Many instructors are merely instructors having past experience in project management or related fields, but not necessarily in project planning or scheduling. They are not currently actively involved in the field and are unaware of recent changes/advancement in project management work environment. 

In contrast, our instructors or not merely instructors with knowledge of utilizing Primavera Project Management Software, but they are actively involved in the profession. So, not only they know the application inside out, but they posses years of real-life experience in project planning, scheduling, and controls.

Our instructors don’t just teach, they practice their skills on daily basis in real work environment. They don't merely know how to operate the software, but they offer comprehensive information on how to function successfully in the profession and how to manage real projects.

Not only you learn the technical aspects of your job, but you also learn many skills essential to be successful in this profession.  

During our instruction, students go through the entire project from start to finish from planning, data collection, system setup, project setup, to all the way to the completion of a project. You are given skill development assignments and tests on how to manage common difficulties in real life situations. We also help you resolve many challenges you face on daily basis.  

We offer small class sizes for individual attention and better training. Classes are forming now; contact us to schedule one. Classes are offered online, at our facility, or on-site at your location.

Registration and payment are due two weeks prior to start of class. Cancellation received within a week is refunded in full.

Call 1-888-864-9849 or send us an email at info@projatech.com to further inquire.

Please NOTE: Our single class covers more material than 2 or 3 classes offered elsewhere and our training and support doesn't end with the class, in fact you become part of our extensive group of professionals and we continue to provide you help and support until you are successful in your endeavor.

Your instructor is not just any person with knowledge of Primavera. You will be trained by an exclusive world-wide scheduling trainer for a large petroleum company with over 12 years of experience in scheduling, training, project controls, and risk analysis in may industries, such as, engineering, construction, energy, transportation, and school system.

RATES

Call or email for larger class size and corporate training packages

Two or more students
Online with a live instructor over application sharing and conference call

One-day Course:.............$650/Student

Personalized 1-to-1 training
Online with a live instructor over application sharing and conference call

One-day Course:.............$850/Student

3 or More Students
At your location customized face-to-face training

One-Day Training:...........$900/Student (travel & boarding extra for less than 5 students)
Two-Day Training:.......... $1,600/Student (travel & boarding extra for less than 5 students)

Normally each online class is 6-8 hour long. In some cases if students prefer to learn at a slower pace, we can split each class into two 3-4 hour long class.

During the class, students work on the application hands-on with the assistance of a live Instructor communicating via conference call and application sharing over the Internet. All online classes are offered on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Face-to-face classes can be arranged any day of the week.

Call 1-888-864-9849 to further inquire or to make reservations:  

* Prices subject to change without notice.

Primavera 5.0/6.0 Project Management Courses

Course 101: - Introduction to planning and Controlling with Primavera Project Management
Level: Introductory
Duration: 1-day

Prerequisites: Familiarity with project planning and scheduling concepts
Description: This course covers general introduction to almost all the major concepts in scheduling and most of the functionality in Primavera. Get started with introduction to Primavera 5.0 through hands-on training. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling while learning about the Primavera Project Management tool. This one-day course covers more than 2-days of material covered by many other instructors. Most of scheduling related topics are introduced to prepare students for Intermediate and advanced level courses.

• Introduction to concepts of effective planning and scheduling

• Introduction to Primavera & Concepts of Planning With & Without Resources

        General introduction to following concepts

• Starting up and Navigating

• Creating a New Project

• Defining Calendars

• Creating a Primavera Project WBS

• Adding Activities & Organizing Under the WBS

• Formatting The Display

• Adding Relationships

• Activity Network View

• Applying Constraints

• Designing and Applying Filters

• Group, Sort & Layouts

• Printing Layouts and Reports

• Tracking Progress

• Statusing a Schedule

• Activity, Project & Resource Codes

Course 110: - Functional Level Skills/Topics in Primavera Project Management
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 1-day

Prerequisites: Completion of Introductory Level Course or equivalent experience/knowledge of Primavera.
Description: In this course you will learn in depth many of the concepts covered in Introductory level course. In addition, you will be introduced to some additional advance skills and functionality within each area mentioned below.

• Starting up and Navigating

• Creating a New Project

• Defining Calendars

• Creating a Primavera Project WBS

• Adding Activities & Organizing Under the WBS

• Formatting The Display

• Adding Relationships

• Activity Network View

• Applying Constraints

• Designing and Applying Filters

• Group, Sort & Layouts

• Printing Layouts and Reports

• Creating Project Portfolios

Course 201: - Advance Topics in Primavera Project Management
Level: Advance
Duration: 1-day

Prerequisites: Completion of Intermediate Level Course or equivalent experience/knowledge of Primavera.
Description: This advance level course covers all the functional areas and concepts of scheduling and planning using Primavera. In addition to many new skills, you will be fully prepared in the areas covered in the Intermediate level course. With the completion of this course you will be ready for a successful career in project planning and scheduling.

