Oracle Primavera P6 - A to Z

The course is divided into 9 Sections consisting of a total of 31 videos. One practical IT Building Construction Project has been taken as an example to help the students learn the process of scheduling & project management. The project has set of activities, WBS, resources, costs, baseline, expenses, documents, risks, etc. Everything is explained in the simplest way possible through real examples to help the students get an industry like exposure. It is ensured that every video is linked to the real project scenarios unlike other teachers who randomly take topics and examples having absolutely zero correlation with each other. This will also help you get the real feel of executing a project at site.

The flow of the course is as follows -

Section 1 (Introduction) - Shows the outline of the complete course and is meant to make you aware of the User Interface of the software.

Section 2 (Planning the Project) - Here you will learn to create the real project by adding Organizational Structure, Company's Divisions, Project, and Work Packages.

Section 3 (Working with Activities) - Talks every minute detail of adding the activities and tasks. Assign relationships, adjust settings, assign constraints, and a lot more stuff.

Section 4 (Working with Calendars) - Create and Assign your own customized calendars as per the project site requirements. Set working hours, days, exceptions, etc. Also, learn the most important feature of Global Change of P6.

Section 5 (Resources) - Create labor, material, P&M, staff, etc. as resources for your project and assign them to the respective activities. Learn everything about the resources through histograms, levelling, usage profiles, assignment, etc.

Section 6 (Codes) - Learn about Activity & Resource codes and get acquainted with the Grouping, Sorting, Filter By options of P6.

Section 7 (Progress Tracking & EVA) - Here comes the most crucial part that helps you grasp the concept of Earned Value Management in Construction through updation of project progress status.

Section 8 (Additional Settings) - Learn about risk management (identification, impact, mitigating), Work products & documents (claim letters, contract, WO, PO, etc.), adding expenses and Indirect costs, adding and creating currencies, admin categories, preferences, etc.

Section 9 (Reporting, Exporting, Importing) - Close the course by generating reports and presenting them in the most impressive way to your supervisors and boss. Also, learn importing and exporting resources, roles, projects from/to various formats like excel, MSP, P6, etc.

And, you are ready to take over the scheduling duties.