Scheduling with Oracle Primavera P6

Live online sessions will be held on Sundays beginning May 22nd and ending June 19th. There are 5 sessions in total each approximately 3 hours long. 

Congratulations on your decision to enhance your career with GBRI’s advanced workforce training using Oracle Primavera P6. The $1trillion infrastructure bill passed in Nov 2021 is the largest infusion of federal investment into infrastructure projects in the United States touching nearly every facet of the American economy. With more projects, come new job opportunities across the board including the planning sector.

Qualified project schedulers with P6 training and experience on their resume are in huge demand today. GBRI’s advanced workforce training series using Oracle Primavera P6 is taught by Rajesh Sake,(Acting Director Project Controls MTA), aP6 expert and project controls specialist with more than 17years of industry experience. This live online course series will strengthen your fundamentals in scheduling and enhance your Primavera P6 skills. Students will have access to the recording of the meetings on-demand within 24 hours of live session.

Advanced Training

Scheduling with Oracle Primavera P6 – Level 1  ($1,499) 

Mastering Oracle Primavera P6 – Level 2 – ($499)

 

Other Advanced Training

Time Impact Analysis using Oracle Primavera P6 – $499

Analyzing Claims using Oracle Primavera P6 – $699

 

Course Outline

1. Fundamentals of Project Controls
   1. What is a schedule?
   2. Methods of Scheduling
   3. What is a Critical Path?
   4. What is Total Float?
   5. Identifying a Critical Path
      1. Forward Pass
      2. Backward Pass
      3. Exercise

2. Schedule Development Basics
   1. Project Scope
   2. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
   3. Activities
   4. Relationships and Types
   5. Industry Practice
   6. Scheduling Tools
3. Primavera P6 Overview
   1. Brief History
   2. Current Version
   3. Navigation
4. Project Structures
   1. Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
   2. Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
5. Calendars
   1. Creating Global and Project Calendars
   2. Defining work Hours
6. Project Creation
   1. Adding a Project
   2. Modifying Project Properties and Default Values
   3. Creating a WBS
   4. Adding Activities
   5. Assigning Activity Durations
   6. Adding Relationships
   7. Constraints
   8. Calculating a Schedule
7. Creating Layouts
   1. Columns
   2. Group & Sort
   3. Filters
   4. Timescale
   5. Bars
   6. Saving Layouts
   7. Frequently Used Layouts
8. Printing a Schedule
   1. Page Setup
   2. Options
   3. Saving PDFs
9. Sample Schedule – Exercise
10. Sharing Schedules
    1. Exporting and Importing Schedule files
    2. Exporting and Importing Layouts
11. Activity Codes
    1. Creating Activity Codes
    2. Global and Project Codes
    3. Using Activity Codes
12. Cost-Loading/ Resource-Loading
    1. Methods of Cost-Loading
    2. Expenses
    3. Resources and Types
    4. Defining Resources
    5. Assigning Resources
    6. Resource Layouts
13. Baseline Schedule
    1. Maintain Baselines
    2. Assigning Baselines
    3. Displaying Baseline Information
14. Updating a Schedule
    1. Progress Information
    2. Updating Process
    3. Comparing w/ Baseline
    4. Reviewing Critical Path