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Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Course

Learn Primavera P6 basics: EPS, WBS, activities, relationships, resources, baselines and reports.

Your roadmap — from admission to certificate

  1. Free counselling

    Talk to our counsellor — choose the right course, batch time and mode.

  2. Admission

    Join at a CADD centre near you or online. You get your student login and ID card.

  3. Learn step by step

    40 Hours of hands-on Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals classes — in the classroom or live online.

    IntroductionGetting started project management moduleUnderstanding and Setup User Preferences SettingWorking with Projects and PortfoliosWorking with EPS, OBS and WBSCalendarsWorking with ActivitiesResources, Roles and Resource CurvesManaging Project Default DataDefining Project, Resource, and Activity Codes
  4. Practice & project

    Exercises in every class and a final project, checked by your trainer.

  5. Course completion certificate + completion badge

    Finish the course and get your course-completion certificate and a digital completion badge with your name.

    Sample course-completion certificate — Quantity Surveyor / Billing Engineer – Professional Career Program
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    Course
    Quantity Surveyor / Billing Engineer – Professional Career Program
    Issued by
    CADD Training Cetre
    Training
    Classroom or live online
    How to earn
    Complete the course and its project
    With your name and year · its own verify link · “Add to profile” on LinkedIn
  6. Certification exam

    Take the certification exam: a theory test and a practical task — at the centre or online.

  7. Certified certificate + marksheet

    Pass the exam and get the certified certificate with your marksheet. Anyone can check it online with its QR code.

  8. Certified badge

    Your certified badge — add it to LinkedIn and share it anywhere; it opens its own verify page.

    Certified badge — Quantity Surveyor / Billing Engineer – Professional Career Program
    Certified badge
    Course
    Quantity Surveyor / Billing Engineer – Professional Career Program
    Issued by
    CADD Training Cetre
    Training
    Classroom or live online
    How to earn
    Pass the certification exam
    You also get
    Certified certificate + marksheet
    With your name and year · its own verify link · “Add to profile” on LinkedIn
  9. Make your CV & apply for jobs

    Make your CV in your student panel (Career → My CV) — your course, certificates and projects are added for you. Send it as a link with a preview picture, and apply to jobs and Hire Me requests from companies.

    Sample CV

About the Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals course

Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals

Learn online or offline  Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals from CADD Training Centre. Learn to plan and execute a project with this Oracle Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Training courses.

You will be able to

  • Navigate Primavera P6 Professional and set up an Enterprise Project Structure
  • Create projects, calendars and a Work Breakdown Structure
  • Add activities, durations and relationships and schedule the project
  • Read the critical path, total float and Gantt chart
  • Assign roles, resources and costs to activities
  • Set baselines, update progress and compare actual against planned
  • Create layouts, filters and reports for project reviews

Who it is for

  • Civil, mechanical and electrical engineers in project execution
  • Planning and scheduling engineers starting with Primavera
  • Project management and MBA students
  • Site engineers who want to move into planning roles

What you need

  • Basic computer skills and familiarity with Excel
  • Understanding of how projects are executed is helpful
  • A Windows PC for live online classes

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Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Syllabus

