How This Course Is Organised

The Oracle Primavera P6 Project Management Essentials Course provides hands-on step-by-step instructions on how to perform a variety of Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project, Resource and Portfolio Management tasks for activities based on real-life work scenarios. The WebLearning hands-on series reduces the time spent investigating what steps are required to perform a task. Because the step-by-step solutions are built for practical real world situations, not only is knowledge gained through valuable hands-on experience, but also the solutions presented may then be used as the foundation for production implementation, dramatically reducing time to deployment.

 

This course is designed to prepare project managers, novice or experienced, with project management skills needed to better manage projects. Built along the project management life cycle, this course covers detailed topics of the intermediate to advanced concepts of project management, portfolio management, resource management, initiating project, planning project, controlling project, executing project, and closing project.

 

Learners will create a project, add activities and relationships, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and over allocated resources, and analyze portfolios. Participants also will learn how to customize the Personal Workspace and the Project Workspace to monitor project progress and communicate with team members.

 

In addition, this course will discuss key Project Management concepts, including Project Initiation and Team Member Web Application, and Workbooks.

 

The course uses P6, Primavera' Web-based project management tool.

 

Prerequisites: WebLearning Project Management Fundamentals or Project Resource Management Foundation.

 

Certification Program:

This course can be applied towards the PMI® PMP® Recertification or the project management specific instruction required for the PMI® PMP® Certification:

 

Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 26 PDUs and 2.6 CEUs

 

Audience

Project Manager

End Users

Functional Implementer

Business Analysts

Team Leaders

 

Objectives

Create a project

Create a Work Breakdown Structure

Add activities

Customize activity views

Create relationships

Schedule the project

Assign constraints

View the Enterprise Project Structure

Optimize the project schedule

Assign roles and resources

Analyze resources and costs

Baseline the project plan

Execute the project

Manage risk

View reports

Manage all Data within P6 Portfolios

Import and Export data

Enter and revise data

 

Topics

Project Management Basics         

Basic Project Management Definitions    

The Project Management Knowledge Areas       

Project

Subproject

Program

Project Management          

Portfolio Management        

Portfolio        

Progressive Elaboration    

Project Management Office (PMO)          

Project Life Cycle    

About the Project Manager

Project Stakeholders

Project Manager’s Value

 

Project Management Processes

Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle

Project Management Process Groups

Mapping Project Process Groups to the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle

Initiating Processes

Initiating Process Group

 

Initiating the Project

Five Steps of Project Initiation

The Business Case

Project Stakeholders

Stakeholder Analysis and Management

Analysing the Stakeholders

 

Planning the Project

Risk Management

The Risk Management Process

Approving the Project Initiation Document

 

Defining the Project

Types of Organizational Structures

Project Charter

Project Definition    

Project Definition Components

Planning Processes

Aims of Planning Processes

 

Developing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

WBS History

Work breakdown structure templates

WBS Design principles

Level of detail

Oracle P6 Enterprise Products

Primavera Project Portfolio Management

Primavera Risk Analysis

Primavera Contract Manager

Primavera Contractor

Primavera Cost Manager

 

Navigating in P6

Using the P6 Navigation Bar

Opening a Project via the Dialog Box

Opening a Project on the EPS Page

Opening Multiple Projects

Displaying the Activities Page

Customizing the Activities Page Toolbar

 

Creating a Project

Creating a Project

Creating a Project from a Template

Copying a Project

Entering a Project Budget

 

Assigning Project Codes

Assigning a Project Notebook Topic

Opening Dependent Projects

Opening a Project Exclusively

 

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

Adding a Child WBS Element

Adding a Sibling WBS Element

Assigning a Responsible Manager to a WBS

 

Adding Activities

Describing Activity Types

Adding a Start Milestone Activity

Adding an Activity

Creating Activity Steps

Assigning an Activity Notebook Topic

Assigning Activity Codes

Creating Activity Code Values

Assigning a Location to an Activity

 

Using Activity Views

Customizing a View

Filtering Data

Grouping and Sorting Data

 

Creating Relationships

Viewing Relationship Types

Creating Relationships in the Gantt Chart

Scheduling a Project

Defining Key Terms

Defining Total Float

Describing Loops and Open Ends

Calculating a Schedule

 

Assigning Constraints

Applying a Must Finish By Date

Constraining an Activity

 

Optimizing the Project Schedule

Analyzing Schedule Dates

Shortening a Project Schedule

 

Using the Team Member Web Application

Updating Tasks in the Team Member Web Application

Configuring Team Member Application Preferences in P6

 

Viewing the Project Workspace

Adding and Removing Portlets

Customizing the Project Workspace

Using the Project Workspace

Customizing Project Workspace Content

Customizing Project Workspace Layout

Using Portlet Controls

Customizing the Project Statistics Portlet

 

Managing Roles and Resources

Assigning a Role

Requesting Resources

Assigning Resources

Checking Resource Availability

Calendars

Defining Work Types

Editing a Project Calendar

Assigning a Calendar to an Activity

 

Baselining the Project Plan

Selecting a Baseline

Adding a Baseline

 

Executing the Project Plan

Describing Methods of Applying Progress

Using Progress Spotlight

Defining the Data Date

Applying Progress to Activities

 

Analyzing the Updated Project

Comparing Dates

Viewing Schedule Performance

Addressing Variances

Importing and Exporting Data

Exporting a Project

Importing a Project

Creating Portfolios

Creating Portfolios Manually

Creating Portfolios by Filter

Viewing Projects in a Portfolio

 

Analyzing Portfolios

Viewing Return on Investment Data

Viewing Portfolio Data on the Gantt Chart

Viewing Portfolio Performance Data

 

Managing Dashboards

Filtering Portlet Data

Displaying a Custom Portlet

Creating a Portfolio View on a Dashboard

Displaying a Portfolio View on a Dashboard

Creating a Dashboard

Managing Dashboards

NOTE: THIS COURSE IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN SELF-STUDY CBT FORMAT OR DISTANCE LEARNING. FEEL FREE TO ASK IF YOU PREFER DISTANCE LEARNING OR CBT. PRICES DIFFER

 

 

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