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Baselines and Updating a Project with Primavera P6 PPM

Baselines and Updating a Project with Primavera P6 PPM

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This course was updated in 2024 and covers P6 Version 18 to 23 and explains the differences between the versions.

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What you'll learn

  • This course was updated in 2024 to P6 Version 2023 and covers Baselines and Updating a Project Using Project Manager P6 PPM Professional.
  • You will learn how to baseline a project and display baseline data.
  • It explains in detail the date fields that need to be understood before updating a project in P6.
  • Finally we will cover how to update an unresourced project.

Course Content

Introduction and Workshop Instructions

Introduction and Workshop Instructions

Scheduling Options and Setting a Baseline

15.00 Understanding the Date Fields Part 1
15 – 15.01 Understanding Date Fields Part 1,

Tracking Progress Process,

Understanding Date Fields,

Early Start & Early Finish,

Late Start & Late Finish,

Actual Start & Finish and

Start and Finish

15.01 Understanding the Date Fields Part 2
15.01 Understanding Date Fields Part 2,

Planned Dates,

Planned Dates Issues,

Remaining Early Start & Finish and

Remaining Late Start & Finish

15.02 Schedule Options Part 1
15.02 Schedule Options Part 1

General tab,

Use scheduling options from,

Ignore relationships to and from other projects,

Mark open-ended activities critical,

Use Expected Finish Dates,

Schedule automatically when a change affects dates,

Level resources during scheduling and

Recalculate assignments costs after scheduling.

15.02 Schedule Options Part 2
15.02 Schedule Options Part 2

General tab,

Retained Logic & Progress Override,

Calculate Start-to-Start lag from,

Define critical activities as,

Calculate float based on finish date of,

Compute Total Float As and

Calendar for scheduling Relationship Lag,

15.3-4 Setting Baselines and Limits on Viewing Baseline Data
15.3 Setting the Baseline

15.4 Limitations on Viewing Baseline Data

Workshop 13 – 9 Dec 2024 Start – WBS, LOEs and Setting the Baseline
These files contain the workshop instructions, files and layout you need to compete the student workshops.

Updating an Unresourced Schedule

16 – 16.3 Recording Progress to Updating a Schedule
16.1 Practical Methods of Recording Progress

16.2 Understanding the Concepts

16.3 Updating the Schedule

16.4 -16.7 Progress Spotlight to Comparing Progress
16.4 Progress Spotlight and Update Progress

16.5 Suspend and Resume

16.6 Scheduling the Project

16.7 Comparing Progress with Baseline

16.8 – 16.11 Progress Line Display to Correcive Action
16.8 Progress Line Display on the Gantt Chart

16.9 Check List before Updating a Schedule

16.10 In-Progress Schedule Check List

16.11 Corrective Action

Workshop 14 – 9 Dec 2024 Start – Progressing and Baseline Comparison

Requirements

  • The ability to use a personal computer and understand the fundamentals of the operating system.
  • Experience using application software such as Microsoft Office.
  • An understanding of how projects are planned, scheduled and controlled, including understanding the project management processes applicable to your projects.
  • Access to a computer with Oracle Primavera P6 loaded.

Description

About the Course

This course aims to teach participants how to Baseline and Updating an un-resourced project with Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional,

SCHEDULING OPTIONS AND SETTING A BASELINE

  • Date Fields
  • Scheduling Options – General Tab

UPDATING AN UNRESOURCED SCHEDULE

  • Setting the Baseline
  • Practical Methods of Recording Progress
  • Understanding the Concepts Updating the Schedule
  • Progress Spotlight and Update
  • Progress Suspend and Resume Scheduling the Project
  • Comparing Progress with Baseline
  • Progress Line Display on the Gantt Chart
  • Corrective Action
  • Check List for Updating a Schedule
  • Updating an Unresourced Schedule

The following people should consider attending this course:

  • Programme Managers and Project Control staff evaluating the software against your organisational requirements.
  • Project schedulers who wish to learn how to use the software to schedule and control projects.
  • Database managers who wish to understand how to set up and administer a database.
  • Experienced project personal who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.

Students should have:

  • The ability to use a personal computer and understand the fundamentals of the operating system,
  • Experience using application software such as Microsoft Office and
  • An understanding of how projects are planned, scheduled and controlled, including understanding the project management processes applicable to your projects.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Harris holds an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering obtained in the UK and is a Certified Cost Engineer through AACEI International, a PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and a “Managing Successful Programmes” Registered Practitioner. He has worked in the project controls industry for a number of years and has assisted many companies in a range of industries to set up and run project controls systems. His Melbourne, Australia based company, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, offers project controls consulting and training services world wide with a strong focus on Microsoft Project and Primavera software.

Who this course is for:

  • Programme Managers and Project Control staff evaluating the software against your organisational requirements.
  • Project schedulers who wish to learn how to use the software to schedule and control projects.
  • Database managers who wish to understand how to set up and administer a database.
  • Experienced project personal who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.

Instructor

Paul E Harris

Author & Instructor

  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 1,862 Reviews
  • 8,015 Students
  • 8 Courses
Paul Harris holds an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering obtained in the UK and is a Certified Cost Engineer through AACEI International, a PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner, an Approved PRINCE2 Trainer and a “Managing Successful Programmes” Registered Practitioner. He has worked in the project controls industry for a number of years and has assisted many companies in a range of industries to set up and run project controls systems. His Melbourne, Australia based company, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, offers project controls consulting and training services world wide with a strong focus on Microsoft Project and Primavera software.
(48 customer reviews)

48 reviews for Baselines and Updating a Project with Primavera P6 PPM

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    I expected the course to focus solely about updating progress from beginning to end. The content is scattered and it might not be for me.

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    I have been overlooking the date fields and I just noticed one of the mistakes that I made when I was using a baseline with progress updates.

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    Good refresher course.

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    It was a very detailed course on Progress Updating

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    Terrific course. Had to concentrate hard on the dates fields outcome clear later in the examples.

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