18 chapters · 156 topics
01 Introduction 7 topics
  1. Introduction of Primavera P6 Professional
  2. Primavera Release History
  3. What is Project and Project Management?
  4. Project Management Life Cycle (Planning, Controlling, and Managing Projects)
  5. Why Use Project Portfolio Management?
  6. Understanding the Your Role in the Organization
  7. Understanding the Project Management Process Overview
02 Getting started project management module 6 topics
  1. Primavera P6: Downloading, Installing and Configuring the Database
  2. Set Language, Industry Terminology, and Custom Currencies
  3. Launching & Understanding the Primavera P6 Professional Workspace
  4. Customizing the Toolbars & Managing the P6 workspace
  5. Customizing Menus Bars in Primavera P6
  6. Reset the toolbars and menus to factory defaults in Primavera P6
03 Understanding and Setup User Preferences Setting 11 topics
  1. Define user preferences
  2. Formatting Time Units
  3. Formatting Dates
  4. Setting Currency Symbol
  5. Setting Mail Preferences
  6. Setting Startup, Group, Sort, and Column Default
  7. Changing your Password
  8. Setting Profile and Spreadsheet Data Options
  9. Setting Calculation Options for Resource and Role
  10. Selecting Startup Filters
  11. Understanding the Wizard
04 Working with Projects and Portfolios 9 topics
  1. Creating a Project
  2. Opening and Closing a Project
  3. Copying, Pasting and Deleting a project
  4. Refresh data and Updating data to the database
  5. Understanding "what-if" scenarios and Set-up Default project
  6. Creating, Renaming and Deleting a portfolio
  7. Adding Projects to a Portfolio and Removing Projects from a Portfolio
  8. Adding Users to a portfolio
  9. Change the Current Portfolio and Viewing Portfolio Details
05 Working with EPS, OBS and WBS 14 topics
  1. Understanding and Defining Enterprise Project Structure
  2. Organizing the EPS structure
  3. Adding/Deleting a project to the EPS hierarchy
  4. Copy an EPS node or project
  5. Understanding, Adding & Editing Organizational breakdown structure (OBS)
  6. Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete an OBS element
  7. Viewing/Changing the OBS/OBS Chart Display & OBS Chart Information
  8. Move around the OBS chart
  9. Understanding WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) and Top-Down Planning
  10. Adding, Editing and Deleting a WBS element
  11. Understanding & Assigning WBS weighted milestones
  12. Understanding and Determining a WBS element's status
  13. Cut, Copy and paste a WBS element
  14. Viewing/Changing the WBS, Chart/Table display and Moving WBS chart
06 Calendars 8 topics
  1. Defining default hours per time period in calendars
  2. Understanding the Global vs. Project vs. Resourse Calendars
  3. Creating and Deleting a Project Calendar
  4. Editing and Viewing Project Calendar; Assignments
  5. Creating, Editing and Setting Default a global calendar
  6. Viewing Global Calendar Assignments and Deleting
  7. Creating/Editing/Deleting a shared/Personal resource calendar
  8. View resource calendar assignments & Convert calendar to ...
07 Working with Activities 16 topics
  1. Understanding & Adding the Activity
  2. Understanding the Activity dates
  3. Enter Activity Durations, Activity Start and Finish dates
  4. Understanding & Defining the Activity Types
  5. Understanding & Defining the Activity Duration Types
  6. Deleting an Activity & Defining Milestones
  7. Cut, Copy and Paste an Activities
  8. Understanding the Activity Relationships and Types
  9. Adding Relationships B/w Activities (in depth-look)
  10. Dissolving an Activity
  11. Assigning a Calendar to an Activity
  12. Adding Lead and Lag Duration to an Activity
  13. Changing/Removing Relationships from Predecessor & Successor TAB
  14. Editing/Deleting Relationships in the Gantt Chart & Activity Network
  15. Renumber activity IDs in the Activity Table
  16. Viewing activity relationships
08 Resources, Roles and Resource Curves 11 topics
  1. Understanding the Resources
  2. Understanding the Resource Security
  3. Adding resources
  4. Creating & Assigning Shared/Personal Resource Calendars to Resources
  5. Display, Edit, Cut, Copy Paste and Delete a Resources
  6. Changing the Resource Type for Resources
  7. Defining, Deleting & Specifying the Unit of Measure for Material Resources
  8. Understanding & Adding Roles
  9. Viewing, Editing and Deleting Roles
  10. Changing the Proficiency of a Role
  11. Defining price/unit rates and Role Limits Over Time
09 Managing Project Default Data 10 topics
  1. Managing Projects using the EPS & Defining Project Details
  2. Entering Project Dates & Specify a Fiscal Start Month
  3. Change the Project Name & ID
  4. Changing the Project's Status
  5. Changing the Project Leveling Priority
  6. Setting-up Activity ID options
  7. Set the Default Price for Activities & Rate Type for Resource Assignments
  8. Set the Project Default Activity Type & Activity Duration Type
  9. Set the Project Default Activity Percent Complete Type & Activity Calendar
  10. Set the Default Cost Account & the Float Time for Identifying Critical Activities
10 Defining Project, Resource, and Activity Codes 9 topics
  1. Understanding & Creating Project Codes and Values
  2. Editing, Deleting & Assign Project Codes and Values
  3. Understanding & Creating Resource Codes and Values
  4. Editing, Deleting & Assign Resource Codes and Values
  5. Understanding the Activity codes and values
  6. Defining Global Activity Codes, Values and Values Colors
  7. Defining Project Activity Codes, Values and Values Colors
  8. Defining EPS-level Activity Codes, Values and Values Colors
  9. Assigning/Changing/Removing Activity Codes & Values to/From Activities
11 Assigning Resources, Roles and Resource Curves 9 topics
  1. Assigning and Removing Resources to Activities
  2. Assigning resources to activities by role
  3. Associate a Primary Resource with an Activity
  4. Replacing Resources Assigned to Activities
  5. Assigning a Rate Type to a Resource Assignment
  6. Choosing the Rate Source for an Assignment
  7. Changing the Resource's Role Assignments for an Activity
  8. Assigning Roles to Activities
  9. Assign Roles to Resources from the Resources Window and Roles Dialog Box
12 Defining Custom Fields, Grouping & Sorting, Filtering, and Summarizing Data 3 topics
  1. Grouping & Sorting Data in Depth Look
  2. Filtering Data in Depth Look
  3. Summarizing Data
13 Customizing Layouts 7 topics
  1. Preparing, Saving, Opening & Deleting a Layout
  2. Using Timescaled Layout Options
  3. Customizing Detail Window & Adding Line No.
  4. Customizing Activity Table - in Depth Look
  5. Customizing The Gantt Chart - in Depth Look
  6. Customizing The Activity Network - in Depth Look
  7. Understanding and Using Trace Logic Options
14 Adding Activity Steps/=Template & Assigning Templates & Notebooks 7 topics
  1. Understanding & Adding Activity Steps
  2. Updating & Removing Activity Steps
  3. Adding Weights to Steps
  4. Understanding & Creating Activity Step Templates
  5. Convert Steps into an Activity Step Template
  6. Assign Activity Step Templates to Activities
  7. Assigning/Removing Notebooks to/from Activities
15 Entering Cost Information and Expenses for an Activities 7 topics
  1. Understanding and Adding Expenses
  2. Assigning Expense Categories & Customize Expense Columns
  3. Specifying an Accrual Type, Entering cost information & Changing an expense's activity assignment
  4. Cuting, Copying, Pasting and Deleting Expenses
  5. Understanding and Creating a Cost Account Hierarchy
  6. Cuting, Copying, Pasting and Deleting Cost Account
  7. Seting the Project Default & Editing a Cost account
16 Managing Primavera Projects - I 9 topics
  1. Working with Budgets, Funding Sources and Spending Amounts
  2. Working with Baseline in Primavera
  3. Working with Updating Projects Schedule
  4. Working with Creating and Using Reflections
  5. Understanding the Scheduling Projects and "Nondriving" Resource Assignments
  6. Understanding and Assigning the Types of constraints
  7. Understanding the CPM (Critical Path Method - Manually)
  8. Working with CPM (Critical Path Method) in Primavera
  9. Working with Scheduling Projects
17 Tracking Primavera Projects 9 topics
  1. Understanding the Tracking, Tracking Layouts and Types of Tracking Layouts
  2. Saving, Exporting, Importing and Deleting the Tracking Layouts
  3. Managing the Tracking Layouts
  4. Working with Project Table layouts
  5. Working with Project Bar Chart Layouts
  6. Working with Project Gantt/Profiles
  7. Working with Resource Analysis layouts
  8. Working with the Gantt Chart
  9. Working with the Profile and Spreadsheet
18 Managing Primavera Projects - II 4 topics
  1. Adding and Assigning Issues
  2. Adding and Assigning Thresholds
  3. Adding and Assigning Risks (P6 Professional Only)
  4. Adding and Assigning Work Products and Documents

