Creating an Unresourced Project with Oracle Primavera P6 PPM

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 : Introduction

Introduction and Workshop Instructions

Purpose, Required Background Knowledge

Purpose of Planning, Planning Metrics, Cycle, Level, Monitoring, and Controlling

Summary

Chapter 2 : Creating a Project Plan

Introduction

Understanding the Software, Enterprise Project Management, and Your Project

Level 1 – Planning without Resources

Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4

Summary

Chapter 3 : Starting Up and Navigation

Introduction

Logging In, Projects Window, Opening Projects, Displaying Activities, Portfolios

Top and Bottom Panes, User Preferences, and Starting Day of the Week

Admin Preferences, Options, Do Not Ask Me About this Again, Mouse Clicking

Accessing Help

Refresh Data – F5 Key, Commit Changes – F10 Key, Send Project and Closing Down

Summary

Workshop – Navigating Around the Windows

Chapter 4 : Creating a New Project

Introduction

Creating, Copying, Importing, Setting Up a Project

Summary

Workshop - Creating Your Project

Chapter 5 : Defining Calendars

Introduction

Database Default Calendar, Global and Project Calendars, Project Default Calendar

Creating a New Global, Project Calendar and Resource Calendars

Move, Copy, Rename, and Delete a Calendar and Editing Calendars

Summary

Workshop – Maintaining the Calendars

Chapter 6 : Creating a Primavera Project WBS

Introduction

Opening and Navigating the WBS Window, Creating and Deleting a WBS Node

Summary

Workshop – Creating the Work Breakdown Structure

Chapter 7 : Adding Activities and Organizing Under the WBS

Introduction

New Activity Defaults

Adding New Activities, Default Activity Duration, Copying and Renumbering

Elapsed Duration, Finding Bars, Assigning Calendars and WBS, Reordering or Sorting

Undo

Summarizing Activities Using WBS

Spell Check

Summary

Workshop – Adding Activities

Chapter 8 : Formatting the Display

Introduction

Project Window, Understanding Forms, Formatting the Bars, Progress Lines

Columns, Row Height, Timescale, Attachments, Fonts, Colors, and Line Numbers

Summary

Workshop – Formatting the Bar Chart

Chapter 9 : Adding Relationships

Introduction

Constraints, Understanding Relationships, Lags and Leads, and Formatting

Adding and Removing Relationships, Dissolving Activities, Circular Relationships

Scheduling the Project, Reviewing Relationships, Leads and Lags

Relationship Comments New to P6 Version 20

Summary

Workshop – Adding Relationships

Chapter 10 : Activity Network View

Introduction

Viewing a Project Using the Activity Network View, and using the Network View

Early Date, Late Date, and Float Calculations

Summary

Workshop – Scheduling Calculations and Activity Network View

Chapter 11 : Constraints

Introduction

Assigning Constraints, Project Must Finish by Date, Activity Notebook

Summary

Workshop 9 – Constraints