Primavera is comprehensive, high performance, multi-project planning and control software. It is ideal for project intensive industries. Primavera helps organizations manage just about any type of portfolio. Primavera gives a multitude of ways to organize, filter and sort activities, projects, and resources. It has a rich graphical interface to plan and manage and report on projects.
Primavera deals with project management in all major industry domains like civil, mechanical and electrical. Professionals who are knowledgeable in project management skills and techniques can use Primavera to promote agility and productivity in organizations.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
The course demonstrates the useful applications of software in project management and helps participants develop skills to handle projects using Primavera, covering all basic features of the software available over web and offline.
Participants learn planning, scheduling, and controlling of small and large scale projects; driving down costs, minimizing risks, and delivering results for key stakeholders; selecting the right strategic mix of projects and balancing resource capacity.
The course helps participants design, develop, and maintain detailed resource-loaded schedules; modify project schedules and or integrate multiple project schedules. The course equips them to provide necessary administrative support to project management teams; to set user privileges; to rout contracts and change orders; to reconcile billings and invoices; distribute necessary documents to appropriate teams, among others.
The course teaches concepts such as Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) and Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) that are useful in organizing projects, people, and work.
COURSE CONTENTS:
- Understanding Purpose of Project Management
- Setting up user preferences
- Project Management Concepts
- Planning the Project means
- Scheduling the Project means,
- Monitoring and Controlling the Project means
- Project Planning and Management Fundamentals
- Project Life Cycle – PLC
- Components of Project Management
- How to update the Project when the Project is in Progress
- Creating a New Project
- Creating the Project Codes
- Creating the Activity Codes
- Creating the Activity ID’s
- Saving the Layout & Creating New Layouts
- Defining Various Activities
- Adding all the Activities
- Assigning the Tasks, Milestones
- Successors and Predecessors
- Linking the Activities with 4-types of Relationships including lags
- Scheduling the Project,
- Creating Work Breakdown Structure-WBS
- Creating Calendars as per Project Requirement & Resource Requirement with holidays
- Assigning the Calendars to the Activities
- Assigning the Logical Relationships
- Grouping the Activities as per Requirements
- Sorting the Activities – different methods
- Defining Resources & their Roles
- Assigning the Resources to the Activities
- Working with Cost Accounts,
- Customizing the Layouts,
- Applying Filters to the Activities,
- Customizing Bar-charts with different colors, text, pattern etc..
- Formatting the Columns and Inserting them
- Different Types of Reports
- Activity Reports,
- Schedule Reports,
- Graphical and Tabular Reports,
- Project Reports,
- Resource & Cost Tabular Reports
- Resource Leveling & its importance
- Project Updating during Execution
- Tracking the Project
- Importing the Project
- Exporting the Project to p3 or p6 or ms project or excel…etc,
- Printing Layouts & Reports