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COURSE Phases

Resource Cost Monitoring

Initiation Planning Management Management & Control
 Initiation

What Primavera P6 can do.

Initiation
Primavera P6 navigation, using main screen
and command bar

EPS ~ Start building Enterprise Project

Structure

Levels of Schedule
 Planning the Project
Creating a Project
Working with WBS
Establishing calendars
Activity types
Adding activities and duration

Planning Relationships, SS, FS, FF, SF

Float/ Lag/ Lead
Baseline the project
Activity Codes
Critical Path
Filters to make better sorting and reporting
Printing Baseline schedule
Project Exercise
 Resource Management

Types of Resources Labor, Material and Equipment

Creating Resources , Recourse Wizard

Units of measure for different quantities
Concept of budgeted units/ Man hours
Assigning Resources to activities
Resource
Management Resource usage profile
Activity usage profile
Manpower Estimates
Resource cost
Filter and Printing Resources Histogram
Create Craft wise resources
Project Exercise
 Cost Management

Types of costs in Primavera P6

Labour, Material and Equipment Cost

Prepare Cost analysis reports

Cost Graphing Cost S-curves
Management
Graphing Progress S-curves

Adding expenses in P6

Prepare Budgeted Cost for your Project

Prepare monthly, Weekly and yearly cost.

Monitor Plan vs Actual cost

Project Exercise
 Monitoring & Control

Types of progress % used in P6

How to select the right progress measurement
system for you project
Monitor Plan vs Actual Progress
Monitoring Monitor Plan vs Actual Cost
& Monitor Discipline wise Progress, Civil,
Control Mechanical and Electrical etc.
Prepare graphical reports using P6 and Excel

Prepare variance cost and progress variance

reports using P6

Prepare weekly reports for submission to

client.

Project Exercise
 Enterprise Project Structure
EPS is an organizational tool to create a hierarchy for grouping
and organizing projects.
Projects exists as separate files within an EPS level and each EPS
level can contain multiple projects. EPS comprised of roots and
nodes.
Root There is only one root, which represents the top level of
organization. A root can be sub divided into many nodes.
Nodes Represents different levels within the structure. Nodes
can contain unlimited number of projects.
Projects Represents the lowest level of a hieratical branch.
Enterprise Project Structure
Primavera P6 Interface
 FUNDAMENTALS OF SCHEDULE CONTROL
Various hierarchical schedules are developed on a project to monitor and control
effectively. The hierarchy defines the schedule control system and is shown in figure.

Describes Project phases &

L1 Milestones. Used at director level
of company.
Summary level schedule from level 3, summarizing project
Level 2 disciplines progress and used by senior management or
Project manager at office or job site.

Level 3 schedule is usually the controlling engine for all the

Level 3 schedule. This is integrated schedule for all the functions
and used by department managers for review.

Level 4 is detailed work plan. This is typically used for progress

Level 4 update at site by field superintendent level. The project is
controlled using this schedule and is used for delay analysis.
Who should be train using Primavera
P6 and at what Level?
Planning and Control Planning Engineers Planning Managers Project Manager

Level 1 - Planning Yes Yes May be

No Resources
Level 2- Planning Yes Yes May be
No resources
Level 3 Planning Yes Yes May be
With Resources
Level 4 Planning Yes May be May be
With Resources
 Planning the Project
Creating a Project
Working with WBS
Establishing calendars
Activity types
Adding activities and duration

Planning Relationships, SS, FS, FF, SF

Float/ Lag/ Lead
Baseline the project
Activity Codes
Critical Path
Filters to make better sorting and reporting
Printing Baseline schedule
Project Exercise
 What is WBS ?
WBS is the deliverable oriented, hierarchical decomposition
of the work to be executed by project team, to accomplish
project objectives . WBS organizes and define the total
scope of the project.
If it is not in WBS, It is not a part of a project.
Air Plane Project
Decomposition of Work
 WBS of Airplane
WBS organizes and define the total scope of the project.
WBS is broken down from top to bottom and the lowest level is called work
package. But even this is later broken down further into schedule activities.
Further more, WBS is also used to estimate the cost of the project.

Airplane
$ 12000
Fuselage Wings Landing gear Empennage Power Plant

$3000 $2000 $1000 $1000 $5000

Vertical
Passenger Horizontal
Cockpit Right aileron Left aileron Stabilizer Propeller
Cabin Stabilizer
$1000 $2000 $1000 $1000 $500 $500 $5000
 WBS of New Home Construction
Hierarchical decomposition of the work for New Home construction.

