Oracle Primavera Training

1.1 – Purpose

1.2 – Required Background Knowledge

1.3 – Purpose of Planning

1.4 – Project Planning Metrics

1.5 – Planning Cycle

1.6 – Levels of Planning

1.7 – Monitoring and Controlling a Project

2.1 – Understanding Planning and Scheduling Software

2.2 – Enterprise Project Management

2.3 – Understanding Your Project

2.4 – Level 1 – Planning Without Resources

2.5 – Level 2 – Monitoring Progress Without Resources

2.6 – Level 3 – Scheduling With Resources, Roles & Budgets

2.7 – Level 4 – Monitoring and Controlling a Resourced Schedule

3.1 – Logging In

3.2 – Welcome Form

3.3 – The Home Workspace

3.4 – The Projects Workspace

3.5 – Opening One or More Projects

3.6 – Opening a Portfolio

3.7 – Navigating Around a Project

3.8 – User Preferences – Date and Time Display

3.9 – Right-clicking with the Mouse

3.10 – Accessing Help

3.11 – Application of Options within Forms

3.12 – Closing Down

3.13 – Terminology Differences between Industry Versions

4.1 – File Types

4.2 – Creating a Blank Project

4.3 – Setting Up a New Project

4.4 – Project Architect Wizard and Methodology Manager

4.5 – Importing a Project

4.6 – Copy an Existing Project

4.7 – Project Dates

4.8 – Saving Additional Project and EPS Information

5.1 – Accessing Global and Project Calendars

5.2 – Assigning the Project Default Project Calendar

5.3 – Creating a New Calendar

5.4 – Copying Calendars

5.5 – Renaming a Calendar

5.6 – Deleting a Calendar

5.7 – Resource Calendars

5.8 – Editing Calendar Working Days of an Existing Calendar

5.9 – Adjusting Working Hours

5.10 – Inherit Holidays and Exceptions from a Global Calendar

5.11 – Calculation of Activity Summary Duration in Days

5.12 – Database Default Calendar, WBS and Project Durations

6.1 – Opening and Navigating the WBS Workspace

6.2 – Creating and Deleting a WBS Node

6.3 – WBS Node Separator

6.4 – Work Breakdown Structure Lower Pane Details

6.5 – WBS Categories

6.6 – Why a Primavera WBS is Important

7.1 – New Activity Defaults

7.2 – Adding New Activities

7.3 – Default Activity Duration

7.4 – Copying Activities in Primavera

7.5 – Copying Activities from other Programs

7.6 – Elapsed Durations

7.7 – Finding the Bars in the Gantt Chart

7.8 – Activity Information – Bottom Layout

7.9 – Assigning Calendars to Activities

7.10 – Undo

7.11 – Assigning Activities to a WBS Node

7.12 – Reordering or Sorting Activities

8.1 – Formatting the Project Workspace

8.2 – Understanding Forms

8.3 – Formatting Columns/li>

8.4 – Formatting the Bars

8.5 – Row Height

8.6 – Format Fonts and Font Colors

8.7 – Format Colors, Timescale

8.8 – Inserting Attachments – Text Boxes and Curtain

9.1 – Understanding Relationships, Lags and Leads

9.2 – Formatting the Relationships

9.3 – Adding and Removing Relationships

9.4 – Using the Command Toolbar Buttons to Assign Relationships

9.5 – Dissolving Activities

9.6 – Circular Relationships

9.7 – Scheduling the Project

9.8 – Critical Activities Definition

10.1 – Viewing a Project Using the Activity Network View

10.2 – Adding, Deleting and Dissolving Activities in the Activity Network View

10.3 – Adding, Editing and Deleting Relationships

10.4 – Formatting the Activity Boxes

10.5 – Reorganizing the Activity Network

10.6 – Saving and Opening Activity network Positions

10.7 – Early Date, Late Date and Float Calculations

11.1 – Assigning Constraints

11.2 – Project Must Finish By Date

