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Course Details

Title	Planning & Scheduling with P3 3.1
Number	601
Duration	3 days
Overview	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 eleven 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 also be covered.
Audience	New P3 users
Prerequisites	A working knowledge of Windows

Course Outline

Day One:

• Fundamentals of Project Management
• Establishing the Project & Coding Structures
• Defining Calendars
• Adding and Organising Activities

Day Two:

• Relationships
• Scheduling
• Applying Constraints to a Schedule
• Customising 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

Abilities Gained:

• Define the project and coding structures
• Add and organise activity data
• Develop a project network with precedence relationships
• Perform schedule calculations
• Apply constraints to a schedule
• Customise the project layout
• Assign resources and costs to a project
• Create a target schedule
• Enter statusing data to update a schedule
• Store period performance data
• Produce project output