Primavera P6 EPPM Advanced - South Africa

Primavera P6 EPPM Advanced Course Outline

​This training course will explore the following areas:

 Module 1: Implementation of P6 EPPM

• Principles of EPPM
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Goals and Objectives
• Implementation
• Needs Assessment
• Communication

Module 2: Project Structures

• Enterprise Project Structures (EPS)
• Working with the EPS
• Creating Projects
• Calendars
• Adding Activities
• Activity Types
• Activity Durations
• Working with Activities
• Gantt Chart
• Activity Codes
• Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
• WBS Example

Module 3: Relationships and Constraints

• Creating Relationships
• Relationship Types
• Adding Predecessor Relationships
• Adding Successor Relationships
• Viewing Activity Relationships
• Constraints
• Types of Constraints

Module 4: Baselines

• Introduction
• Baselining the Project Plan
• Creating Baselines
• Assigning Baselines
• Copying Baselines
• Updating Baselines

Module 5: ​​Roles and Resources

• Roles and Role Teams
• Creating Roles
• Resources
• Assigning Resources to a Role
• Assigning Roles to a Resource
• Assigning Resources and Roles to Activities
• Removing Roles from Activities
• Assigning a Role Team to a Role
• Assigning Rates to Roles
• High-Level Resource Planning
• What is Bucket Planning?
• Future Period Bucket Planning

Module 6: ​​Viewing Portfolio Performance

• Earned Value Analysis
• Performing Earned Value Analysis
• Calculating Earned Value using Resource Curves
• Updating Progress
• Performance Thresholds

Module 7: Viewing and Analysis Portfolios

• Portfolios
• Creating Portfolios
• Portfolio Scenarios
• Creating Portfolio Views
• Scorecards
• Bubble Charts and Pie Charts
• Histograms
• Portfolio Analysis
• Defining and Prioritising Business Drivers
• Portfolio Analysis – Cost and Resources

Module 8: ​​ Managing Allocation

• Resource Allocation
• Optimising the Project Plan
  • Shortening a Project Schedule
  • Scheduled Dates
  • Analysing Cost
• Capacity Planning

Module 9: ​​ Resource Levelling and Advanced Scheduling

• Scheduling and Resource Management
• Understanding Critical Path Analysis
• Critical Path and P6 EPPM
• Calculating a Schedule
• Automatic Scheduling
• Scheduling a Project
• Schedule Options Dialog Box – Advanced Tab
• Scheduling and Resource Management
• Resource Levelling Options and Priorities
• Definitions of Levelling Priority
• Levelling Resources on Various Activities