Planning & Scheduling Tools and Techniques (Primavera Project Management)

Course Overview

Primavera is the most powerful, robust, and easy-to-use solution for globally prioritizing, planning, managing, and executing projects, programs and portfolios. Candidates will be able to implement what they learned in the primavera class with hands-on real-life projects. Participants will be able to create 2 projects starting from creating a WBS to updating the project. Attending this workshop following the primavera class will be the optimal solution to master this software.

Primavera provides executives with a real-time view of their organization’s project, program, and portfolio performance. It equips managers with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility to effectively and efficiently execute projects, and enables individuals across all levels of an organization to analyze, record, and communicate reliable information and make timely, informed decisions.

Features

Select the right strategic mix of projects.
Assure project, IT, and corporate governance.
Enhance processes and methods.
Improve project team collaboration.
Measure progress toward objectives.
Complete more projects successfully and with the intended payback.

Prerequisites

This course has no prerequisites

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM?

Civil Engineers
Schedulers/Planners/Estimators
Architects Engineers of all disciplines / Drafters / Designers
Team Leaders / Members

Project / Program Managers
Contractors
Foremen & Supervisors
Other individuals whose responsibilities include supporting projects

Primavera P6 is incredible project management software. It allows you to easily plan, manage, monitor, and track your company’s projects, whether they are IT, Civil, Mechanical, or any other types of projects. Primavera P6 is meant for you by planners, planning engineers, schedulers and it is equally beneficial for managers, and any stakeholder involved in a project. Primavera P6 has benefited every industry from aerospace to manufacturing, electronics to IT, Telecom to Civil, and the list goes on.

Primavera P6 has been in use for decades. Its benefits to the organizations are many, including the following:

It reduces the risk of project slippage.
It reduces the risk of project cost overrun.
It helps you easily plan and manage your project activities.
It helps you optimize your project plan, costs, and resource utilization.
It gives you clear visibility of what is going on in the project.
You can forecast costs, schedule.
It gives you project schedule and cost variance information.
You can keep track of project period performance and view past period performances.
It enables organizations to standardize methods of planning their projects, generate reports, for better collaboration and communication.
It helps you break down project activities for better understanding your ability.
You can plan and track budgets and actual costs of resources and other project expenses.

COURSE CONTENT

A full recap of Primavera features and commands
Exercising with 2 projects from real construction projects
Creating groups for brainstorming ideas and experiences
Reading project documents such as BOQ, Drawings, etc.
In each project, the participants will exercise the following steps if applicable