Project Management for Construction Projects: tools&techniques

Whether we talk about engineering projects of construction structures made of reinforced concrete or multistory steel structures, their management is extremely demanding, because, in their realization are involved a tremendous number of resources such as material, labor and equipment. For this reason the use of a computerized tool such as Primavera P6 EPPM or Microsoft Project Professional, it is absolutely necessary to manage these kinds of projects.

• Duration: 3 days, 6h of study/day
• Location: onsite, Infinity Business Center HQ or online

For

• Project managers, project planners, project engineers, site manager, end users

Benefits

• How to create a schedule
• Comparison Planned vs Actual , COST and TIME point of view
• How to create a supply chart
• Change Management (NCS/NR)
• Resource Management – comparison Necessary vs. Available

What you will learn

• The course will make one pass through the entire life cycle of an construction project, from planning to execution, using Primavera P6 EPPM or MS Project. You will develop a basic understanding of how to plan and monitor a project in Primavera P6 EPPM / MS Project
• Reference courses (suggested pre-requisites): PMI Project Management Methodology;

About the trainer

Eng. Dan Precupescu
• Graduate of Faculty of Civil Engineering, Industrial and Agriculture on UTCB
• Over 15 years of experience in Construction Project
• Co-Founder of Infinity Business Solutions Company in 2006
• Primavera Implementation and Development Manager within TOTALSOFT
• Active involvement in the management of over 40 construction projects at various Romanian and international companies, accumulating wide experience in areas such as:
  • Planning and monitoring construction projects
  • Risk Management in construction projects :
    • Risk identification and evaluation specific to construction projects
    • Qualitative analysis – risk prioritizing according to the impact and the probability of occurrence
    • Quantitative analysis – Monte Carlo simulations, probabilities schedule
  • Contract management
  • Resource management
  • EVM – Earned Value Management
• Primavera P6 EPPM Specialist ( ORACLE Certified Specialist )

Course structure

Getting started – Project Management

• What does a project stand for
• Triple constraints
• Project life cycle according to PMI
• Primavera’s role in Project Management

Initiation in Primavera P6 EPPM/MS Project Professional

• What is Primavera P6 EPPM
• Primavera P6 Log-in
• Layout overview
• Global data vs project-specific data

Enterprise project structure & organizational breakdown structure

• Primavera P6 Web Log-in
• Enterprise Project Strcuture
• Organisational Breakdown Structure

Creating a new project

• Creating a project calendar
• Work Breakdown Structure -Scope(EPCC)
• Defining the list of activities
• Estimating the duration of activities
• Relationships between activities
• Critical Path analysis
• Activity codes – creation of an alternative WBS
• Layout saving

Defining and assigning roles

• Define roles
• Assigning roles

Defining and assigning resources

• Define resources
• Assigning resources

Expenses

Using WSB and activities weights for project analysis

Saving the Baseline – S Curve (Time, Scope, Cost)

Progress update

• Status of activities;
• Status of resources;
• Status of Expenses;

Project Performance Reporting

• Laypout types for performance monitoring;
• S Curve analysis (Time-Scope-Cost) Planned vs Actual;

Resource management

• Management
• Planning
• Assigning
• Analysis

Primavera web – general presentation

Project portfolios in Primavera Web

• Portfolio management
• Creating a portfolio
• Managing portfolio views
• Creating User Defined Fields (UDF)
• Portfolio analysis
• Planning the required human resources / equipment

Dashboards – Reporting to Top Management

• Content
• Layout
• Access

Data import / export

• Importing projects in Primavera Web
• Exporting projects from Primavera Web

Recap of learned notions

Individual work

• Creating a new project;
• Creating the WBS;
• Creating activities (duration, relationships);
• Assigning roles/resources;
• WBS, activities weighting;
• Creating the Baseline;
• Project update;
• Performance report;

Knowledge test