find out why it's a great time to be learning primavera p6 and how it can advance your career. check out what you'll be learning in our introduction to primavera p6 professional course.

learn how to download & install primavera p6 professional on your computer. our step-by-step video guide will walk you through all of the steps, from downloading the software from oracle to choosing the right version and creating a database. watch now.

so you're about to dive deep into primavera p6 and learn all of it's workings. well before you do, make sure you get a handle on primavera p6's architecture. it changes the way the way you work with the tool.

primavera p6 has a database at its core and that is one of the major features that makes primavera p6 an enterprise project management tool. so what does that mean to you?  watch the tutorial video to find out. 

in this lesson i'll talk about what's new in the latest version of primavera p6 and also explain how primavera p6's versions work.

in this lesson, we'll take a walk through the primavera p6 interface and understand the key p6 screens. we'll also expand on how project and enterprise data is organized in p6.

as we take our first steps with primavera p6 professional, we'll dive right in to how projects are organized using something called eps or enterprise project structure. then we'll show you the basics of opening a project in primavera p6.

creating a new p6 project will be a breeze after you complete this lesson. we'll cover the key fields that you'll need to know about when creating a blank project.

a project's work breakdown structure is a integral part of any schedule. this lesson reviews the qualities of a good wbs structure and then goes on to demonstrate how effective wbs is in a primavera project.

this video lesson with teach you the steps to add a work breakdown structure to your project in primavera p6 and discuss important wbs fields as well as how to work with the wbs hierarchy.

primavera p6's activity layouts offer a flexible way to create custom screens which have many uses such as establishing common project views for teams or as a template for reports. we'll introduce you to working with activity layouts in this lesson.

to ensure that your screen matches our screen during the course, we're going to rely on a feature of primavera p6 called layouts. layouts allow you to setup a screen and save those settings in p6 and to a .plf file as well. here you'll learn how to import .plf layout files so you can match our screen during the course.

learn to create your first activity layout in primavera p6. this step-by-step lesson will show you the process for customizing your actvities screen and then saving the results as an activity layout.

if you've never imported an xer file before, then this lesson is for you. take a walk through the process of importing a simple xer project file in your p6 project management database. learn about some of the many importing options.

this lesson continues working with xer files and explains the process of exporting a project to an xer file. you will also learn how to export, not just one project, but multiple projects to a single xer file.

learn about adding activities to your primavera p6 project schedule. learn about key activity fields and the process of building a schedule.

linking activities together in p6 is one of the most important steps in building a schedule. learn about the 4 ways to link project activities together to build complex schedules.

this video lesson will walk you through how to add order to your project's activities by adding relationships links in p6. learn tips to save time adding relationships to your schedule.

this hands-on workshop will challenge you to take your first steps in building a project schedule on your own. follow each step and refer to the lessons for help.

in this lesson you will be quizzed on what you've watched in this section.

cpm scheduling stands for critical path methodology and it is the primary method primavera p6 uses to schedule projects. in this introductory lesson we'll explain the concept of "scheduling" and introduce you to the cpm scheduling methodology.

in this comprehensive lesson, michael will show you the inner workings of the critical path method as he walks you through scheduling an example project step by step. learn how the critical path method's forward and backwards pass calculations work and how cpm reveals your project's critical path. knowing cpm scheduling will no doubt make you a better scheduler.

this lesson walks you through how to invoke primavera's scheduler function to perform cpm scheduling. we'll also walk you through the schedule log and show you a few other important features related to scheduling.

this lesson will take you through the workflow of using the scheduler in primavera p6 while you build your project.

learn about the value of total float when there is a project deadline in place. total float becomes a major indicator for whether you will deliver your project on schedule or not.

this lesson will demonstrate how to set a must finish by deadline on your project in p6. we'll also explore a second way to define critical path - which is by longest path and show you how to set your critical path definition in p6.

this lesson start our exploration of calendars in primavera p6 where we will start by focusing on activity calendars. here, we'll walk through how p6 uses activity calendars to schedule work.

