The Primavera P6 Project Planning and Scheduling Training Course by The British Academy For Training and Development provides practical skills for applying Project Management with Primavera P6 to project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control. The programme covers Primavera P6, work breakdown structures, activity sequencing, calendars, baselines, dependencies, milestones, and schedule development for complex projects.

Participants learn how to build and maintain integrated project schedules, perform critical path analysis, allocate resources, monitor progress, analyse schedule performance, and support effective project controls. The course connects scheduling with resource planning, cost and progress monitoring, baseline management, and reporting to improve project visibility and delivery performance. It is part of Project Management Courses Training Courses under the Management category.

• Understand the principles of Project Management with Primavera P6.
• Develop practical proficiency in Primavera P6 for project planning and scheduling.
• Create structured project plans using Work Breakdown Structures.
• Develop activities, relationships, milestones, calendars, and project schedules.
• Apply professional scheduling techniques to engineering and construction projects.
• Perform critical path analysis to identify activities that directly affect project completion.
• Establish and maintain project baselines.
• Apply effective resource planning and resource allocation techniques.
• Monitor actual project progress against approved schedules.
• Analyse schedule variances and identify corrective actions.
• Strengthen project controls through schedule analysis and reporting.
• Generate meaningful project schedule reports for project management decisions.

Target Audience

• Project Planners
• Project Schedulers
• Project Managers
• Planning Engineers
• Project Controls Professionals
• Construction Managers
• Project Engineers
• Cost and Schedule Engineers
• Resource Planning Professionals
• Engineering and Infrastructure Professionals
• Professionals responsible for project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control

Module 1: Introduction to Project Management with Primavera P6

• Fundamentals of Project Management with Primavera P6
• Primavera P6 interface and project environment
• Project structures and organisational hierarchy
• Project planning and scheduling concepts
• Primavera P6 terminology and workflows
• Setting up project information

Module 2: Project Structures and Work Breakdown

• Primavera P6 project structure
• Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
• Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Project codes and activity codes
• Structuring projects for effective reporting
• Developing logical project hierarchies

Module 3: Activity Development and Project Planning

• Project planning with Primavera P6
• Creating activities
• Activity types and durations
• Milestones and deliverables
• Activity calendars
• Activity codes and classification
• Defining project work packages

Module 4: Scheduling and Activity Relationships

• Primavera P6 scheduling
• Activity sequencing
• Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish, and Start-to-Finish relationships
• Leads and lags
• Schedule calculation
• Identifying logical relationships
• Managing schedule constraints

Module 5: Critical Path Analysis

• Critical path analysis
• Critical activities and total float
• Free float and schedule flexibility
• Identifying critical paths
• Near-critical activities
• Analysing schedule sensitivity
• Managing critical path risks

Module 6: Resource Planning and Allocation

• Resource planning
• Creating and assigning resources
• Labour, equipment, and material resources
• Resource calendars
• Resource loading
• Resource availability and utilisation
• Identifying resource constraints

Module 7: Cost Loading and Project Budgeting

• Primavera P6 cost management
• Resource costs and expenses
• Cost loading
• Budget development
• Planned value and project cost information
• Monitoring planned versus actual costs
• Linking schedule and cost information

Module 8: Baselines and Progress Management

• Primavera P6 baseline management
• Creating project baselines
• Baseline comparison
• Updating actual progress
• Data date and progress measurement
• Remaining duration and actual duration
• Identifying schedule deviations

Module 9: Project Controls and Schedule Monitoring

• Project controls
• Schedule performance monitoring
• Variance analysis
• Planned versus actual progress
• Schedule forecasting
• Corrective and recovery planning
• Monitoring project milestones and deliverables

Module 10: Schedule Updating and Forecasting

• Primavera P6 schedule updating
• Updating activities and resources
• Applying actual start and finish dates
• Updating remaining durations
• Progress calculations
• Forecasting project completion
• Managing delayed and incomplete activities

Module 11: Reporting and Schedule Analysis

• Primavera P6 reporting
• Schedule layouts and filters
• Project dashboards and reports
• Activity and resource reports
• Critical path reporting
• Progress and variance reports
• Communicating schedule information to stakeholders

Module 12: Advanced Project Scheduling and Control

• Advanced Primavera P6 scheduling
• Schedule optimisation
• Resource levelling considerations
• Recovery schedules
• Scenario and what-if analysis
• Schedule quality review
• Integrating Primavera P6, scheduling, and project controls for effective project delivery