Scheduling with Primavera SureTrak Project Manager


Location: New Orleans, LA or host a private course at your facility!
Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Duration: 2.00 Days
PDUs Awarded: 15.00

Course Structure:

GPM has found over the years that educating students using a highly interactive, hands-on workshop where concept reinforcement is stressed is the best means of preparing students to apply training on the job.

Who Should Attend?

Project Team Members, Project Managers, Program Managers, Estimators, Planners, Engineers, Drafters, Designers, Business Owners, Government Employees, Contractors, Subcontractors, Foremen, Supervisors, and Project Support Personnel.

What You Will Learn:

Day 1

Lesson 1. – Introduction to Project Management & Scheduling
  • What is Project Management?
  • What is Scheduling?
Lesson 2. – Starting a New Project
  • Initiating a Project
  • Customizing Project Information
  • Setting Parameters
  • Saving / Protecting Project Information
  • Lesson Review
Lesson 3. - Activities
  • Defining Activities
  • Adding Activities
  • Estimating the Durations of Activities
  • Lesson Review
Lesson 4. - Calendars
  • Planning for Workdays / Work hours
  • Adding New Calendars
  • Assigning Calendars to Tasks
  • Lesson Review
Lesson 5. – Activity Sequencing
  • What is Critical Path Methodology (CPM)?
  • Logic / Relationship Types
  • Predecessors / Successors
  • Sequencing Methods
  • Lesson Review
Day 2

Lesson 6. – Resource Planning
  • Organizational Resource Planning
  • Building the Resource Dictionary
  • Assigning Resources
  • Lesson Review
Lesson 7. – Organizing Project Information
  • Grouping & Sorting Project Information
  • The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Activity Coding
  • Filtering
  • Lesson Review
Lesson 8. – Updating the Schedule
  • Creating the Target
  • Applying “Actuals” to the Schedule
  • On Time / On-Budget?
  • Monitoring the Schedule
  • Lesson Review
Lesson 9. – Layouts and Reporting
  • Generating Graphic and Tabular Reports
  • Distributing Information to Project Stakeholders
  • Administrative Closure
  • Lesson Review

Lesson 10. – Case Studies / Additional Topics


PMI Certifications:

Global Project Management, LLC is a Global Registered Educational Provider (R.E.P.) with the Project Management Institute (PMI).