers/ Professionals, Project Consultants, Project/ Construction
Engineers, Information Officers, Operation Executives, Process Improvement Champions, PMO
Specialists, Capital Project Executives

Benefits to Organization
 Value addition in Project Management implementation

 Plan and execute the Right Projects—Easily and Affordably

 Make the best use of limited resources

 Increase team productivity and the speed of project delivery

 Bring the right products to market within market windows

 Improve governance and accountability, and meet regulatory requirements

 Manage short-duration, high-intensity projects such as shutdowns

 Improving the view for Better Decision-making

Benefits to Individual
 Effectively plan, manage, and control complex projects

 Balance resource capacity

 Allocate best resources and track progress

 Delivering Projects on time and Within Budget

 Monitor and visualize project performance versus plan using Smart Tools

 Conduct what-if analysis and analyze alternative project plans

 Managing change throughout the Project lifecycle

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Course Outline

Day 1:

 Lesson 1
o Introduction to Primavera
 Lesson 2
o Project Management Lifecycle
 Lesson 3
o Data, Navigation, and Layout
 Lesson 4
o Enterprise Project Structure/ OBS
 Lesson 5
o Creating a Project
o Adding Project Details
 Lesson 6
o Creating & Managing WBS
Day 2:

 Lesson 7
o Adding & Managing Activities/Types
o Project/ Activity Calendar
 Lesson 8
o Creating & Handling Activity Relationships
 Lesson 9
o Project Scheduling
 Lesson 10
o Assigning Constraints (Project/ Activity Level)
 Lesson 11
o Maintaining Project Documents Library
 Lesson 12
o Formatting Scheduled Data
 Lesson 13
o Defining & Assigning Resources, Cost & Expenses
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Day 3:

 Lesson 14
o Analyzing Resources & Cost
 Lesson 15
o Optimizing Project Plan (Schedule, Resource)
 Lesson 16
o Baselining Project Plan
 Lesson 17
o Project Execution & Control
(Spotlight Feature)
 Lesson 18
o Reporting Performance (Screens, Filters, Grouping)
o Primavera Visualizer
 Lesson 19
o Project Website
 Lesson 20
o RECAP