This document provides information about an advanced online training course for the Primavera P6 Professional scheduling software. The course is intended for users who have completed fundamentals and best practices training. It covers more advanced topics like what-if analysis, global changes, customizing reports, and earned value management. The course contents are listed and include topics like user preferences, codes, reflections, administration and more. Users can earn PDUs for maintaining PMP certification by taking the course.

1. Take your Primavera P6 Professional expertise to the next level
Our Primavera P6 Professional Advanced Topics course is a the final course in our
Primavera P6 Professional learning path, This class follows on from our Primavera
P6 Professional Fundamentals and our Scheduling Best Practice Guidelines
for Primavera P6 online video training courses. Take your understanding of
Primavera P6 to the next level with this in-depth look at the more advanced
features in common use by top P6 schedulers.
This is an ideal course to take after you have completed our Primavera P6
Professional Fundamentals and our Scheduling Best Practice Guidelines
for Primavera P6 online training courses, or indeed if you have attended one of our
public or on-site courses and want to learn more.
Imagine being able to better manage change orders using what-if reflections, or
saving yourself hours of work by making changes to the data using the Global
Change feature. How about knowing how to create ad-hoc reports when the boss
ambushes you with a short notice requirement. It's all at your fingertips with our
new Primavera P6 Professional Advanced Topics training course.
Primavera P6 Professional Advanced Topics Contents
User Preferences - learn how to see data the way you want to see it. Control date, duration and time
formats, currency, application settings, resource analysis methods, calculations and much more using
the User Preferences feature.
Codes and User Defined Fields - learn the purpose of activity, project and resources codes, how to
create them and how to use them to support the unique data and reporting challenges presented by
your company's project portfolio.
Global Change - make rapid changes to predetermined data items in your project using the Global
Change feature. This tool can save you countless hours of making tedious manual adjustments on
your projects activity and resource assignments.
Roles - understand how Primavera P6 provides roles as an additional dimension to resources in the
system. Roles can play an important part in the process of resource management, reporting and
capacity planning when utilized as part of the resource definition.

2. Activity Steps - get a clear picture of what steps are, how they work and why they can be an
invaluable resource when you are trying to achieve very discrete and well documented status updates
for a schedule.
Customizing the Gantt Chart - manipulate the Gantt chart bars in ways you probably never thought
possible using the Bars dialog and some basic formatting and filtering. Unlock this amazing an
underutilized reporting capability in Primavera P6 Professional.
Notebooks, Work products (WPs) and Documents - the basics need of document management
can be met with these features allowing you to associate key project documents with elements of the
Primavera P6 schedule.
Reflections - dynamic what-if working is revealed in this lesson. Learn how to create reflections and
perform what-if analysis before committing the changes back to the original project schedule - or not,
as the case may be.
User Administration - if you have any administrative roles in Primavera P6, then this lesson gets into
details about how to add new users to the system, give them the correct privileges and project access
using the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) web client. It also looks at the equivalent
topics and tools in the P6 Professional administrative areas.
General Administration - this lesson throws a wider net over the topic of administration and explores
the use of P6 EPPM web client and the particulars of the Enterprise Data administration pages. It also
looks at the equivalent topics in P6 Professional.
Earned Value in P6 - you can perform basic earned value management in Primavera P6 by
observing only a few basic guidelines to make it work and give you useful metrics. Earned value can
give you some very clear early warning of underperforming areas of your projects - if you know how to
set it up correctly.
Global Calendars - this lesson shows you how to create global calendars that can be used by
multiple projects in the Primavera P6 system.
Earn Valuable PDUs To Maintain Your PMP Certification
Ten Six is a PMI Global Registered Education Provider. Individuals who attend our training courses
can earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) to maintain their PMP credential. This class earns
14 PDUs (Category A).
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If you have any questions regarding this class then please do not hesitate to contact us on (703) 910-
2600 or via email