Course Description

If you, as a project manager, are expected to handle multiple projects with ease and efficiency, then you need tools that allow you to incorporate project management best practices to plan, prioritize, manage and evaluate projects, programs and portfolios. Oracle Primavera P6 V18.8 is a new and improved version of the integrated project portfolio management tool that helps you perform all project related activities with ease and efficiency.

The new features added to Oracle Primavera P6 V18.8 include:

• Ability to import and export Excel files of data on the Enterprise Data page.
• An HTML5 version of the Portfolio Capacity Planning functionality and Dashboard Scorecards.
• A new HTML5 user interface for Risk.

KnowledgeHut's interactive course will help you master this tool and leverage its various facets to organize projects with up to 100,000 activities. The in-depth courseware and hands on exercises will teach you about work break down structures, adding activities, maintaining the project documents library, and optimizing the project plan while ensuring there is minimum threat of risk or discrepancies. Join today and learn to use this tool to create maximum business value while staying within governing principles and policies.

Objectives

What you will learn

• Learn to manage multiple projects successfully
• Apply industry best practices in project management
• Fully appreciate the tools and techniques of Oracle Primavera
• Set admin and user preferences
• Plan, control, and organize project activities
• Execute the project within time and budget constraints
• Assign roles and responsibilities and allocate resources
• Create relationships between tasks and work out project schedules
• Create reports that need to be shared with relevant people

You will also get:

• 24 hours of interactive, classroom based training program
• Hands-on sessions conducted by highly experienced and skilled trainers
• Easy-to-understand training program
• Downloadable e-book
• Dedicated post training support and assistance 
• 23 PMI PDUs
• Course completion certificate

Audience

Indicative roles or people who should attend this training program are:

• Project Managers
• Project Engineers
• Project Coordinators
• Planning Managers
• Planning Engineers
• Project Cost Control Engineers
• Quantity Surveyors
• Civil Engineers
• among others.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for attending this course.

Content

• Introduction
• The Five Project Management Process Groups
• Starting up and Navigation
• The Enterprise Project Structure, The Organisational Breakdown Structure and Calendars
• Open a Sample Project
• Import/Export Projects
• Set Admin Preferences
• Set Admin Categories
• Edit User Preferences
• Create a New Project
• Overview on the Project Details
• Understand the Concept of Work Breakdown Structure
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure
• Overview on WBS Details
• Add Activities
• Overview on the Activities Details
• Discuss the 4 Relationship Types between activities
• Add Relationships to Activities
• Discuss the Critical Path Method
• Create and set Enterprise Calendar
• Use Tools -> Global change to switch project calendar
• Schedule the project
• Assign Constraints to Activities
• Maintain the Project Documents Library
• Format Schedule Data (Filters, Group and Sort, Columns, Bars, Timescale)
• Layouts
• Organize Activities by Activity Codes
• Define Roles and Resources
• Assign Roles
• Assign Resources and expenses
• Analyse Resources
• Optimize the Project Plan
• Baseline the Project Schedule
• Execute the Project
• Report Performance