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Planning and Control with Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional

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Planning and Control with Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional

Master Project Planning and Control with Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional

updated on icon Updated on Jun, 2025

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English [CC]

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Lectures -155

Duration -17.5 hours

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Course Description

This course is best suited for program managers and project control staff evaluating the software against your organizational requirements, and project schedulers and experienced project personnel who wish to learn how to use the software to schedule and control projects.

Primavera is an enterprise project portfolio management software. It includes project management, scheduling, risk analysis, opportunity management, resource management, and collaboration and control capabilities, and integrates with other enterprise software such as Oracle and SAP’s ERP systems. This course aims to teach students how to use Primavera Project Manager P6 PPM Professional to plan and control their projects efficiently.

You will start by getting introduced to the user interface and how to plan projects without resources in Oracle Primavera Project Manager P6 PPM Professional. Then, you will understand filters, layouts, and printing. You will also learn about baselines and updating an unresourced project. You will be creating and assigning roles and resources and controlling projects with resources and costs. After that, you will set up and administer a database. Finally, you will look at the advanced features including import/export, activity codes, custom data fields, and global change.

By the end of the course, you will successfully learn how to use Primavera Project Manager P6 PPM Professional Client to plan and control your project efficiently.

The code files and all resource files are uploaded on the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Planning-and-Control-with-Oracle-Primavera-P6-PPM-Professional

Goals

  • Introduction to the user interface
  • Plan projects without resources, filters, layouts, and printing
  • Baselines and updating an un-resourced project
  • Creating and assigning roles and resources
  • Controlling projects with resources and costs
  • Set up and administer a database and other more advanced features

Prerequisites

  • You will need your computer loaded with Oracle Primavera P6 and experience in using application software such as Microsoft Office. Individuals with an understanding of how projects are planned, scheduled, and controlled, including understanding the project management process applicable to your projects.
Planning and Control with Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Introduction

4 Lectures
  • play icon Introduction and Workshop Instructions 04:20 04:20
  • play icon Purpose, Required Background Knowledge 02:01 02:01
  • play icon Purpose of Planning, Planning Metrics, Cycle, Level, Monitoring, and Controlling 10:02 10:02
  • play icon Summary 00:29 00:29

Creating a Project Plan

5 Lectures
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Starting Up and Navigation

8 Lectures
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Creating a New Project

4 Lectures
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Defining Calendars

6 Lectures
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Creating a Primavera Project WBS

4 Lectures
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Adding Activities and Organizing Under the WBS

9 Lectures
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Formatting the Display

5 Lectures
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Adding Relationships

7 Lectures
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Activity Network View

5 Lectures
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Constraints

4 Lectures
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Group, Sort, and Layouts

4 Lectures
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Filters

4 Lectures
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Printing and Reports

8 Lectures
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Scheduling Options and Setting a Baseline

7 Lectures
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Updating an Un-Resourced Schedule

5 Lectures
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User Preferences and Admin Preferences

6 Lectures
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Creating Roles and Resources

5 Lectures
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Assigning Roles, Resources, and Expenses

9 Lectures
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Resource Optimization

7 Lectures
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Updating a Resourced Schedule

7 Lectures
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Other Methods of Organizing Project Data

6 Lectures
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Global Change

5 Lectures
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Managing the Enterprise Environment

6 Lectures
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Multiple Project Scheduling

5 Lectures
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Utilities

6 Lectures
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Earned Value Management with PM

4 Lectures
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Instructor Details

Packt Publishing

Packt Publishing

Packt are an established, trusted, and innovative global technical learning publisher, founded in Birmingham, UK with over eighteen years experience delivering rich premium content from ground-breaking authors and lecturers on a wide range of emerging and established technologies for professional development.

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