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Course 601 - Planning & Scheduling with P3
Course Description in pdf format

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. 

Learning Outcomes:
- Create a project with activities & resources
- Calculate a schedule

Prerequisite:  A working knowledge of Windows

Course Length:  3 days

At the completion of this course the student will be able to:

  • Define the project and coding structures

  • Assign resources and costs to a project

  • Add and organize activity data

  • Create target schedule

  • Develop a project network with precedence relationships

  • Enter statusing data to update a schedule

  • Perform schedule calculations

  • Store period performance

  • Apply constraints to a schedule

  • Produce project output

  • Customize the project layout

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


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