Course 601 - Planning & Scheduling with P3
Getting started with P3 through hands-on, basic training. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling while learning P3. This three-day course leads you through nine hands-on workshops that create and track an entire project to completion, using the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resources, and costs. Scheduling techniques will be covered.
Audience: New P3 users
Prerequisite: A working knowledge of WindowsTM
Course Outline:
Day One:
- Fundamentals of Project Management
- Establishing the Project & Coding Structures
- Defining Calendars
- Adding and Organizing Activities
Day Two:
- Relationships
- Scheduling
- Applying Constraints to a Schedule
- Customizing the Layout
Day Three:
- Managing Resources & Costs
- Creating the Target Plan
- Updating the Current Schedule
- Producing Effective Output
Workshops:
- Creating the Activity Codes Dictionary
- Defining Calendars
- Adding Activities
- Adding Relationships
- Calculating a Schedule
- Applying Constraints
- Modifying the activity Table
- Defining Resources and Cost Accounts
- Assigning Resources and Costs to Activities
- Shortening the Schedule
- Statusing Your Project
Class Exercises:
- Adding a Project to a Project group
- Developing the Coding Structure
- Adding the Project Code Values
- Calculating a Schedule Manually
- Creating a Target
At the completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Define the project and coding structures
- Add and organize activity data
- Develop a project network with precedence relationships
- Perform schedule calculations
- Apply constraints to a schedule
- Customize the project layout
- Assign resources and costs to a project
- Create a target schedule
- Enter statusing data to update a schedule
- Store period performance data
- Produce project output
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