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This course provides hands-on training for Primavera's client/server-based solution, leading participants through the entire project life cycle, from planning to execution. Topics include adding activities, assigning resources, and creating a baseline. Participants also gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling.

This course provides hands-on training for Primavera's Web-based solution. Participants will create a project, add activities and relationships, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and over allocated resources, and analyze portfolios.

Learn to use Primavera P6 to complete a wide variety of administrative functions, including how to create users who will access the application and assign their security privileges. You also will learn how to create enterprise data, such as project codes, cost accounts, and financial periods. The course also covers administration topics in P6 Web Access, including User Interface views and calculated user-defined fields.

This course provides in-depth project management training in P6. Topics include updating baselines, importing and exporting project data, and top-down budgeting. Detailed instruction on earned value analysis includes lessons on duration types and how to calculate percent complete. Students also will learn to leverage best practices to create a project using methodologies.

This course provides in-depth resource management training in Primavera P6. The course covers advanced topics in managing resource allocation, future-period bucket planning, and resource leveling.

This course provides hands-on training in P6 Web, focusing on resource management. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of resource management by adding a resource to the enterprise resource pool, planning for resource needs in future projects, staffing resources on current projects, and managing resources to ensure they are fully utilized.

This course covers getting started with P3 through hands-on, basic training. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling while learning P3. The 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: schedule, resources, and costs. Scheduling techniques will be covered.

This course is specially designed for users moving from Primavera Project Planner (P3) to P6. Numerous charts list how P3 fields and functionality map to Primavera 5.0/6.0, enabling users to leverage their existing knowledge of P3 and rapidly adapt to new features in P6. The course begins with navigation, menus, and terminology in P6, and introduces new ways to view layouts and run reports. The course also details how basic tasks in the project management life cycle are executed in P6, including how to create activities, assign and analyze resources, and update the project plan. An appendix at the back of the manual covers how to convert projects from P3 to P6. (Please note that this course is designed for existing users of P3. Those who wish to learn Primavera P6, but are not P3 users, should register for Course 102.)