Primavera P6 Project Planning & Scheduling Training Course

The Primavera P6 Project Planning & Scheduling Training Course equips project planners, schedulers, project managers, and project control professionals with the practical skills needed to build, manage, update, and report on professional project schedules using Oracle Primavera P6. In government entities, ministries, public authorities, utilities, construction, engineering, energy, and infrastructure organizations, and large corporations delivering capital and operational projects, a reliable schedule is essential for planning resources, controlling time and cost, coordinating contractors, managing change, and supporting claims and decision making. Many schedules fail to provide the control they are intended to deliver. Work breakdown structures may be poorly structured, activities may be too long or too vague, logic may be incomplete with open ends and excessive constraints, calendars may not reflect actual working conditions, and resources and costs may not be loaded. Schedules may not be baselined properly, progress updates may be inconsistent, and reports may not show the information decision makers need. As a result, the critical path is unreliable, delays are detected late, and the schedule loses credibility with management, clients, and contractors. This hands-on course combines planning and scheduling principles with practical, step-by-step use of Primavera P6. Participants learn core scheduling concepts, including work breakdown structures, the critical path method, total and free float, calendars, and constraints, and how these are applied in P6. The program covers the P6 data structure, including the enterprise project structure, organizational breakdown structure, projects, and work breakdown structure, and guides participants through creating projects, defining calendars, adding activities and milestones, assigning durations, building logic with relationships and lags, scheduling the project, and analyzing the critical path. Participants then learn to use activity codes, filters, grouping, sorting, and layouts, define and assign resources and roles, load costs and expenses, analyze resource usage, and apply resource leveling. The course also covers establishing baselines, updating progress with actual dates, remaining durations, and percent complete types, comparing progress against the baseline, basic earned value analysis in P6, schedule quality checks using recognized assessment criteria, what-if analysis, multi-project reporting, importing and exporting schedules, and producing professional reports. This course builds practical software and scheduling skills and is not an official Oracle certification program. The course is delivered through intensive hands-on exercises in which each participant builds, resources, baselines, updates, and reports on a complete case study project in Primavera P6. Participants leave with a fully developed practice schedule, a schedule development checklist, a schedule quality checklist, standard layouts and filters, a progress update procedure, and a schedule reporting template.