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Scheduling Construction and Engineering Projects and Programs with Oracle Primavera P6

Scheduling | Skills

What you will learn

  • Understand the capabilities of the Oracle Primavera applications
  • Be able to develop project schedules and identify the critical path of a schedule
  • Learn how to measure project progress, track progress, update project schedules using Primavera P6
  • Learn how to share scheduling data with other oracle applications.


 

About this Course

A good schedule is critical to the successful management of projects or programs in engineering and construction. A good schedule adheres to standards and industry best practices.  Over the years, companies and organizations have relied on Oracle primavera P6 to plan, schedule and manage different types of engineering and construction projects in building, heavy construction, oil and gas, defense, energy and other government and federal programs and projects.

Oracle Primavera P6 is a complete Enterprise Project Portfolio Management application with a powerful and efficient interface. It completely tracks projects, portfolios, and resources across their full life cycles, capturing all related costs, issues, risks, and performance metrics along the way. It also supports project templates, allowing you to reuse projects in full or in part. It is designed for organizations that need to manage multiple projects simultaneously and support multi-user access across job sites and throughout the entire organization.

In this training, Participants will learn how to develop project schedules using Oracle Primavera P6. They all learn how to manage, update, and analyze project schedules in managing their capital improvement projects, making strategic decisions, and tracking project progress. This is very practical training taught by practitioners and  professionals in the industry. Participants who complete this training should be able to plan and schedule large capital programs.

Prerequisite

Participants must have fundamental training in project scheduling

Technical Requirements

Labtop or desktop with Oracle Primavera P6,

Who Should Attend

This course is for anyone interested in project scheduling. The course teaches how to apply the concepts in scheduling to develop, analyze, and manage project schedules.

  • Project Manager, Project Schedulers, Project Engineers, project supervisors, lead consultants. Project Sponsors, Vice Presidents 
  • Construction and project managers who want a better understanding of planning and scheduling to improve their project performance
  • Graduates interested in careers in project scheduling, project controls or construction management

Course Details

Module 1: Introduction to Oracle Primavera P6

  • Oracle Primavera P6
  • Data Structures in Primavera P6
  • Introduction to Enterprise Project Structure
  • Work Breakdown Structure
  • Downloading and Login

Module 2: Developing Project Schedules

  • Setting up a project in Oracle P6
  • Creating and assigning project codes
  • Creating Activity Codes
  • Adding Activities to a project
  • Relationships in Scheduling
  • Constraints in Scheduling
  • Resources and Roles to Activities

Module 3:  Scheduling Management

  • Creating and assigning Baselines to projects
  • Deleting, Modifying, Updating and Restoring project baseline
  • Updating the schedule
  • The Critical path
  • Managing floats
  • Handling Milestones
  • Scheduling Compression
  • Analyzing Schedule using Multiple Critical Float paths
  • Resources Levelling
  • Scheduling Contingency

Module 4: Customizing Scheduling Layout

  • The Activity Table
  • The Timescale
  • The Gantt Charts
  • The Activity network Layouts
  • Activity Usage Profile
  • Producing and Printing Reports and Layouts

Module 5: Scheduling Best Practices

  • Addressing the 8 Overarching Tenants to Effective Schedule developed by The Program Planning and Scheduling Subcommittee (PPSS
  • Checking the health of Schedule-The DCMA 14 Points.