Primavera P6 PPM Professional Advanced Features

This course was updated in 2023 and covers P6 Version 8 to 22 and explains the differences between the versions.

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Description

The course was updated to Oracle Primavera P6 Version 22 on 15 February 2023.

This course aims to teach participants:

SCHEDULING OPTIONS AND SETTING A BASELINE

  • Understanding Date Fields

  • Scheduling Options – General Tab Setting the Baseline

USER AND ADMINISTRATION PREFERENCES AND SCHEDULING OPTIONS

  • User Preferences - Undated to Version 22

  • Admin Create Users - Undated to Version 22

  • Admin Preferences  - Undated to Version 22

  • Admin Categories - Undated to Version 22

  • Miscellaneous Defaults - Undated to Version 22

OTHER METHODS OF ORGANIZING PROJECT DATA

  • Understanding Project Breakdown Structures

  • Activity Codes

  • User Defined Fields

  • WBS Category or Project Phase Resource Codes

  • Cost Accounts Owner

  • Activity Attribute

  • Assignment Codes and Role Codes - Undated to Version 22

GLOBAL CHANGE

  • Introducing Global Change

  • The Basic Concepts of Global Change

  • Specifying the Change Statements

  • Examples of Simple Global Changes

  • Selecting the Activities for the Global Change

  • Duration Calculations with Global Change

  • (Any of the following) and (All of the following)

  • Temporary Values Global Change Functions

  • More Advanced Examples of Global Change

MANAGING THE ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT

  • Multiple User Data Display Issues

  • Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

  • Project Portfolios

  • Organizational Breakdown Structure – OBS

  • Users, Security Profiles and Organizational Breakdown Structure

  • Project Codes Filtering, Grouping and Sorting Projects in the Projects Window

  • Project Durations in the Projects Window

  • Why Are Some Data Fields Gray and Cannot Be Edited?

  • Summarizing Projects Job Services

  • Tracking Window

MULTIPLE PROJECT SCHEDULING

  • Multiple Projects in One Primavera Project

  • Multiple P6 Primavera Projects Representing One Project

  • Setting Up Primavera Projects as Sub-projects

  • Refresh Data and Commit Changes

  • Who Has the Project Open?

  • Setting Baselines for Multiple Projects

  • Restoring Baselines for Multiple Projects

UTILITIES

  • Reflection Projects

  • Advanced Scheduling Options

  • Audit Trail Columns

  • Excel Import and Export Tool  - Undated to Version 22

  • Project Import and Export  - Undated to Version 22

  • Check In and Check Out

  • UN/CEFACT XML format

  • Online HTML Help

  • Lean Tasks, Maintain Relationshipss with External Project Assignment Costs and Muli Project Views - Undated to Version 22


What You Will Learn!

  • This course is aimed at teaching students the advanced features of Primavera Project Manager P6 PPM Professional Client up to an intermediate level.
  • - Setting up and administering a database
  • - Import/export
  • - Activity Codes
  • - Custom Data Fields
  • - Global Change

Who Should Attend!

  • Programme Managers and Project Control staff evaluating the software against your organisational requirements.
  • Project schedulers who wish to learn how to use the software to schedule and control projects.
  • Database managers who wish to understand how to set up and administer a database.
  • Experienced project personal who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.