Managing Projects in Primavera Contractor
This course provides hands-on training for contractors. It examines how to plan, schedule, control, and analyze projects.
2011 classes are to be posted soon. Please contact our Training Department at 469-467-9221 for more information or to have your name placed on the wait list.
Course level: Basic
Targeted role: Contractors
Course Length: 2 days
Additional audiences: Existing Oracle Primavera Contractor users
Prerequisite: Working knowledge of Windows
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 24 PDUs and 2.4 CEUs
PMI Program Number – 1471
Learning Outcomes:
- Create a project including activities and resources
- Schedule a project, and determine how to effectively optimize a project
At the completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Create a project
- Assign a calendar to a project
- Add activities and relationships to a project
- Organize a project using activity codes
- Perform manual schedule calculations
- Apply constraints to an activity
- Modify activity information
- Track progress on an activity
- Create and customize layouts
- Apply filters to a project
- Customize the appearance of a project for reporting purposes
- Import and export project data
Course Outline:
Day One:
- Introduction
- Navigating
- Creating a project and Work Breakdown Structure
- Creating Activities
- Creating Relationships
- Scheduling the Project
- Assigning Constraints to a Project
Day Two:
- Assigning Constraints to a Project
- Adding Resources to a Project
- Optimizing the Project
- Baselining the Project
- Executing the Project
- Creating Output
- Customizing Projects
Hands on Workshops & Exercises:
- Creating a project
- Modify Calendars
- Adding activities and activity codes
- Defining activity codes
- Creating relationships in an activity
- Modifying a project
- Defining resources to a project
- Assigning resources to an activity
- Optimizing the schedule
- Tracking project progress