This course provides training for Primavera’s client/server based solution. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling. All instructions use the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resource, and costs.


  • Comprehend the Project Management Life Cycle

  • Describe how Primavera assist with the Project Management Life Cycle

  • Use scheduling capabilities in Primavera

  • Understand WBS and how it can be built in Primavera

  • Comprehend the concept of Critical Path and its depiction in Primavera.

Week-1

The Project Management Life Cycle

  • Review· the relationship between Primavera and the Project Management Life Cycle

  • Identify the five process groups in the Project Management Life Cycle


Scheduling Overview

  • Planning vs Scheduling

  • Levels of Schedules

  • Introduction to WBS

  • Key Scheduling Definition i.e. Activities, Millstones, Predecessor and Successor, etc.

  • Activity Sequencing Elements

  • Critical Path


Read Chapters 1-2 of textbook; complete all assignment questions

Week-2

Data, Navigating, and Layouts

  • Login

  • Open an existing project

  • Navigate in the Home window and Activities window

  • Open an existing layout

  • Customize a layout

  • Save a layout


Creating a Project

  • Create a project

  • Navigate in the Projects window

  • View and modify information in Project Details


Read Chapters 3-5 of textbook; complete all assignment questions

Week-3

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

  • Define a Work Breakdown Structure

  • Create multiple levels of a WBS hierarchy


Adding Activities

  • Describe an activity and its components

  • Describe activity types

  • Add activities

  • Add a Notebook topic to an activity

  • Add steps to an activity

  • Assign activity codes to activities


Read Chapters 6-8 of textbook; complete all assignment questions

Week-4

Creating Relationships

  • Create a network logic diagram

  • Differentiate between the four relationship types

  • Create relationships in the Activity Network

  • Create relationships in Activity Details Scheduling

  • Perform a forward and backward pass

  • Describe float and its impact on a schedule

  • Identify loops and open ends

  • Calculate a schedule


Read Chapters 9-11 of textbook; do complete all assignment questions

Week-5

Formatting Schedule Data

  • Group activities according to specific criteria

  • Sort activities

  • Apply a filter

  • Create a filter


Read Chapter 12 of textbook; do complete all assignment questions

Week-6

Roles and Resources

  • Describe roles

  • Views the roles dictionary

  • Describe resources

  • Identify the differences between labor, non-labor and material resources

  • View the resource dictionary


Assigning Roles

  • Assign roles to an activity

  • Assign rates on roles


Read Chapter 13 of textbook; do complete all assignment questions