Course Descriptions
Primavera has developed standard classes (shown below) that have been widely accepted throughout our customer base. However, we recognize that your training needs may be unique. Please feel free to contact us to create a customized, role-based training curriculum to meet your specific business goals.
Provides hands-on training for Primavera’s Web-based solution. Participants will create a project, add activities and relationships, customize activity views, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and overallocated resources, and analyze portfolios. Participants also will customize dashboards. Hands-on workshops help students create and track an entire project to completion.
Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers
Course length: 3 days
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Fundamental project management training, knowledge of MS Windows
Profession Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 19.5 PDUs and 1.95 CEUs
PMI Program Number - 101
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Provides hands-on training for Primavera’s client/server-based solution, leading participants through the entire project life cycle, from planning to execution. Topics include adding activities, assigning resources, and creating a baseline. Participants also gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling. All workshops and instruction stress the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resource and costs.
Course level: Basic
Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers, Planners/Schedulers
Course length: 3 days
Prerequisite: Fundamental project management training, knowledge of MS Windows
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 19.5 PDUs and 1.95 CEUs
PMI Program Number - 102
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Provides guidance on setting up enterprise data in P6 Client-Server and P6 Web, including the creation of calendars, project codes, activity codes, resource codes, financial periods, and cost accounts. Also covers how to set up users and establish security.
Targeted roles: P6 System Administrators
Course length: 1 day
Course level: Advanced
Prerequisite: Course 102
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 6.5 PDUs and .65 CEUs
PMI Program Number – 106-A
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Provides in-depth project management training in P6 client-server-based solution, building off skills learned in the basic course (102). Topics include earned value analysis, updating baselines, importing and exporting project data, and top-down budgeting.
Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers, Administrators, Planners/Schedulers.
Course length: 2 days
Course level: Advanced
Prerequisite: Course 102
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 13 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs
PMI Program Number – 106-P
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Provides in-depth resource management training in Primavera’s client/server-based solution. Building off skills learned in the basic course (102), the 106-R course covers advanced topics in managing resource allocation, future-period bucket planning, and resource leveling. Extended case studies at the end of each day provide an opportunity to apply new skills and functionality.
Targeted roles: Resource Managers, Project Managers
Course length: 2 days
Course level: Advanced
Prerequisite: Course 102
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 13 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs
PMI Program Number – 106-R
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Provides hands-on training in P6 Web, focusing on resource management. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of resource management by adding a resource to the enterprise resource pool; planning for resource needs in future projects; staffing resources on current projects; and managing resources to ensure they are fully utilized. Workshops provide an opportunity to apply new skills and functionality.
Targeted roles: Resource Managers, Project Managers
Course length: 1.5 to 2 days
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Course 101 recommended but not required
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 13.5 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs
PMI Program Number - 107
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This course is specially designed for users moving from Primavera Project Planner (P3) to P6. Numerous charts list how P3 fields and functionality map to Primavera P6, enabling users to leverage their existing knowledge of P3 and rapidly adapt to new features in P6. The course begins with navigation, menus, and terminology in P6, and introduces new ways to view layouts and run reports. The course also details how basic tasks in the project management life cycle are executed in P6, including how to create activities, assign and analyze resources, and update the project plan. An appendix at the back of the manual covers how to convert projects from P3 to P6. (Please note that this course is designed for existing users of P3. Those who wish to learn Primavera P6, but are not P3 users, should register for Course 102.)
Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers, Planners/Schedulers who are using P3.
Course length: 2 days
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Course 601 or knowledge of P3
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 13 PDUs or 1.3 CEUs
PMI Program Number - 108
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Provides hands-on training on managing portfolios in P6 Web. Topics include creating a portfolio, viewing and analyzing portfolio performance, creating portfolio views, capacity planning, waterline analysis, and managing issues and risks. A case study at the end of the day reinforces new skills and functionality.
Course level: Basic
Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers, Executives
Course length: 1 day
Prerequisite: Course 101 recommended but not required
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 6.5 PDUs and .65 CEUs
PMI Program Number – 109 (pending)
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Provides hands-on training for Primavera’s Contract Manager solution, focusing on project cost control and document management. Additional topics include logging and tracking submittals, recording project communication, awarding procurement items, and using contracts, purchase orders, and trends. Numerous workshops reinforce new functionality and skills.
