Benefits / Objectives of Training Hands-on Oracle Primavera P6.0 helps participants gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning, scheduling and control as follows; 1.Ensuring project planning, developing work breakdown structure (WBS) and scheduling deliverables are accurate and delivered on-time to the project manager & Management. 2.Ensuring the accuracy of project schedules with respect to providing analytical insight into project risks and providing substantial input into the budget and forecast of capital projects for labor hours/dollars, material quantities/dollars, and financial data. 3.The development, analysis, updating and evaluations of weekly reports. 4.Ensuring work assignments are performed in accordance with Project Management Plan or other controlling policy or best practice. 5.Coordinating weekly/monthly project schedule and manpower update meetings and the distribution of reports in a timely manner. 6.Attending project/management meetings. 7.Monitoring current scheduling processes to insure proper functionality. 8.Preparing, implementing and monitoring scopes of work and preparing Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for control and integrity. 9.Reviewing contractor's schedules consisting of, but not limited to: critical path, cost loading, schedule content, relationships and logic ties, constraints, milestones, and codes i)Resource and cost load schedules, prepare cash flows ii)Validate work completed by others to ensure completeness and accuracy of content. iii)Forecast progress and performance in relation to cost / schedule trends. iv)Assist Project Management in formulating action plans to avoid cost overruns and time delays. v)Retaining historical information for cost and schedule impact analysis for future work. Day 1 Navigating: Introduction to Project Management & the Project Life Cycle Managing Multiple Projects • Creating a Project • Creating a WBS • Adding Activities Day 2: Project Scope & Time Management Documents Library • Relationships • Scheduling • Constraints • Formatting • Roles and Resources Day 3: Project Cost & Human Resource Management Assigning Resources and Costs • Analyzing Resources • Optimizing the Plan • Baselining the Plan • Execution and Control • Reporting • Project Control & Earned Value Management & the S curve. Day 4: Revision