1. Introduction

• Course Introduction
• 1 - 1.7 Introduction

2. Creating a Project Plan FREE CHAPTER

• 2 - 2.3 Understanding P6, Enterprise Project Management and Your Project
• 2.4 Level 1 Planning Without Resources
• 2.5 - 2.7 Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4

3. Starting Up and Navigation

• 3 - 3.2 Starting Up and Projects Window
• 3.3 - 3.5 Opening One or More Projects
• 3.6 Introduction to Layouts
• 3.7 - 3.8 Customizing Toolbars and User Preferences
• 3.9 - 3.18 Remaining Setting Up Options
• Workshop 1 – Navigating Around the Windows

4. Creating a New Project

• 4 - 4.2 Creating a Project
• 4.3 Importing a Project
• 4.4 - 4.6 Setting Up a New Project
• Workshop 2 - Creating Your Project

5. Defining Calendars

• 5 - 5.4 Introduction, Database Default Calendar & Creating Calendars
• 5.5 Resource Calendars
• 5.6 - 5.9 Editing Calendars
• 5.10 - 5.14 Calendar Calculations and Issues
• Workshop 3 – Maintaining the Calendars

6. Creating a Primavera Project WBS

• 6 - 6.2 Introduction to Primavera WBS and Creating and Deleting a WBS Node
• 06 .03-07 WBS Node Separator to Why the WBS is Important
• Workshop 4 – Creating the Work Breakdown Structure

7. Adding Activities and Organizing Under the WBS

• 7 - 7.1 Introduction to Adding Activities and New Activity Defaults Part 1
• 7.1 - 7.3 New Activity Defaults Part 2, Adding Activities and Default Duration
• 7.4 - 7.10 Copying, Renumbering, Elapsed Durations, Bottom Layout and Assigning
• 07.11-15 Assign Activities to a WBS, Reordering, Sorting, Undo & Spell Check
• Workshop 5 – Adding Activities

8. Formatting the Display

• 8 - 8.3.1 Introduction to Formatting, Project Window and Understanding Forms
• 8.3.2 Formatting Bar Issues
• 8.4 - 8.11 Formatting Progress Line, Columns, Rows, Timescale & Attachments
• Workshop 6 – Formatting the Bar Chart

9. Adding Relationships

• 9 - 9.4 Introduction to Adding Relationships and Understanding Relationships
• 9.5 - 9.8 Adding and Removing Relationships and Scheduling the Project
• 9.9 - 9.13 Reviewing, Ladder Scheduling & Milestone Reduced Relationship Types
• Workshop 7 – Adding the Relationships

10. Activity Network View

• 10 - 10.4 Introduction, Adding/Deleting Activities & Formatting
• 10.5 - 10.7 Reorganizing the Activity Network & Critical Path Calculations
• Workshop 8 – Scheduling Calculations and Activity Network View

11. Constraints

• 11 - 11.2 Introduction to Constraints, Assigning Constraints and External Dates
• 11.3 - 11.6 Project Must Finish By Date, Activity Notebook and Schedule Checking
• Workshop 9 – Constraints

12. Group, Sort and Layouts

• 12 - 12.3 Group, Sort and Layouts
• Workshop 10 – Organizing Your Data

13. Filters

• 13.01-03.02 Understanding and Applying a Filter
• 13.03-04 Creating a Filter and Activity Critical Path Visibility
• Workshop 11 – Filters

14. Printing and Reports

• 14.00-01 Printing
• 14.02-03 Reports and Web Publishing
• 14.04-05 Visualizer and Schedule Comparison
• Workshop 12 – Printing

15. Scheduling Options and Setting a Baseline

• 15.01 Understanding the Date Fields Part 1
• 15.01 Understanding the Date Fields Part 2
• 15.02 Schedule Options Part 1
• 15.02 Schedule Options Part 2
• 15.03-04 Setting the Baseline and Limitations on Viewing Baseline Data
• Workshop 13 – WBS, LOEs and Setting the Baseline

16. Updating an Unresourced Schedule

• 16.00-03 Recording Progress to Updating a Schedule
• 16.04-07 Progress Spotlight to Comparing Progress with the Baseline
• 16.08-11 Progress Line Display to Corrective Action
• Workshop 14 – Progressing and Baseline Comparison

17. User Preferences and Admin Preferences

• 17.1 User Preferences Part 1
• 17.1 User Preferences Part 2
• 17.2 Admin Menu - Create Users
• 17.3 Admin Preferences
• 17.4-5 Admin Categories and Miscellaneous Defaults

18. Creating Roles and Resources

• 18.1-2 Understanding Roles and Resources and Creating Roles
• 18.3 Creating Labour Resources
• 18.3 Creating Non-Labour and Material Resources
• Workshop 15 – Adding Resources to the Database

19. Assigning Roles, Resources, and Expenses

• 19.1-3 Resource Calculations to Resource User Preferences
• 19.4 Activity Window Resource Preferences and Defaults
• 19.5-9 Assigning Roles and Resources to Suggested Setup
• Workshop 16 – Assigning Resources and Expenses to Activities

20. Resource Optimization

• 20.1 Reviewing Resources Part 1 Activity Usage Spreadsheet
• 20.1 Reviewing Resources Part 2 Activity Usage Profile
• 20.1 Reviewing Resources Part 3 Resource Usage Spreadsheet
• 20.1 Part 4 Resource Usage Profile and Bucket Planning
• 20.2-20.5 Resource Assignment Window to Resolving Conflicts
• 20.6-20.11 Resource Leveling to Resource Curves
• Workshop 17 – Resource Optimization

21. Updating A Resourced Schedule

• 21.1-21.2 Budget Values, Baseline Values and Current Date
• 21.3-21.4 Information Required & Project Windows Defaults for Updating
• 21.5-21.7 Percent Complete Types, Steps and Updating a Schedule
• 21.8-21.9 Updating Resources and Updating Expenses
• Workshop 18 – Updating a Resourced Schedule

22. Other Methods Of Organizing Project Data

• 22.1-22.2 Project Breakdown Structures and Activity Codes
• 22.3 User Defined Fields
• 22.4-22.6 WBS Category, Resource Codes & Cost Accounts
• 22.7-22.9 Owner Activity, Assignment Codes & Role Codes
• Workshop 19 – Activity Codes and User Defined Fields (UDF)

23. Global Change

• 23.01 – 23.5 Introducing Global Change to Selecting Activities
• 23.6 – 23.10 Duration Calculations, Any & All, Temporary Values & More Advanced Examples
• Workshop 20 – Global Change

24. Managing the Enterprise Environment

• 24.1 - 24.5 Multiple User Display Issues, EPS
• 24.6 - 24.11 Project Codes, Project Window, Summarizing and Job Services
• 24.12 Tracking Window

25. Multiple Project Scheduling

• 25.1 - 25.7 Multiple Project Scheduling

26. Utilities

• 26.1 - 26.3 Reflection Projects, Advanced Scheduling Options & Audit Trail
• 26.4 Excel Import and Export
• 26.5 Project Import and Export Part 1 Introduction and XER Files
• 26.5 Project Import and Export Part 2 P6 XML Files
• 26.5 Project Import and Export Part 3 - Microsoft Project XML File Export
• 26.5 Project Import and Export Part 4 Microsoft Project XML File Import
• 26.06-08 Check In and Check Out, Online Help & Activity Discussion Feature
• 26.9 - 26.12 Lean Tasks may be imported using an XML file, Maintain Relationships

27. Earned Value Management with P6

• 27.1 - 27.7 Earned Value Management with P6