🔹 Primavera P6 Tutorial for Beginners 🔹 Lessons 5 to 7 🔹 Full Step-by-Step Project Schedule in P6

00:00 Lesson 5 – Setting Up Calendars in P6
07:32 Lesson 6 – Building the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
15:15 Lesson 7 – Adding Activities in P6

Primavera P6 Tutorial for Beginners 🔹 Lessons 5 to 7 (of 10)
Full Step-by-Step Project Schedule in P6
By Gavin Drysdale

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This Primavera P6 for Beginners course is the perfect starting point for anyone new to Oracle Primavera P6—one of the world’s leading project scheduling tools. Whether you’re a project manager, scheduler, engineer, or planner, this course will guide you step-by-step through the fundamentals of creating and managing a project schedule.

You’ll start by understanding how Primavera P6 is structured, then learn how to navigate the interface, build projects, create calendars, define a work breakdown structure (WBS), add activities, and establish scheduling logic. As you progress, you’ll also learn how to clean up layouts, customise your views, and prepare your project for baseline and execution.

This course lays a solid foundation for intermediate and advanced Primavera P6 topics, and includes access to a downloadable eBook and optional training extensions.

Designed for:
🔹 Project Managers
🔹 Project Controllers
🔹 Project Schedulers
🔹 Engineers
🔹 Cost Controllers

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Lesson 1 – Introduction to Primavera P6
Meet your instructor and get an overview of Primavera P6, its industry applications, and what you’ll learn in this course—from navigating the interface to building a baseline schedule.

Lesson 2 – Navigating the Workspace
Understand the three main workspace areas: the table (spreadsheet), Gantt chart, and details panel. Learn how to navigate and customise the layout to suit your scheduling needs.

Lesson 3 – Understanding the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
Explore the EPS hierarchy in P6. Learn how to organise, create, move, and delete nodes—critical for structuring your project portfolio properly.

Lesson 4 – Creating a New Project in P6
Step-by-step tutorial to create a new project in P6. Assign an EPS node, set project ID, planned start date, and review key settings in the details view.

Lessons 5 to 7: (this video)

Lesson 5 – Setting Up Calendars in P6
Learn how to set up project calendars correctly—including working days, holidays, and the difference between global and project calendars—to ensure accurate scheduling.

Lesson 6 – Building the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Construct a clear WBS hierarchy. Add, indent, or outdent WBS elements and understand parent/child relationships to organise your schedule logically.

Lesson 7 – Adding Activities in P6
Start entering your project’s activities, assign them to the appropriate WBS elements, and define activity types (milestone, task-dependent, etc.) to prepare for scheduling.

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Lesson 8 – Adding Schedule Logic in P6
Link activities using three different methods, understand the role of lag, and ensure your logic forms a complete and accurate network.

Lesson 9 – Finalising Logic and Schedule Clean-up
Ensure all activities (except start/finish milestones) have successors. Learn how to clean up your schedule and layout before moving to baseline creation.

Lesson 10 – Customising Layouts in P6
Tidy up your schedule layout. Customise columns, adjust Gantt chart settings, and save your layout as a reusable template.

Presented by Gavin Drysdale
With a background in Project Controls covering over 35 years, his experience includes mega projects in the mining, oil & gas and heavy Industries. Over the years, he worked as a Project Controls Specialist for many of the major International Companies. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering.

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