This five-day course provides hands-on training for Primavera’s Web-based solutions. Participants create a project, add activities and relationships, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and over allocated resources, and analyze portfolios. Trainees also learn how to customize the Personal Workspace and the Project Workspace to monitor project progress and communicate with team members. Participants 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. Topics also include creating a portfolio, viewing and analyzing portfolio performance, creating portfolio views, capacity planning, waterline analysis, and managing issues and risks.
Course Details
Location
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2011 Training Dates
October 10-14
Learn
- Create a project
- Customize dashboards and the Project Workspace
- Execute long-range resource planning
- Administer the resource pool
- Create a portfolio
- Create performance thresholds
Intended Audience
- Functional Implementer
- Business Analyst
- End User
- Project Manager
Suggested Prerequisite
- Knowledge of project management principles
Course Objectives
- Analyze resources and costs
- Baseline the project plan
- Create a Work Breakdown Structure
- Create a project
- Create relationships
- Create reports
- Administer the Resource Pool
- Create Resource Teams
- Create Role Teams
- Manage Allocation
- Staff Resource Requests
- Analyze portfolio performance
- Create a portfolio
- Manage issues and risks
- View portfolio information
- View portfolio performance
