Module I: Project Management

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1 Introduction
Instructor / student introductions
Overview of planning and scheduling
What is Project, Project Management
Features of Project Management
Risks associated with Project
Project Management Life Cycle
Identify the five process groups in the Project
Management Life Cycle

2 The Project Life-Cycle

Preconstruction phase
Procurement phase (Bidding and award phase)
Construction Phase
Construction Phase

3 Specific Construction Industry Outline

Housing Industry
Road and Building Industry
Energy Industry
Other industry
 Module II-Primavera P6

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1 Introduction
Instructor / student introductions
Overview of planning and scheduling
Review the relationship between Primavera and the
Project Management Life Cycle
Identify the five process groups in the Project
Management Life Cycle
An introduction to Primavera P6
The Trainees will know the
different Phases of Project
Management Cycle, and their Basic revision of Projects,
interaction in Primavera Project Management cycle,
interface. Furthermore, they will project properties, Project
be acquainted with the Primavera Management cycle, basic
project management software, its knowledge of Planning and
features and various similarities scheduling.Understaning of
and dissimilarities with Microsoft PERT-CPM and Graphical
Project. representations

2 Understanding P6 Data

Describing Enterprise and Project-Specific data The Trainees will know to

Logging In prepare EPS, Link their EPS with
Opening an Existing Project OBS. They will know to prepare
WBS of the projects. In the What is organogram, how to
Opening and Customizing Layouts fill organization chart with
Primavera interface, they will
Enterprise Project Structure and Organizational Break create, open and edit new concerned supervisors.How to
down structures projects. The project information fill Projects charter
Describing Components of EPS and OBS will be uploaded in P6
3 Creating a Project
·         Create the new
project in project window 
·         Open and view the
Create a project details of Project
·         Linking project with
Navigating in the Projects Window EPS & OBS elements
·         Other information Basic understanding of WBS
Viewing Project Details related to the project hierarchy
4 Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
·         Adding WBS, its
hierarchy
Defining a Work Breakdown Structure ·         Adding WBS details
·         Viewing WBS
Creating the WBS Hierarchy sequences

5 Activities
Describing an Activity and its Components

Describing Activity Types

Adding Activities
Know the basic input and
Adding a Notebook Topic addition process for activities,
Adding Steps to an Activity steps, providing the codes, Activity on Node, and
Assigning Activity Codes addition etc  Activity on arrow concepts
6 Creating Relationships
Viewing a Network Logic Diagram
Relationship Types
Creating Relationships

Develop the relationships

between the activities, view the
logic diagram, adding Leads and Dummies, relationships , hard
Lead/ Lags lags etc  and soft constraints etc.
7 Assigning Constraints
Applying an Overall Deadline to a Project

Addition of hard and soft

constraints to the activities.
Watch how scheduling is affected
Apply a Constraint to an Activity  by the use of constraints

8 Calendars
Global calendars
Project Calendars
Resource Calendars
Linking Calendars to Activities
Project Dates Work on different types of
Milestones calendars. Add milestones and
Deadlines  deadlines to the project schedule Colander, and its application
9 Using Reflection Projects

Working with reflection and

Creating a Reflection Project merging the changes to the added
Merging Changes scopes 
10 Formatting Schedule Data
Grouping Activities

 Viewing , filtering customizing

Sorting and formatting the charts
Filtering
Customizing charts and formats
11 Roles and Resources
Describing Roles and Resources
Know the basic concepts of
resources, resource pools and
Viewing Dictionaries roles 
12 Assigning Roles
Assigning Roles to an Activity

 Assign roles to an activity and

Assign Rates on Roles provide rates to the roles
13 Assigning Resources
Assigning Resources

Assign resources and allocating

Adjusting Budgeted Units/Time the units of resources 
14 Analyzing Resources
 Displaying the resource usage
Displaying the Resource Usage Profile profile

15 Optimizing the Project Plan

Analyzing Schedule Dates
Shortening a Project Schedule Optimizing the project
Analyzing Resource Availability scheduling  
16 Creating a Baseline Plan
 Assigning and maintaining
Display Baseline Bars on the Gantt Chart baselines

17 Import and Export

Importing Project
Importing and exporting the
Exporting Project project from Excel, MSP and
Importing Resources other compatible versions and
Exporting Resources working with them.
18 Extras
Administrative Preferences and Categories Understand the basic
Currencies administrative preferences
Others offered by P6
19 Earned Value Analysis
What is Earned Value
Analysis in Project?
Generation of S curves and
Basics of EVA in P6  To carry EVA in P6 platform  their application
20 Scheduling
·         Scheduling and
Performing a Forward and Backward Pass resource leveling methods.
·         To know the ways
of interpreting the concept
Describing Float of Float 
21 Project Execution and Control
Describing Methods for Updating the Schedule
Using Progress Spotlight
Status of Activities
Rescheduling the Project
Reporting Performance
Describing Reporting Methods Basic concept viewing the project
progress, tracking the actual
Running a Schedule Report progress verses planned; report
Creating a report with the Report Wizard the performances in difference
Printing the Reports formatting styles. 
22 Summary and Close Up

1.       List of Reference materials

·         P6 materials provided during course

·         NTNU course book on Construction Project Management
·         Project Management-Herald Keznner
·         Tutorials provided by the instructor
 Module III- Microsoft Project

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