calendars in primavera p6 are key to building good project schedules. learn about p6's calendars in this video, creating and editing them.

we'll demonstrate how to assign global and project activity calendars to activities in p6. we'll also cover how to use fill-down to change the calendars of multiple activities. and lastly, we'll explain the concept of a default calendar for a project.

this lessons starts an exploration of activity constraints in p6. we'll explain what constraints are, how they can be used to tweak the scheduler's dates and some best practices as well.

learn the steps to work with activity constraints and applying them to your schedule. you'll understand the options available to you when applying constraints and walk through two examples in a real world project of delaying work and setting a deadline. this lesson will also discuss best practices on using activity constraints throughout a schedule.

this lesson is essential learning in helping you to organize and order your project's activities in p6. the key is understanding how to renumber your project's activities ids and, more importantly, how to do it quickly - not manually. i'll take you through p6's renumbering feature and then show you a quick trick that will save you time and make ordering activities a breeze.

try this challenging workshop. apply the knowledge from this course to see if your schedule will finish on time. follow each step and refer to the lessons in this course for help.

in this lesson you will be quizzed on what you've watched in this section.

what is resource management? primavera p6 not only helps projects stay on time, but it can manage your project's 世界杯时间比赛时间 as well. whether people, equipment or material, p6 can track it. in this intro video to the resource management in primavera p6 course, we'll set you up for what you'll learn and start by introducing the concept of adminstrative and strategic resource management.

this lesson will introduce and explain 3 important resource concepts for working with 世界杯时间比赛时间 in primavera p6.

primavera p6 has considerable power when it comes to resource management on a project or enterprise level. so it is not surprising that you have many options in setting up and configuring 世界杯时间比赛时间 in p6. this video will take you on a tour of the essential configuration fields for 世界杯时间比赛时间 in p6. you'll get a clear understanding of how each field affects resource management and options for how each should be configured.

learn how to add labor 世界杯时间比赛时间 in primavera p6 to your enterprise resource pool. this lesson will take you step-by-step through each key field that should be set up to add labor 世界杯时间比赛时间 to your database.

learn how to add non-labor 世界杯时间比赛时间 in primavera p6 to your enterprise resource pool. this lesson will take you step-by-step through each key field that should be set up to add non-labor 世界杯时间比赛时间 to your primavera database.

learn how to add material 世界杯时间比赛时间 in primavera p6 to your enterprise resource pool. this lesson will take you step-by-step through each key field that should be set up to add materials to your primavera database.

resource codes are an essential feature of primavera p6 for managing 世界杯时间比赛时间 , especially in an enterprise capacity. learn how primavera's resource codes help users classify and categorize 世界杯时间比赛时间 through information tagging.

learn how to administer and add resource codes to help manage your resource pool in primavera p6. see applicable examples of resource codes you could use in your own p6 database.

we all want to resource-load our primavera p6 schedules. in this video lesson, we'll take you through the basics of assigning 世界杯时间比赛时间 to your project's activities and we'll explain the key fields you'll need to know about. we'll also show you how to assign 世界杯时间比赛时间 to multiple activities at the same time, for large projects and to save you time.

sometimes it is very appropriate to assign 世界杯时间比赛时间 at a wbs-level in a primavera p6 schedule. this lesson will teach you about wbs summary activities, how to add them your schedule and how to use them for wbs-level resource loading.

using level of effort in primavera p6, you can assign high-level 世界杯时间比赛时间 to a group of activities. a high-level resource assignment can be easier to manage and is appropriate in many shared resource situations. learn about level of effort in primavera p6.

resource over-allocations occur when a resource or resource team has been assigned more work than they can handle. it happens all the time, so you're going to need to know how to sift through a project to find resource over-allocations and to fix them. thankfully, primavera p6 has some excellent tools to help. you'll learn all about those tools and how to use them in this lesson.

learn 3 ways to resolve resource over-allocations in primavera p6. you'll explore the pros and cons of each method and understand which methods are considered a best practice.

try this challenging workshop and hone your skills. apply the knowledge from this course to see if you can manage 世界杯时间比赛时间 and resource-load a schedule. follow each step and refer to the lessons in this course for help.

