Duration: 1-day
Prerequisites: Prior working knowledge of Primavera P6 Professional or attendance of Ten Six’s Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals 2-day class.
Description
Following on from our Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals class, this Workshop takes students through the most commonly used and requested advanced topics. Focusing on the pragmatic use in the real world of Primavera P6 Professional, this Workshop will extend your knowledge of its capabilities and how these are applied when using the tool. Take your knowledge to the next level and boost your effective use of Primavera P6 Professional and join us at this Workshop.
Course Contents
Lesson 1 – User Preferences
- Understanding User Preferences
- Recommended user preference settings
Lesson 2 – Activity Codes
- What are activity codes
- How to create and manage Global, EPS and Project level activity codes
- User Defined Fields (UDFs)
- Project Codes and Resource Codes
Lesson 3 – Global Change
- What Global Change can do for you
- How to create named Global Change configurations
- Exporting and Importing Global Change configurations
Lesson 4 – Roles
- What are Roles
- How to define Roles
- How to assign Roles to Resources
- How to assign Resources based upon their Role
Lesson 5 – Activity Steps
- What are Activity Steps
- Setting up a P6 Project for Activity Steps
- Assigning Steps to an Activity
- Creating an Activity Step Template
- Driving progress using steps
Lesson 6 – Customizing Gantt Chart Bars
- Understanding the Bars dialog
- Modifying existing Bars
- Create custom Bars based on filters
- Bar labels and other attributes of the Gantt Chart
Lesson 7 – Notebooks, WPs and Docs
- Adding Notebook Topics to P6
- Entering narratives to P6 schedule activities
- How to attach Work Products (WPs) and documents (Docs) to P6 Projects
- How to associate WPs and Docs to schedule activities
Lesson 8 – Issues and Risks
- Entering Issues into your P6 Project
- Entering and managing Risks in your P6 Project
Lesson 9 – User Administration
- Adding Users to the system
- Security Profiles
- The Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
- Assigning user privileges to Projects and WBS elements
Lesson 10 – General Administration
- Admin Preferences
- Admin Categories
Lesson 11 – Advanced Reporting
- Creating tabular reports using the Report Wizard
- Modifying reports using the report Modify feature
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To learn more about this class, please contact Ten Six Consulting (703) 910-2600 or email us at training@tensix.com
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