Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to 

• Understand the risk and what-if analysis of the project
• Understand different approaches to scheduling deadlines
• Understand the different ways of updating the resourced schedule.
• Earned value analysis, performance measurement and reporting.
• Import/export schedules to assist team members with little P6 knowledge
• Manage Global Change routines and user defined fields
• Use advanced reporting techniques

Reflection feature to investigate and make scope changes

• Create reflection "what-if" project file
• Modify the reflection project to investigate scope updates
• Merge approve scope changes back to the original file
• Re-baseline approved modified project

Explore differing approaches to scheduling deadlines

• Separate deadline line item with Lag and track in Total Float column
• Separate deadline item with "Make open-ended activities critical" and track on Gantt chart
• Bars definition static deadline marker and track on Gantt chart

Roles and Resources

• Add roles and resources to a resource database
• Plan initial project schedule with roles
• Assign resource individuals to roles

Earned Value

• Earned value management fundamentals
• Setting up a P6 Project Scheduler for EVM reporting
• Baselining a project for EVM reporting
• Managing project status

Spreadsheet Export and Import

• Export a project to a spreadsheet
• Receive schedule updates from non-P6 users
• Load spreadsheet data into P6
• Conclude the schedule update process

Managing Global Changes

• Efficiently exercise data with the Global Change tool
• Create global change routines for differing subject areas
• Export and import global change routines

Notebook Topics, WPs and Docs

• Adding notebook topics to P6
• Entering notebook narratives to P6 schedule activities
• Attaching Work Product (WPs) and documents (Docs) to P6 Projects
• How to associate WPs and Docs to deliverables and task efforts

Advanced Reporting

• Visualizer and advanced activity table and Gantt chart reporting
• Visualizer and Time Scaled Logic Diagrams (TSLD)
• Creating time distributed tabular reports

User Administration

• Adding Users to the system
• Security profiles
• The Organisational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
• Assigning user privileges to folders, projects and deliverables
• General admin preferences and categories