Primavera P6 Project Professional Training and Certification

1.1 Understanding Project Management
- Why Use P6 Professional?
- Your Role in the Organization
- Project Management Process Overview
- Planning, Controlling, and Managing Projects
1.2 Quick Tour
- Getting Started
- The Workspace
- What is a Layout?
- Using Wizards
1.3 Defining Administrative Preferences and Categories
- Defining Default Settings
- Defining Standard Categories and Values
- Defining Currencies
1.4 Setting User Preferences
- Formatting Time Units
- Formatting Dates
- View and Select Currency and Symbols
- Setting Mail Preferences
- Implementing Wizards Assistance
- Application Startup, Log, Group and Sort, and Column Options
- Changing Your Password
- Setting Resource Analysis for Spreadsheet and Profile
- Setting Calculations for Resource and Role Assignments
- Selecting Startup Filters

2.1 Setting up & work with the Enterprise Project Structure
- Enterprise Project Structure Overview
- Viewing and Enterprise Project Structure
- Setting Up the Enterprise Project Structure
- Working with the Enterprise Project Structure
2.2 Defining & Work with Organizational Breakdown Structure
- The Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
- Setting Up an OBS
- Viewing an OBS
- Editing OBS Elements
2.3 Defining Project and Project Detail Properties
- The Project Definition
- Adding a New Project in Enterprise Project Structure
- Defining and Assigning Project Codes and Values
- Setting Project Defaults Properties and Project Detail Tabs
2.4 Defining the Work Breakdown Structure
- The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- The 100 Percent Rule
- Viewing a Work Breakdown Structure
- Adding and Deleting WBS Elements
- Create and Assigning WBS Category Values
- Assigning Estimation Weights to WBS Elements
- Using WBS Milestones
- Earned Value Settings for Specific WBS Elements
- WBS Details Tabs
2.5 Defining Resources, Roles, Costs, Codes and Curves
- Resource Overview
- Viewing and Adding Resources
- Defining and Assigning Resources Roles
- Defining and Assigning Cost to Resources and Roles
- Defining and Assigning Resources Codes and Values
- Defining Resource Curves
- Resource Details Tabs
2.6 Setting Up a Cost Account Structure
- Cost Account Overview
- Setting Up of Cost Account Structure
2.7 Defining Calendars
- Adding Calendars
- Modifying Calendars
- Assigning Calendars
2.8 Defining Custom Fields
- Creating User-Defined Fields
- Working with User-Defined Fields
- Working with Indicators

3.1 Working with Activities
- Activities Overview
- Defining and Adding Activities to a Project
- Defining General Activity Information
- Defining Schedule Information
- Establishing Relationships
- Estimating and Assigning Resources to Activities
- Estimating Activity duration
- Assigning Resource Curves
- Future Period Bucket Planning
- Identifying Critical Path and Float Analysis
- Resource Levelling and Resource Smoothing
- Adding Expenses for Activities and Assigning Cost Accounts
- Adding Activity Steps and Work with Activity Step Templates
- Viewing Activity Summaries
- Creating and Assigning Activity Codes and Values
- Assigning Work Products and Documents
- Viewing Activity Feedback and Posting Notes
- Activity Details Tabs
3.2 Working with Project Expenses
- Expense Overview
- Adding Expenses
- Expense Details Tabs
3.3 Top-down Estimation
- Performing Top-down Estimation
- Applying Saved Top-Down Estimates to a Project
3.4 Define and Establishing Budgets
- Top-Down Budgeting
- Establishing Budgets and Tracking Budget Changes
- Establishing a Monthly Spending Plan
- Establishing Funding
- Budget Summary and Analysis
- Budget Detail Tabs
3.5 Global Change
- Using Global Change
- Renumbering Activity ID

4.1 Creating and Managing Baselines
- Creating Baselines
- Assign baselines to projects
- Comparing Current and Baseline Schedules
- Modifying a baseline manually
- Updating a baseline
4.2 Updating the Project
- The Update Process
- Choosing a Method of Updating
- Updating the Schedule
- Updating Individual Activities Manually
- Updating the Progress Automatically
- Applying Actuals
- Progress Spotlight
- Scheduling Projects
- Recalculating Assignment Costs (Manually)
- Storing Period Performance (Past Period Actuals)
- Summarizing Projects
- Job Service
4.3 Tracking Projects
- Tracking Layouts Overview
- Creating Tracking Layouts
- Customizing Tracking Layouts
- Working with Tracking Layouts
- Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data in Tracking Layouts
4.4 Earned Value Management, S-Curve, and Histograms
- What is Earned Value?
- Rules of Performance Measurement
- What does Earned Value measure?
- Factors of Earned Value Measurement System
- Earned Value Analysis in Primavera
- The S-Curves
- Generating S Curves in Primavera
- Primavera Stacked Histogram
4.5 Thresholds and Issues
- Thresholds
- Threshold Parameter Definitions
- Adding Thresholds
- Monitoring Thresholds and view Issues
- Assigning Tracking Layouts to Thresholds
- Issues
- Adding Issues
4.6 Managing Risks
- Risks
- Project Risk Management
- Identify Risks
- Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Risk Response
- Control Risks
- Customizing Risk Layouts in Primavera
4.7 Creating and Using Reflections
- What is a reflection?
- Creating and Using Reflections
- Reflection Guidelines
4.8 Checking Projects In and Out
- Managing Remote Projects
- Checking Out Projects
- Checking In Projects
4.9 Managing Project Documents
- Work Products and Documents Page

5.1 Monitoring the Project
- Monitoring the Project Schedule
- Analyzing Multiple Float Paths
- Monitoring the Resources
- Monitoring the Costs
- Monitoring % Complete Values
- Monitoring Project Delays
5.2 Controlling the Project
- What is Project Controlling?
- Bottom-up Project Controlling
- Top-down Project Controlling
- Schedule Updating and Prediction

6.1 Working with Layouts
- Layout Types
- Customizing Layouts
- Creating, Opening, and Saving Layouts
- Exporting and Importing Layouts
- Copying Resource Spreadsheet Data to MS Excel
6.2 Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data
- Grouping Data
- Sorting Data
- Filtering Data
6.3 Productive and Customizing Reports
- Reports Overview
- Reports Wizard
- Reports Editor
- Reports Groups
- Batch Reports
6.4 Printing Layouts and Reports
- Defining Page Settings
- Previewing Layouts and Reports
6.5 Publishing Layouts and Reports in HTML Format
- Publishing Layouts and Reports in HTML Format
6.6 Publishing a Project on the World Wide Web
- Project Web Site Overview
- Publishing a Project Web Site
- Customizing a Project Web Site
- Publishing Activity and Tracking Layouts
6.7 Importing and Exporting Data
- Import/Export Overview
- XER
- Primavera P6 XML
- Microsoft Excel/XLS
- Microsoft Project
- Oracle Primavera Contractor
- UN/CEFACT IMS (XML)