• Master fundamental project management skills, concepts and techniques

• Link project goals and objectives to clear, compelling stakeholder needs

• Develop work breakdown structures

• Set realistic, measurable objectives and ensure positive results

• Estimate project costs and schedules using simple, proven techniques

• Establish a dependable project control and monitoring system

· Introduction to Primavera

· Project Management life cycle

· Network planning

o Critical path method (CPM)

o Schedule calculations

· Navigation

· Setting up the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

· Setting up the Organizational breakdown Structure (OBS)

· Creating a new Project

· Work breakdown structure (WBS)

o Creating WBS Hierarchy

o Adding WBS Elements and Assigning Properties

· Working with Activities

o Activity Types

o Adding Activities

o Establishing Relationships

o Project Scheduling

· Constraints Types

· Working with Calendars

o Working with Calendars (Global, Project

o Create new project Calendars

· Establishing Activity Codes

o Creating Activity Codes and Values

o Assigning Codes to activities

· Maintaining a Project’s Document Library

o Adding/Deleting Work Products And Documents

o Assigning Work Products and Documents To Activities

· Working with Layouts

o Creating, Opening, and Saving Layouts

· Grouping, Sorting Data

· Filtering Data

· Customizing Layouts

o Modifying Columns, Adjusting the Timescale, Formatting Gantt Charts

· Produce bar chart reports

· Produce schedule reports

· Defining Resources and Roles

o Resources Overview

o Viewing and Adding Resources

· Working with Cost Accounts and Project Expenses

o Setting Up a Cost Account Structure

o Adding Expenses and Entering Cost Information

· Analyzing Resources and Costs

· Producing Resource Usage Profile

· Producing Resource Usage spreadsheet

· Updating process

· Managing Baselines

o Creating and Maintaining Baselines

o Assigning Baselines to Projects

· Updating

o Choosing a Method of Updating

o Record project progress

· Scheduling Projects

· Current vs. Baseline comparison report

· Workshops:

o Creating a Project

o Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

o Adding Activities

o Scheduling the Project

o Working with Calendars

o Activity Codes

o Producing Bar Chart Report

o Assigning Resource and Cost

o Analyzing Resource and Cost

o Updating the Schedule