Planning and Scheduling in Primavera Project Planner P3

Course Outline

Description: Get started with P3 through hands-on, basic Oracle Primavera training. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling while learning P3. This three-day course leads you through nine hands-on workshops that create and track an entire project to completion, using the three basic elements of project management: schedules, resources and costs. Scheduling techniques will be covered.

Course Length: 3 Days

Targeted Roles: New and intermediate P3 users

Prerequisites: A working knowledge of MS Windows

At the completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Create the activity codes directory
• Define calendars
• Add activities
• Add relationships
• Calculate a schedule
• Apply constraints
• Modify the activity table
• Define resources and cost accounts
• Assign resources and costs to activities
• Shorten the schedule
• Status the project

Course Contents:

1.    Day One

• Fundamentals of project management
• Establish project and coding structures
• Define calendars
• Adding and organizing activities

2.     Day Two

• Relationships
• Scheduling
• Applying constraints to a schedule
• Customizing the layout

3.     Day Three

• Manage resources and costs
• Creating the target plan
• Update the current schedule
• Producing effective output
• Define the project and coding structures
• Add and organize activity data
• Develop a project network with precedence relationships
• Perform schedule calculations
• Apply constraints to a schedule
• Customize the project layout
• Assign resources and costs to a project
• Create a target schedule
• Enter schedule data
• Store period performance data
• Produce project output