Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION
2 CREATING A PROJECT PLAN
3 STARTING UP AND NAVIGATION
4 CREATING A NEW PROJECT
5 DEFINING CALENDARS
6 CREATING A PRIMAVERA PROJECT WBS
7 ADDING ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZING UNDER THE WBS
8 FORMATTING THE DISPLAY
9 ADDING RELATIONSHIPS
10 ACTIVITY NETWORK VIEW
11 CONSTRAINTS
12 GROUP, SORT AND LAYOUTS
13 FILTERS
14 PRINTING AND REPORTS
15 SCHEDULING OPTIONS AND SETTING A BASELINE
16 UPDATING AN UNRESOURCED SCHEDULE
17 USER AND ADMINISTRATION PREFERENCES AND SCHEDULING OPTIONS
18 CREATING ROLES AND RESOURCES
19 ASSIGNING ROLES, RESOURCES AND EXPENSES
20 RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION
21 UPDATING A RESOURCED SCHEDULE
22 OTHER METHODS OF ORGANIZING PROJECT DATA
23 GLOBAL CHANGE
24 MANAGING THE ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT
25 MULTIPLE PROJECT SCHEDULING
26 UTILITIES
27 EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT WITH P6
28 WHAT IS NEW IN P6 VERSIONS 8.1 to 15.2
29 TOPICS NOT COVERED IN THIS PUBLICATION
30 INDEX

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.

Reviews

Reviewer: Tom Grant MSc BSc, Principal, TAG Consultancy, Review: The P6 PPM Manual by Paul Harris is a well-crafted guide into the concepts and functionality of Oracle Primavera P6. The manual contains 30 chapters of essential information that P6 users will require to get the most out of this complex scheduling tool. It makes the critical distinction between planning and tracking a non-resourced and a resourced plan and explains the necessary processes in a clear and concise manner.Most chapters are reinforced with a workshop and this gives students the all-important "hands on" time with the software. I believe that this is the best way to understand and learn a new software tool and the workshop data is practical and relevant. The P6 topics are introduced in a logical manner that follows the PMBOK Project Lifecycle stages. Once the P6 interface is understood, the process of building a project is undertaken. The main deliverables are defined in the WBS, the work is broken down into activities, logic is added, calendars are defined and scheduling is undertaken. There are a considerable number of preferences and settings that influence the scheduling calculations and all are explained in a timely and precise fashion. I have been teaching Primavera scheduling to a wide range of industries for over 10 years and I believe that Paul's training material offers the best combination of functional and practical training, delivered in a style that is easy to comprehend.