• Advance Topics in Starting up and Navigating

• Creating a New Project with proper setup

• Defining Activity and Resource Calendars

• Effective Methods of Creating a Primavera Project WBS

• Adding Activities & Organizing Under the WBS

• Advance Formatting The Display

• Advance Methods of Adding Relationships

• Utilizing Activity Network View For Better Scheduling

• Applying and Proper Utilization of Constraints

• Designing and Applying Advance Filters

• Advance Topics in Group, Sort & Layouts

• Inside-out of Printing Layouts and Reports

• Project Baselining

• Tracking Progress

• User & Administration Preferences and Advanced Scheduling Options

• Creating Roles & Resources

• Assigning Roles, Resources & Expenses

• Statusing a Resource loaded Schedule

• Resource leveling techniques

• Activity, Project, and Resource Codes

Course 210: - Master-of-Trade in Primavera Project Management
Level: Master
Duration: 1-day

Prerequisites: Completion of Advance Level Course and/or significant experience in scheduling and use of Primavera application.
Description: This course is designed for those who wish to be master of both Primavera application and scheduling and planning skills. You will be introduced to many complicated and specialized skills that only a small portion of elite schedulers learn for a career advancement.

• Master Level Planning & Scheduling concepts

• How to develop a New project from scratch; collecting activity, duration information, and setting up logic

• Import Export: XER, MS Project, and MS Excel

• Creating and managing project reflection

• Introduction to Methodology Manager

• Applying resource Curves

• Global and project level administrative setups

• Monitoring progress using Banana curves

• Use of MS Excel in project reporting

• Earn Value Management, CPI, SPI, and other advanced concepts

• Project Baseline development, application, and updates

• Tracking & Monitoring Project Progress using multiple baselines

• Tracking, Monitoring, and Maintaining Project Quality

• Project Calendar Conflicts and Issues

• Working with Labor, Material and Equipment type resource and costs

• Advance multi-level resource leveling techniques

• Designing Master Level Reports

• Designing and Printing Important Management Reports

• Effective Methods of collecting project updates

• Bug Workarounds in Primavera

• Advance custom report designing

• Introduction to concept of risk register and project risk analysis

• Post training advance help and resources

Transition from Primavera P3 to P6

Course PT3500: - P6 changes and enhancement
Level: Functional Skill
Duration: 1-day

Prerequisites: Moderate level of Primavera P3 experience
Description: The course is designed for those having moderate level of Primavera P3 experience and now see the need or requirement to develop schedules in P6. In this course you will learn the differences between P3 and P6 both in interface and functionality. We will also learn new features and enhancements in P6. The course is designed to bring you up to speed with P6. This one day course will prepare you to effectively develop schedules in the latest Primavera application.

• Reviewing activity data

• Working with network logic

• Customizing activity tables

• Customizing Gantt chart

• Creating and managing baselines

• Comparing project with multiple baselines

• Where to find File, Edit, View, Format, Tools, and data menus

• Understanding terminology changes between versions

• Understanding dates in P6

• Understanding built-in ClaimDigger functionality

• Understand EPS, Resource Hierarchy, WBS, and OBS

• Project activity and resource codes

• Calendars

• Reviewing activity dates

• Tips & Tricks

  • Understanding activity types

  • Understanding duration & percent complete types

  • Creating Hammock activities

  • Using auto cost

  • Creating reports

  • Using global changes

  • Grouping activities by resources

  • Stacking multiple resources bars in profile

  • Display activity network

• Converting P3 projects to P6

• Importing P3 project to P6

Project Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis (Using PertMaster)

Course R500: - Effective project risk analysis techniques using PertMaster
Level: Functional Skill
Duration: 1-day

Prerequisites: Familiarity with project scheduling concepts
Description: For all large projects identification and management of schedule and cost risk is crucial for the success of project. All major organizations require risk analysis, development of risk register, and formation of mitigation strategy before executing a project. Once project starts, risk analysis and mitigation is an ongoing requirement. Advance identification of risk saves organization significantly by managing risks and negotiating contracts with minimum liability. Risk analysis is a mix of science and art. The art of facilitating a session to solicit and collect correct information is as essential as analyzing the information. In this course not only you learn the science, but the art behind enhanced facilitation. Furthermore, you learn how to conduct risk analysis calculations and interpret results meaningfully. We will share with you our years of experience and deliver it to you in a one day session. 