Targeted roles: Contract and Project Administrators, Contract Managers, Project Controls Managers
Course length: 3 days
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Functional knowledge of MS Windows and Internet Explorer
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units:
Earns 19.5 PDUs and 1.95 CEUs
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This two-day course provides hands-on training for contractors. It examines how to plan, schedule, control, and analyze projects.
Course level: Basic
Targeted role: Contractors
Additional audiences: Existing Primavera Contractor users
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Primavera ProSight has developed standard classes (shown below) that have been widely accepted throughout our customer base. However, we recognize that your training needs may be unique. Please feel free to contact us to create a customized, role-based training curriculum to meet your specific business goals.
This one day course is specially designed for new users of Primavera ProSight and Portfolio Management. The introductory course will discuss key Portfolio Management concepts, including Portfolio Management operating structures, governance structures, and business processes. This course will also deliver an overview on basic ProSight Portfolios concepts and definitions, including Portfolios Navigation and introduction to Scorecards, Investor Maps, Forms, and Workbooks. The time allotted for this course will enable time for hands on exercises that support all instructions. This course will be required prior to attending the more advanced classes available and will be the building block to advance throughout all the features and functionalities of Primavera ProSight Portfolios.
Course level: Basic
Audience: Primavera ProSight End Users
Additional audiences: All Primavera ProSight New users
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This one day course has been designed for Primavera ProSight end users who have the need to create and analysis the data being captured in Primavera ProSight Portfolios. This will include detailed instructions on creating Scorecards, Query Based Portfolios, Investor Maps, Dashboards and setting up My Processes for Executives to utilize the Executive Dashboards created on their behalf.
Course level: Advanced
Audience: Primavera ProSight End users
Additional audiences: Primavera ProSight Data Analysis
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This 2 day course has been designed for users that will have responsibility to configure and implement ProSight Portfolios. This is a detailed course on how to configure and implement ProSight Portfolios, using real implementation case studies. This course will include detailed step-by-step and case study driven instruction. In addition, it will include a segment on how to set-up roles-based security and how to manage and maintain the application. Instructor led, and extensive hands-on training.
Course level: Advanced
Audience: Primavera ProSight Configurators
Additional audiences: Primavera ProSight Administrators
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Pertmaster training courses run monthly in London and Houston. Other locations around Europe and the US are also periodically scheduled. Our experts in enterprise project risk management have been presenting these courses for many years and provide everything needed for a full day's worth of learning.
Provides hands-on training on Primavera Pertmaster, leading students through a risk management methodology that includes: Schedule Review; Pre-Analysis Check; Build a Risk Model; Analyze and View; Mitigate and Report. Students also participate in workshops to reinforce risk management fundamentals and application functionality.
Course level: Basic
Audience: New Primavera Pertmaster Users
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This 2-day advanced risk analysis course is aimed at active Pertmaster software users looking to further their understanding of the full capabilities of Pertmaster software.
Ideally attendees will have been on the standard 3-day “Introduction to Project Risk Analysis and Management with Pertmaster” course, or an equivalent.
Course level: Advanced
Audience: New Primavera Pertmaster Users
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Getting started with P3 through hands-on, basic training. During this three-day course participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling while learning P3.
Course level: Basic
Audience: P3 users
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This one-day course will enable you to take full advantage of driving resources, resource curves, hierarchical resources, resource profiles/tables and resource leveling. Learn resource calendars for planning and control and Rich Text Format reports for status reporting.
Course level: Advanced
Audience: P3 users
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This one-day hands-on training course will take you beyond the fundamentals of scheduling a project by transferring project data through copy and paste, storing and retrieving fragnets, and using import and export. In addition, global change, and custom data items will be used to modify activity data.
Course level: Advanced
Audience: P3 users
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of SureTrak Project Manager for Windows. It examines how to use SureTrak for project planning, scheduling, control and analysis.
Course level: Basic
Audience: SureTrak users
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This two-day course is an introduction to Primavera’s cost management solution. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of how to improve project results through more accurate tracking and forecasting of project performance.
Course level: Basic
Targeted role: Cost Analysts, Financial Managers
Additional audiences: Existing cost management module users. Those who need to work with financial data for reporting and tracking performance purposes.
NOTE: This is a standard, software functionality-based class. Industry specific offerings/examples are not included in standard classes.
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