Advanced Planning & Scheduling with Primavera P6

Understand the basics of successful project planning & scheduling, and how to plan & design a project schedule

Understand the basics of effective scope planning

Understand some advanced concepts related to Calendars in Primavera P6

Understand the basics of risk management in project planning & scheduling

Understand the basics of project engineering & procurement management

Understand how to develop smart activity IDs and names, identify and list activities in MS Excel, and how to import them in Primavera P6

Understand how to break down the quantities and cost of items using a project ‘Bill of Quantities’

Understand some important concepts related to resources, such as the concept of a crew, crew productivities, man-hours, and machine hours

Understand and use different kinds of published data to estimate crew productivities and develop a resource database

Understand how to estimate activity durations and activity resource requirements

Learn to import cost, resources, and quantities from MS Excel to Primavera P6

Learn how to manage schedule data using ‘Activity Codes’ & ‘Cost Accounts’

Learn to develop an integrated network logic

Learn to connect different phases of a project, such as enabling, engineering, procurement, execution, testing & commissioning, and closing

Learn to interconnect multiple scope elements in a large schedule, and import relationships from MS Excel to Primavera P6

Learn to carry out resource optimization using resource leveling & resource smoothing

Carry out formwork analysis in building construction projects

Understand the concepts of critical path, longest path, multiple float paths, and float ownership

Carry out ‘Project Schedule Assessment’ using DCMA’s guidelines and learn to use different tools for schedule assessment

Develop ‘Schedule Review Checklist’

Address ‘Resource Overallocation’

Develop ‘Cumulative Resource Requirements’, ‘Individual Resource Requirements’, and ‘Stacked Histograms’

Develop project cost requirements. This includes ‘Monthly Cash Flow’, ‘Cost S-Curve’, ‘Early, & Late Cash Flow’, etc.

Develop ‘Key Performance Indicator’ or ‘KPI Charts’ for key material resources

Understand and develop other components of a ‘Planning Package’