Course 601 - Planning & Scheduling with Primavera Project Planner® (P3®)

Getting started with P3 through hands-on, basic training. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling while learning P3. This three-day course leads you through nine hands-on workshops that create and track an entire project to completion, using the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resources, and costs. Scheduling techniques will be covered.

Learning Outcomes:

• Create a project with activities and resources
• Calculate a schedule

At the completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Define the project and coding structures
• Assign resources and costs to a project
• Add and organize activity data
• Create target schedule
• Develop a project network with precedence relationships
• Enter status data to update a schedule
• Perform schedule calculations
• Store period performance
• Apply constraints to a schedule
• Produce project output
• Customize the project layout

Prerequisite: A working knowledge of Windows™

Course Outline

Day One:

• Fundamentals of Project Management

• Establishing the Project & Coding Structures
• Defining Calendars
• Adding and Organizing Activities

Day Two:

• Relationships
• Scheduling
• Applying Constraints to a Schedule
• Customizing the Layout

Day Three:

• Managing Resources & Costs
• Creating the Target Plan
• Updating the Current Schedule
• Producing Effective Output

Workshops:

• Creating the Activity Codes Dictionary
• Defining Calendars
• Adding Activities
• Adding Relationships
• Calculating a Schedule
• Applying Constraints
• Modifying the Activity Table
• Defining Resources and Cost Accounts
• Assigning Resources and Costs to Activities
• Shortening the Schedule
• Status Your Project

Class Exercises:

• Adding a Project to a Project Group
• Developing the Coding Structure
• Adding the Project Code Values
• Calculating a Schedule Manually
• Creating a Target