Course Objectives:
This course provides a comprehensive study of the phases and steps involved in effectively and
successfully managing a project. From project goal identification, phase design, planning, and
scheduling to managing the processes and controlling costs, resources and the flow of work; until
the delivery of a successful project.  This course is based on Primavera - P3 Project Planner software.
It examines how to use this software for project planning, scheduling, controlling and analysis.

At the end of this course, you will able to:

• Define project elements
• Define Project Manager's role
• Categorize projects and tasks
• Organize and staff the project office and team
• Time scheduling and management
• Develop the project and coding structure
• Develop a project network with precedence relationships
• Perform schedule calculations
• Apply calendars and constraints to a schedule
• Customize the project layout
• Organize activity data
• Assign resources and costs to a project
• Pricing and estimation
• Define a target schedule
• Analyze work breakdown structure
• Record progress on schedules

· Fundamentals of project management

1. What is a project

    Project elements

    Categorizing projects

2. The management cycle
3. Planning & control flowchart

•     Critical Path Method (CPM)
•     Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

4. Project planing overview
5. Planning phase
6. Control phase
7. Project Management Software

- P3 for Windows:

a. Starting P3
b. Initial P3
c. Opening an existing project
d. Displaying the project overview
e. Bar chart display
f. Using help

· Establishing the project and coding structures

1. Pricing and estimating
2. Organizing  and staffing the project team
3. Activity codes
4. Cost accounts
5. Coding structure summary

· Developing the schedule

1. What's an activity
2. Adding activities
3. Activity form
4. Activity relationships

a. finish-to-start with lag
b. finish-to-finish with lag
c. start-to-start with lag
d. start-to-finish

· Scheduling

1. Forward pass
2. Backward pass
3. Backward pass with required finish
4. Float

· Defining calendars and constraints

1. Calendars
2. Assigning calendars to activities
3. Constraints

a. start-no-earlier than
b. finish-no-later-than
c. expected finish
d. additional constraints

· Customizing the layout

1. Splitting the screen
2. Changing data graphically
3. Formatting columns and activity bars
4. Modifying bars

· Organizing the project

1. Organizing activities
2. Organized by system and phase
3. Filters
4. Levels
5. Printing

· Managing resources and costs

1. Resources
2. Costs
3. Resources profiles
4. Organizing by resource or cost account

· Creating the target plan

1. Schedule analysis
2. Targets
3. Restoring the project

· Updating the current schedule

1. Updating projects
2. Tracking progress
3. Hints for updating
4. Suspending an activity

· Resources analysis

1. Resources profiles and tables
2. Organizing activities by resource or cost

· Recording progress

1. Maintaining target plan
2. Updating schedule and resource data

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