in this lesson you will be quizzed on what you've watched in this section.

let's kickstart this primavera p6 course off by exploring the benefits of cost-loading a schedule. why bother? what are the key advantages? we'll also dig into the concepts of top-down planning versus bottom-up planning - 2 accepted methods used in many industries. and we'll explore which one primavera p6 does best and why. not only that, you'll get an overview of the 2 ways to enter planned costs in primavera p6 professional. learn all about these cost management concepts in this video.

we'll start to learn about cost-loading schedules in primavera p6 as we explore costs related to labor, non-labor and material resource costs.

when working with resource costs, you'll need to be familiar with primavera p6's resource rates. in this lesson, you'll learn how to ensure every new resource assigned to your project gets the same default resource rate - an important concept for maintaining consistency of resource rates throughout your project.

learn how to increase resource rates in primavera p6 during the project. we'll walk you through the setup of increasing or decreasing resource rates in primavera p6.

occasionally, you may want to incorporate a special one-time cost or rate in your cost management plan. this lesson will teach you how to override primavera p6's resource rates to incorporate those special circumstances.

expense costs add a versatility to cost management in primavera p6 that resource costs don't offer. learn about using expense costs in primavera p6 to cost-load your project.

learn about cost-loading a schedule by adding expenses in primavera p6. in this course lesson, you'll learn how to add expenses to any activity following a simple process.

in this lesson, we'll take you step-by-step through the process of cost-loading a project in primavera p6. we'll take you through adding both resource and expense costs. get some real practice working with costs in primavera p6.

in this lesson, learn about top-down cost management practices in primavera p6 using special activity types. we'll teach you how to use wbs summary and level of effort activities to help you plan and track high-level costs in your project. these special activity types are versatile and can help you ensure you're capturing all of your costs in primavera p6.

this hands-on workshop will challenge you to put your cost management learning to the test. try the exercises and follow each step and refer to the lessons for help.

in this lesson you will be quizzed on what you've watched in this section.

first things first, what are p6 activity codes? in this lesson, get introduced to primavera p6's powerful activity codes feature - what are they and what can they do for you and your project schedules.

let's make sure we adjust a key setting in primavera p6 that will might get in our way in this activity codes module.

in this video lesson, you will learn how to create customized activity codes and how to assign that activity code right to our schedule in primavera p6.

in part 2, we're continuing to learn how to work with creating & assigning activity codes.

in this lesson, we're learning about taking advantage of our activity codes, by using filtering & grouping to slice & dice our schedule data.

in this video lesson, you will learn about the 3 different types of activity codes in primavera p6 and when you might use each type.

in this lesson, learn about the nuances of copying, importing & exporting projects with activity codes.

in this lesson, we'll come back to the railcar maintenance facility project and spend some time adding activity codes but using a special method.

this hands-on workshop will challenge you to put your activity codes learning to the test. try the exercises on your own in p6. follow each step and refer to the lessons for help.

in this lesson you will be quizzed on what you've watched in this section.

welcome to the module on project baselines in primavera p6. in this lesson, i'll be discussing baselines in terms of construction and engineering projects to help you understand how they fit into the lifecycle of a primavera p6 schedule.

in this lesson we'll jump into p6 and start learning how to creating baselines and display them graphically on the gantt chart.

in this lesson i want to take a minute to explain to you the difference between the project baseline and the user baseline.

primavera p6 has lots of baseline fields and columns. let's dig in to understand all of that baseline data.

learn about how to update a baseline but more importantly you'll learn about restoring baselines as projects.

in this lesson we're going to talk about importing and exporting projects that have baselines associated with them.

in this lesson we're talking about how to evaluate your project against a baseline.

some final thoughts on working with baselines in primavera p6.

this hands-on workshop will challenge you to put your baseline learning to the test. try the exercises on your own in p6 to see if you set and work with project baselines. follow each step and refer to the lessons for help.

in this lesson you will be quizzed on what you've watched in this section.

