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Planning and Scheduling in Primavera Project Planner P3

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.

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:
New and intermediate P3 users
Course Length:
3 days
Prerequisite: A working knowledge of MS Windows
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 24 PDUs and 2.4 CEUs
PMI Program Number – 1471 

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

Exercises:

  • Adding a project to a project group
  • Developing the coding structure
  • Adding the project code values
  • Calculating a schedule by manually creating a target

Class schedule:

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 re3sources and costs to a project
  • Create a target schedule
  • Enter schedule data
  • Store period performance data
  • Produce project output