New Home
Construction

Grading Foundation Structure Landscaping

Framing Roof Interior Exterior

Mechanical Electrical Plumbing Dry wall Dcor

Lets try to understand WBS with better clarity

Grading
Framing
Foundation
New Home Construction Roof Mechanical
Structure
Exterior Electrical
Landscaping
Interior Plumbing

Dry wall

Dcor
 An activity is a task or event in a schedule that contributes
What is an
Activity? to completing the project. Activity has following features.

Every activity has a unique ID, which is useful

ID in sorting and reporting.
Block work
A unique description, typically begins with a B1000
Name verb, that clearly defines the activity. 01-08-16 30 days 01-09-16

Every activity has a start date and finish date. Plaster

Date
P1100
10-09-16 10 days 20-09-16
The number of working days to perform a
Duratio
n specific activity.
.
Relationship or logic which drives activities
Logic and create logic between them.
 Activity types in Primavera P6
Primavera P6 uses several activities types that control
how an activitys duration and dates are calculated;
 Relationships In Primavera P6
There are four types of relationships , scheduler can use to
define the dependencies between activities.
1) Finish to start (FS) Most used relationship is FS
The successor activity can not start until the predecessor finished.
Means activity Dry Car can only starts after activity Washing car finished.
It is the most commonly used relationship in any construction schedule

Washing Car
(FS)

Drying car
(FS)

Wax Car
 Relationships In Primavera P6
There are four types of relationships , scheduler can use to
define the dependencies between activities.
2) Start to Start (SS)
The successor activity can not start until the predecessor activity starts. For
example, Activity B can start only after the start of Activity A . Starting
both activities at same time.

Washing Car
(SS)
Drying car
 Relationships In Primavera P6
There are four types of relationships , scheduler can use to
define the dependencies between activities.

2) Finish to Finish (FF)

The successor activity finishes at the same time as the predecessor activity.
For example, Activity B must finish at the same time as Activity A finishes.

Activity A
(FF)
Activity B
 Relationships In Primavera P6
There are four types of relationships , scheduler can use to
define the dependencies between activities.

2) Start to Finish (SF)

The successor activity finishes after the start of predecessor. For example,
Activity B finishes after the start of Activity A.

It is the least commonly used relationship.

Activity A

Activity B (SF)
Interpretation of Relationships
 Constraints
Constraints are artificial dates, they override the schedule
relationships. There are two types of constraints;
Hard Constraints
Hard constraint overrides the network logic and is a restriction that sets
the early and late dates to the imposed date.
1. Mandatory start date:
It prevents the start of an activity before or after the specific date, even
if the predecessor are complete.
2. Mandatory finish date:
It prevents the finish of an activity before or after the specified date,
even if the predecessor are complete or the successor have started.
 Constraints
Soft Constraints

A soft constraint protects the schedule logic.

There are two types of soft constraints;

1: Start on or Finish on Date

A restriction that will delay the early start or finish or accelerate the late start or finish to satisfy the
imposed date.

2: As late as possible date:

A restriction that uses positive float to delay an activity as long as possible without delaying its
successor.
 Lags

Lag is the duration assigned

to a predecessor activity to delay the
start of successor activity.
OR
Lag is waiting time inserted between activities

You must wait for 15 days after pouring concrete before you can construct the house framework
 Lead (Negative lag)

Lead is also called negative lag, it is the duration assigned to a

predecessor activity to allow acceleration of its successor
activity.
Example of Lead
Lag & Lead
 Resource Management
Introduction to Resource management.

Types of Resources in Primavera P6

Creating Resources using Resource Wizard.

Adding Labour Resource.

Adding Non Labour Resource.

Adding Material type of Resources.

Resource loading a schedule in P6.

Resource loading at WBS level, high level resourcing.

Finding and resolving resource leveling issues.

Resource usage profile

Activity Usage profile

Manpower estimates and Labor cost

Create craft wise Resources and Manpower Histogram

Types of Resources
 Types of Resources
P6 defines resources as anything used to complete a schedule activity;
specifically, labor, non labor, and material.

Labor Resources
Labor ( Man-Resource) measured in units of time,
They can be as specific as an individual, or established as an
entire crew.
Example; Engineer, Carpenter, Mason etc.

Labor resource are generally, reused between activities and

projects and are recorded in terms of price/unit of time
(50$/hour)
Non Labor Resource

Non labor resource includes

Equipment and subcontractors).

Non labor resource is measured in

units of time and generally reused
between activities and projects
and recorded in terms of price/unit
of time ($465/hour)
Material Resource
It includes any type of material
required to complete that activity.
For example; Valves , Blocks etc.

Material resource is also measured in

units other than time such as tons,
cubic meter, linear meter and so
forth.

Once a material resource is created in

resource dictionart, it can be reused in
different activities. And material resource
are recored in terms of price/unit of
measure (4.5/square foot)
Adding Resources in P6
Lets Analyze Resources
Manpower Histogram