• Preparing schedule and cost figures for risk assessment

• Schedule quality assurance techniques

• Verifying activity duration standards and cost determination methods

• Identifying pre-existing risk and float in a schedule

• Determining multiple float paths and identifying long lead items

• Verifying float path activity significance and sequencing

• Selecting risk analysis basis (entire project or float paths)

• Pre-session risk register development

• Arrangements for risk assessment session

• Preparing and conditioning participants

• Facilitation during risk analysis session

• Managing risk-event brainstorming session

• Refining risk-event list and assigning probability and schedule impacts

• Developing risk mitigation strategy and revising probability and schedule impacts

• Associating risks to activities

• Establishing correlation between activities and risks

• Developing pre and post-mitigation plans

• Running Monte-Carlo Analysis

• Analyzing risk analysis results

• Refining analysis

• Finalizing results and communicating with participants

• Ongoing risk register refinements and risk analysis updates

Project Quality Assurance & Progress Monitoring

Course P900: - Advanced techniques in project quality assurance and progress monitoring
Level: Advance
Duration: 1-day

Prerequisites: Proficiency and experience in project scheduling
Description: Developing a poor schedule is sometimes worse than not having a schedule at all if the schedule does not meet the minimum scheduling quality standards. Developing a quality schedule is rare. Most of the schedules in the industry do not even meet basic quality standards. Executing a project based on such poor schedule is a guaranteed disappointment for stakeholders.

Learn in one day, what we learned over a decade. Learn how to quickly determine quality of a schedule. Whether the schedule is developed in-house or by a contractor, don't accept a schedule that is substandard. Easily determine whether a schedule meets minimum quality standards and then learn advance schedule quality assurance techniques. These techniques are essential to determine if a schedule is up to the standard for a baseline schedule. Furthermore, learn how to effectively monitor progress of your project using multiple reports, baseline variance, Float analysis, Critical path monitoring, physical progress assessment, Earn Value, Cost Performance Index, Schedule Performance Index and more.

• Learn why and how to check a schedule for top 9 schedule quality assurance criteria

• Learn effective methods of correcting a schedule quality

• Learn techniques to check schedule quality beyond basic criteria

• Methods of creating, maintaining, and updating a baseline

• Reports you must review regularly to monitor schedule progress effectively

• Methods of determining physical progress

• How to effectively monitor physical progress

• What to include in a contract with a contractor

• Determine project progress at a glance using advanced progress monitoring methods

• What are progress monitoring banana curves

• Learn the use of baseline variance and Float analysis

• How to watch for Critical and Sub-Critical paths

• Determining project progress using Earn Value, Cost Performance Index, Schedule Performance Index, To Complete Performance Index, Estimate At Completion and more.

Scheduling Using Microsoft Project

Course MS100: - Functional Level Skills/Topics in Microsoft Project
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 1-day

Prerequisites: Familiarity with MS Project or general scheduling
Description: In this course you will learn in depth many of the most commonly used scheduling concepts and functionality offered by MS Project. In addition, you will be introduced to some additional advance skills and functionality within each area mentioned below.

• Starting up and Navigating

• Creating a New Project

• Defining Calendars

• Creating activity grouping & hierarchy

• Formatting Displays

• Adding Relationships

• Activity Network View

• Applying Constraints

• Designing and Applying Filters

• Group, Sort & Layouts

• Printing Layouts and Reports

• Working with custom reports

• Working with cost and resources

Course MS200: - Advance Topics in Microsoft Project
Level: Advance
Duration: 1-day

Prerequisites: Completion of Intermediate Level Course or equivalent experience/knowledge in MS Project
Description: This advance level course covers all the functional areas and concepts of scheduling and planning using MS Project. In addition to many new skills, you will be fully prepared in the areas covered in the Intermediate level course. With the completion of this course you will be ready for a successful career in project planning and scheduling using MS Project.

• Advance Topics in Starting up and Navigating

• Creating a New Project with proper setup

• Defining Activity and Calendars

• Effective Methods of Creating MS Project activity grouping hierarchy

• Adding Activities & Organizing Under grouping hierarchy

• Advance Formatting Displays

• Advance Methods of Adding Relationships

• Utilizing Activity Network View For Better Scheduling

• Applying and Proper Utilization of Constraints

• Designing and Applying Advance Filters

• Advance Topics in Group, Sort & Layouts

• Inside-out of Printing Layouts and Reports

• Project Baselining

• Tracking Progress

• User & Administration Preferences and Advanced Scheduling Options

• Creating and customizing Resources

• Assigning Resources & Expenses to activities

• Statusing a Resource loaded Schedule

• Resource leveling

• Activity, Project, and Resource Codes

• Advance custom reporting