how often should i progress? what is a forecast? we'll answer these essential questions about progressing in primavera p6 in this video. watch this introductory video lesson to get started with updating and progressing your projects in primavera p6.

what is the data date in p6? it's a key part of the progressing process in primavera p6. watch the lesson video to understand how the data date helps you update and progress your project in p6.

learn about primavera p6's key actual fields to update while progressing your project schedule. this video lesson explains the difference between primavera'a budgeted, actual and remaining fields, and their importance in the statusing process. learn how these key fields relate to each other.

a step-by-step video lesson that teaches you how to build a great activity layout in p6 to make progressing easier. you'll learn which actual fields you should display and how to build and save the layout for use whenever you are progressing a schedule.

what does it mean when we say a project is 50% complete? does it speak to work accomplished or duration elapsed? maybe it's a measure of how much money has been spent to date. watch this lesson to learn about the pitfalls of using percent complete values in progressing. you'll also learn about each of primavera p6's percent complete types.

we're getting warmed up with p6's percent complete types. this lesson gives a short demonstration on the flow of data from percent complete fields like activity % complete and duration % complete. it's important to understand how to change the settings and how the data flows in primavera p6.

take a detailed walk through each of primavera p6's three percent complete types and understand the differences. learn how they will affect the progressing process of a schedule.

rounding out our discussion of primavera p6's percent complete types, we'll explore recommendations on which ones to use in a project.

in this short video lesson learn how to set the same percent complete type for all activities in your project. you'll learn how to set a default type for your p6 project and how to quickly change the type for any existing activities as well.

primavera p6's progress spotlight tool makes the statusing process easier. learn about this great visual tool and how it can make your life easier.

walk through progressing a milestone in primavera p6. this video will show you the steps to properly status a milestone in p6.

you can't run a project successfully without progressing a load of activities. this video will show you the steps to properly progress simple activities in p6 - that is task dependent activities with no 世界杯时间比赛时间 or costs.

here's a quick checklist you can use to help you progress activities in primavera p6. this video will walk you through the steps, but you can view the check list here as well.

you've learnt the basics, now it's time to get into 世界杯时间比赛时间 and costs. this video lesson will teach you how to progress resource and cost-loaded activities in primavera p6. this process is a bit more involved, but it's also more common.

another handy checklist and walk through. quickly review the steps to progress resource and cost-loaded activities in primavera p6.

we can't forget level of effort and wbs summary activities now, can we? so watch and learn about how to progress these special activity types in primavera p6.

sometimes we make mistakes! but don't panic. primavera p6 is very forgiving. in this lesson you'll learn how to remove progress from an activity so you can correct any mistakes. but i know you'll never mistakes....right?

the final step in a progress cycle is to reschedule the project after moving the data date forward. watch and learn about rescheduling and moving the p6 data date to complete a progress cycle on your project.

to wrap-up our progressing course, we'll leave you with some final thoughts on progressing projects in primavera p6 and some additional 世界杯时间比赛时间 on the site to check out.

this hands-on workshop will challenge you to put your progressing in primavera p6 to the test. try the exercises and follow each step and refer to the lessons for help.

in this lesson you will be quizzed on what you've watched in this section.

in this video, you will learn how to find, run, and review built-in reports in primavera p6. it provides a step-by-step guide on locating the available reports, executing them, and analyzing the results for better project management insights.

this video explains how to print reports directly from the current view in primavera p6, making it easy to generate reports based on the specific data and layout you are working with.

in this video, you will learn how to format your pdf reports in primavera p6 before printing, ensuring they are customized and organized for clear presentation and effective reporting.

this video demonstrates how to edit, format, and print resource graphs in primavera p6, allowing you to customize and present resource data clearly and effectively for project reporting and analysis.

this video will guide you through creating a cash flow report by importing data from primavera p6 into excel, helping you effectively analyze and manage project finances.

this video shows how to create an s-curve in excel using the updated program data to visualize project progress and forecast future performance.

in this video, you will learn how to format reports in excel for better presentation, enhancing clarity and making your data more impactful for analysis and decision-making.