Advanced Planning & Scheduling with Primavera P6

Learn advanced planning & scheduling concepts, and apply them using Primavera P6 and MS Excel

Created by: CEM Solutions
Construction Engineering and Project Management Consultants

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the basics of successful project planning & scheduling, and how to plan & design a project schedule
• Understand the basics of effective scope planning
• Understand some advanced concepts related to Calendars in Primavera P6
• Understand the basics of risk management in project planning & scheduling
• Understand the basics of project engineering & procurement management
• Understand how to develop smart activity IDs and names, identify and list activities in MS Excel, and how to import them in Primavera P6
• Understand how to break down the quantities and cost of items using a project ‘Bill of Quantities’
• Understand some important concepts related to resources, such as the concept of a crew, crew productivities, man-hours, and machine hours
• Understand and use different kinds of published data to estimate crew productivities and develop a resource database
• Understand how to estimate activity durations and activity resource requirements
• Learn to import cost, resources, and quantities from MS Excel to Primavera P6
• Learn how to manage schedule data using ‘Activity Codes’ & ‘Cost Accounts’
• Learn to develop an integrated network logic
• Learn to connect different phases of a project, such as enabling, engineering, procurement, execution, testing & commissioning, and closing
• Learn to interconnect multiple scope elements in a large schedule, and import relationships from MS Excel to Primavera P6
• Learn to carry out resource optimization using resource leveling & resource smoothing
• Carry out formwork analysis in building construction projects
• Understand the concepts of critical path, longest path, multiple float paths, and float ownership
• Carry out ‘Project Schedule Assessment’ using DCMA’s guidelines and learn to use different tools for schedule assessment
• Develop ‘Schedule Review Checklist’
• Address ‘Resource Overallocation’
• Develop ‘Cumulative Resource Requirements’, ‘Individual Resource Requirements’, and ‘Stacked Histograms’
• Develop project cost requirements. This includes ‘Monthly Cash Flow’, ‘Cost S-Curve’, ‘Early, & Late Cash Flow’, etc.
• Develop ‘Key Performance Indicator’ or ‘KPI Charts’ for key material resources
• Understand and develop other components of a ‘Planning Package’

Requirements

• Basic understanding of Project Scheduling using Primavera P6 version 8 or above

Target audience

• Planners
• Project Managers