Primavera P6 EPPM (Enterprise Project Portfolio Management)

Primavera is an enterprise project portfolio management software. It includes project management, scheduling, risk analysis, opportunity management, resource management, collaboration and control capabilities, and integrates with other enterprise software such as Oracle and SAP’s ERP systems.

Course Outline: 

Navigation

• Primavera P6 overview
• An introduction to Primavera P6
• Dashboards, Portfolios,

Projects and Resources Tabs

• Project Workspaces
• Navigating the Project Pages

Project Structures

•  Enterprise Project Structure

(EPS) overview

• Modifying the EPS
• Organizational Breakdown

Structure (OBS)

Project Creation

• Project creation overview
• Project Calendars
• Working with calendars
• Creating a new project

The Work Breakdown Structure

• Work Breakdown Structure

(WBS) overview

• Defining a WBS
• Modifying the WBS

Adding Activities

• Activities overview
• Describing an Activity and

Its attributes

• Working with Activity Types
• Adding Activities
• Understanding Duration

Types

• Assigning Activity Codes

Relationships and Constraints

•  Relationships overview
•  Relationship Types
•  Creating Relationships
•  Performing a Forward and Backward
•  Apply a Constraint to an Activity
•  Critical Path Method
•  Modifying the Project Duration

Scheduling the Project

•  Scheduling overview
•  Calculating a Schedule
•  Analyzing Schedule Dates
•  Shortening a Project Schedule

Formatting Project Data

•  Formatting overview
•  Grouping
•  Sorting
•  Filtering

Roles and Resources

•  Resources and Roles overview
•  Describing Roles and Resources
•  Assigning Roles to an Activity
•  Assign Rates on Roles
•  Assigning Resources

Baselines

•  Baselines overview
•  Creating a baseline
•  Working with baselines

Progressing the Project

•  Project execution overview
•  Status update methods
•  Using Progress Spotlight
•  Progressing activity status
•  Rescheduling the Project

Reporting and Exporting

•  Export and Importing
• Printing and Print Preview