12.1 – Understanding, Applying a Filter

12.2 – Creating a New Filter

12.3 – Modifying a Filter

13.1 – Group and Sort Activities

13.2 – Understanding Layouts

13.3 – Copying a Layout To and From Another Database

14.1 – Print Preview

14-2 – Page Setup

14.3 – Options Tab

14.4 – Print Form

14.5 – Print Setup Form

14.6 – 4uxReports

15.1 – Understanding Date Fields

15.2 – Setting the Baseline

15.3 – Practical Methods of Recording Progress

15.4 – Understanding the Concepts

15.5 – Updating the Schedule

15.6 – Progress Spotlight

15.7 – Suspend and Resume

15.8 – Scheduling the Project

15-9 – Comparing Progress with Baseline

15.10 – Corrective Action

16.1 – User Preferences

16.2 – Admin Menu

16.3 – Miscellaneous Defaults

16.4 – Admin Preferences

16.5 – Scheduling Options

16.6 – Admin Categories

17.1 – Understanding Resources

17.2 – Creating Roles

17.3 – Creating Resources and the Resources Workspace

17.4 – Editing Resource Calendars

18.1 – Understanding Resource Calculations and Terminology

18.2 – Project Workspace Resource Preferences

18.3 – User Preferences Applicable to Assigning Resources

18.4 – Activity Workspace Resource Preferences and Defaults

18.5 – Assigning and Removing Roles, Resources

18.6 – Expenses

18.7 – Suggested Setup for Creating a Resourced Schedule

19.1 – Reviewing Resource Loading

19.2 – Methods of Resolving Resource Peaks and Conflicts

19.3 – Resource Leveling

19.4 – Resource Leveling Function

19.5 – Resource Shifts

19.6 – Guidelines for Leveling

19.7 – What to Look For if Resources Are Not Leveling

19.8 – Resource Curves

19.9 – Editing the Resource Usage Spreadsheet – Bucket Planning

20.1 – Understanding Budget Values and Baseline Projects

20.2 – Current Data Date

20.3 – Information Required to Update a Resourced Schedule

20.4 – Project Workspace Defaults for Statusing a Resourced Schedule

20.5 – Activity Workspace – Percent Complete Types

20.6 – Using Steps to Calculate Activity Percent Complete

20.7 – Updating the Schedule,Resources and Expenses

20.8- Store Period Performance

21.1 – Understanding Project Breakdown Structures

21.2 – Activity Codes

21.3 – User Defined Fields

21.4 Project Phase or WBS Category

21.5 – Resource Codes

21.6 – Cost Accounts

21.7 – Owner Activity Attribute

21.8 – EPS Level Activity Codes

22.1 – Introducing Global Change

22.2 – The Basic Concepts of Global Change

22.3 – Specifying the Change Statements

22.4 – Examples of Simple Global Changes

22.5 – Selecting the Activities for the Global Change

22.6 – Temporary Values

22.7 – Global Change Function

23.1 – Multiple User Data Display Issues

23.2 – Enterprise Project Structure

23.3 – Portfolios

23.4 – Organizational Breakdown Structure

23.5 – Users, Security Profiles and Organizational Breakdown Structure

23.6 – Project Codes

23.7 – Filtering, Grouping and Sorting Projects in the Projects Workspace

23.8 – Project Durations in the Project Workspace

23.9 – Why Are Some Data Fields Gray and Cannot Be Edited?

24.1 – Multiple Projects in One Primavera Project

24.2 – Multiple Primavera Projects Representing One Project

24.3 – Setting Up Primavera Projects as Sub-projects

24.4 – Refresh Data

24.5 – Who Has the Project Open?

24.6 – Setting Baselines for Multiple Projects

25.1 – Reflection Projects

25.2 – Advanced Scheduling Options

25.3 – Audit Trail Columns

25.4 – Excel Import and Export Tool

25.5 – Project Import and Export

25.6 – Check In & Check Out