Audience: New P3 users

Prerequisite: A working knowledge of Windows

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 nine 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 be covered.

• Fundamentals of project management
• Establishing the project and coding structures
• Defining calendars
• Adding and organizing activities

• Relationships
• Scheduling
• Applying constraints to a schedule
• Customizing the layout

• Managing resources and costs
• Creating the target plan
• Updating the current schedule
• Producing effective output

• 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 a project

• Define the project and coding structures
• Add and organize activity data
• Develop a project network with precedence relationships
• Perform schedule calculations
• Apply constraints to a schedule
• Customize 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