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Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals course — FAQ

What is Primavera P6 used for?

Primavera P6 Professional is Oracle's project planning and scheduling software. It is used to plan activities, manage resources and costs, and track progress on construction, infrastructure, energy and industrial projects.

Who can learn Primavera P6 Fundamentals?

Engineers from civil, mechanical and electrical streams, planning staff, project management students and site engineers can join. Basic computer and Excel skills are enough.

How long is the Primavera P6 Fundamentals course?

The Fundamentals course is 40 hours long and takes you from project setup to scheduling, resources, baselines, progress updates and reports.

Can I learn Primavera P6 online?

Yes. Join a classroom batch at a CADD Training Centre or live online classes, where you build and schedule a sample project with the trainer.

Will I get a certificate in Primavera P6?

Yes. Primavera P6 Fundamentals learners receive a CADD Training Centre certificate, which planning managers can confirm online using its QR code or verification code.

What jobs need Primavera P6 skills?

Primavera is used by planning engineers, project schedulers, project controls staff and project coordinators in construction, oil and gas, power and infrastructure companies.

What is the difference between Primavera P6 and MS Project?

Both schedule projects. Primavera P6 handles large, multi-project and enterprise environments with EPS and detailed resource control, while MS Project is common for smaller, single projects.

What should I learn after Primavera P6 Fundamentals?

The Primavera P6 Professional Advanced course is the next step, covering resource levelling, earned value, global changes, multiple baselines and advanced reporting.

More questions? Ask our counsellor or read the general FAQ.

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