Primavera Training - Contractor Course (700)

This course provides Primavera training for Primavera Contractor.  The course is a hands-on approach to the software.  It examines how Primavera Contractor is used in Project Management for project planning, scheduling, control, and analysis.

Profession Development and Continuing Education Units:

• Earns 13 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs
• PMI Program Number - 700 

Audience: New and Intermediate Contractor users

Prerequisite: A working knowledge of Windows

At the completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Create a project
• Assign a calendar to a project
• Organize a project using activity codes
• Add activities and relationships to a project
• 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

Hands-On Workshops and Exercises:

• Creating a project
• Modify calendars
• Defining activity codes
• Adding activities and 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

Class schedule:

1.     Day One

• Introduction to Contractor
• Navigating in Contractor
• Creating a project and work breakdown structure
• Creating activities
• Creating relationships
• Scheduling the project
• Assigning constraints to a project

2.     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