Primavera P6 Advanced Training Course

Primavera P6 Advanced Training Course

 

Course Overview

The Primavera P6 Advanced Training Course is designed for project team leads and managers with basic P6 knowledge who want to use it to run projects, project coordinators and other team members responsible for critical project aspects that require intervention through the application, professionals who will be involved in P6‑run projects and need to intervene in the project management process, senior management who need to understand P6’s usefulness and the benefits of advanced training, and any professional seeking practical experience and advanced P6 knowledge across construction, engineering, government, infrastructure, and multi‑project environments. A case study on planning and scheduling government housing blocks using Primavera P6 showed that creating an Enterprise Project Structure (EPS), detailed WBS, and logic‑linked schedule in P6 helped identify reasons for delay and improve planning, monitoring, and control for large infrastructure projects, and this course’s coverage of EPS, OBS, WBS, activity networks, and portfolio views enables organizations to achieve similar benefits such as consistent structures, clearer critical paths, and stronger schedule control across complex or multi‑building programs.

 

The curriculum covers implementation strategy (setting goals and business objectives, defining roles and responsibilities, developing strategy, assessing needs, communicating the plan), implementation process (data structures in P6 EPPM including EPS, resource and role hierarchy, WBS, OBS, project/activity/resource codes, calendars, connecting data structures), structuring projects, setting up EPS (overview, configuring preferences, creating project templates), implementing the schedule (creating activities, activity networks, types, views, WBS summaries, grouping and sorting, owners, resources, roles, expenses, duration, constraints, relationships, risks, budgets, activity codes, Gantt charts), managing the schedule (baselines, critical path, schedule preview, resource levelling, actuals, summary data, issues, documents, workflow, risks, team status updates), P6 overview (user experience customization, page printing), managing project portfolios (portfolio views, scenarios, what‑if analysis, capacity planning), reports (usage, scheduling, running, publication), and importing/exporting data to provide comprehensive coverage of EPS configuration, resource levelling, and portfolio optimization.

 

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion, participants will have demonstrated mastery of:

 

Gaining a detailed understanding of each Primavera P6 stage and feature across the project life cycle

Confidently configuring, updating, and controlling projects in Primavera P6 to support real‑world delivery

Using Primavera P6 reports, layouts, and analytics to monitor performance and support decision‑making

Training colleagues and teams to apply Primavera P6 effectively and consistently across projects and portfolios

Leveraging advanced Primavera P6 capabilities to reduce turnaround time and improve schedule reliability and project quality

Configure and maintain enterprise data structures in Primavera P6 (EPS, OBS, WBS, roles, resources, calendars, and codes) so that complex or multi‑project environments follow consistent standards and expose clear critical paths.

Build and control fully logic‑linked schedules with baselines, critical‑path analysis, and resource leveling to identify delay drivers, rebalance workloads, and improve schedule adherence and labor productivity.

Use Primavera P6 portfolio views, what‑if scenarios, and capacity‑planning features to optimize project portfolios, align monthly spend with budgets, and achieve measurable time and cost improvements across multiple projects.

 

Who Should Attend?

This Primavera P6 Advanced Certification Training Course is designed for:

 

Project team leads and managers with basic and fundamental knowledge of Primavera P6 and who would like to use it to run project

Project coordinators and other members of project management team responsible for or involved in some critical aspects of project that may require intervention through application

Other professionals and stakeholders involved in projects or driving projects within their teams or organizations who would be involved in Primavera P6-run project at some point in time and would be required to intervene and continue project management process within application

Senior management of organization who need to understand usefulness of Primavera P6 and see benefit of advanced training for project management using Primavera P6

Any other professional who would like to gain practical experience and advanced knowledge about Primavera P6

Planning engineers

Schedulers

Portfolio managers

PMO professionals

Professionals seeking Primavera P6 advanced certification.

 

Course Outline

The Primavera P6 Advanced Certification course covers the following topics related to advanced use of Primavera P6 Rel. 8.3:

 

Module 1 – Implementation Strategy

Setting goals and business objectives

Defining and understanding roles and responsibilities

Developing an implementation strategy

Assessing needs

Communicating the plan

Aligning Primavera P6 implementation with organizational project management processes

Defining standards for EPS, WBS, calendars, and codes before rollout

Establishing governance for global data structures and user permissions

 

Module 2 – Implementation Process

Data structures in P6 EPPM

Enterprise project structure

Resource and role hierarchy

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Organisational breakdown structure (OBS)

Project, activity, resource codes

Calendars

Connecting data structures

Designing EPS to reflect programs, portfolios, and business units

Building reusable role and resource hierarchies for multi‑project use

Standardizing coding structures to support reporting and portfolio analysis

 

Module 3 – Structuring Projects

Process overview

Setting up OBS and WBS

Defining roles and resources

Establishing project codes

Understanding user-defined fields

Understanding calendars

Creating consistent WBS templates for similar project types

Using user‑defined fields to capture key commercial or contractual data

Configuring project and global calendars for realistic working patterns

 

Module 4 – Setting Up the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

Overview of EPS

Configuring project preferences

Working with/Creating project templates

Grouping projects in EPS for program and portfolio reporting

Setting default preferences for new projects (calendars, settings, layouts)

Using templates to speed setup and enforce scheduling standards

 

Module 5 – Implementing the Schedule

Working with/Creating activities

Understanding the following:

Activity networks

Activity types

Activity views

Activity table

WBS summary activities

Grouping and sorting

Activity owners, resources, roles, feedback, expenses, duration, constraints, issues, notebooks, relationships, risks, budgets, cost accounts, expenses

Establishing activity codes

Working with/Creating Gantt charts

Building complete logic‑linked networks with appropriate relationships and lags

Selecting the right activity types for level of effort, milestones, and tasks

Using activity codes and layouts to analyze critical path and float quickly

 

Module 6 – Managing the Schedule

Baselines

Critical path activities

Schedule preview

Resource levelling

Actuals feature

Summary data

Issue codes/forms

Documents

Workflow

Risks

Team member status updates

Creating and maintaining multiple baselines for comparison and claims

Running schedule calculations and reviewing critical and near‑critical paths

Applying resource leveling options while protecting key milestones and float

 

Module 7 – P6 Overview

User experience customisation

Page printing using P6 print tools

Page printing using web browser

Configuring personal and global layouts, filters, and groupings

Saving and sharing layouts for common reporting needs

Exporting views for management presentations and review meetings

Module 8 – Managing Project Portfolios

Portfolio views and scenarios

What‑if analysis

Capacity planning

Building portfolios to group related projects for analysis and reporting

Running what‑if scenarios on dates, budgets, and priorities

Using capacity planning to balance demand against available resources

 

Module 9 – Reports

Usage

Scheduling

Running

Publication and reporting

Configuring tabular and graphical reports for schedule, cost, and resources

Scheduling automated report runs and email distribution

Aligning P6 reports with organizational KPIs and dashboard needs

 

Module 10 – Importing/Exporting Data

Importing activities

Import template for importing activities

Importing locations

Import template for importing locations

Exporting projects to Excel

Exporting activities to Excel

Exporting risk data and report lists

Using import templates to load large work packages and updates efficiently

Validating imported data to protect coding, calendars, and logic

Leveraging exports for offline analysis, dashboards, and stakeholder reporting

 

Duration:

6 Days Physical

3 Weeks Online

 

Tuition Fee:

N200,000 Online

N300,000 Physical

 

Application form:

N20,000