Introduction
This course provides hands-on training for the project management software Primavera. Participants will gain an introduction to project and program management as well as thorough coverage of the concepts of project planning, controlling, and scheduling using Primavera. The course includes hands-on workshops that create and track the entire project to completion.
Course Objectives of Project Management Using Primavera
- Familiarizing with Primavera modules
- Learning how to create a project
- Being able to create a Work Breakdown Structure, add activities, create relationships, and schedule the project
- Understanding how to assign constraints, assign resources, and optimize, execute, and analyze the project plan
- Learning how to create and analyze portfolios
Project Management Using Primavera Software Course Outlines
Day 1
Project Management Intro
- Project Controls department processes & roles overview
- Overview of Scheduler responsibilities
- A high-level review of Primavera, structure, sharing access
- Schedule Levels 1-4 classifications
- Company project types
- Project schedule development
- Portfolio management & Multi Project environment
Day 2
New Project Creation, project details, Company project coding structure
- WBS purpose and development in Primavera
- Activity creation, details, and company activity coding structure
- Steps & step templates
- Activity types
- Scheduling process.
- Critical Path Schedule analysis
- Early, late dates, total float calculations
- Grouping, filters & layouts
Day 3
Roles dictionary, creation, details
- Resources dictionary, creation, details, coding
- Resource Assignments
- Budgets
- Resource & roles analysis and optimization
- Resource leveling
- Baselining
Day 4
Project phases overview
- Project, WBS, Activity Structures
- Progressing the schedule
- Analysis, reporting, and optimization
- Primavera Risk Identification
- Primavera Issue Management
- Primavera Security
Day 5
Discussion & Closing
- Primavera - Global Change
- Planning, Forecasting, What Ifs, Reflections
- Primavera templating
Credits: 5 credit per day
Course Mode: full-time
Provider: Blackbird Training Centre
