Primavera P6 Training for Beginners in Lebanon

Primavera P6 Training for Beginners – Learn Project Scheduling from Scratch

Start your project management journey with a beginner-friendly Primavera P6 course at ETC Lebanon. Learn the fundamentals of scheduling, create a simple project with WBS and activities, run the schedule, update progress, and present reports—guided by practical, hands-on labs.

Duration: 20 hours

Teaching Methodology: Hands-on, step-by-step labs

Course Schedule: Schedule

Fees: $350

Course Mode: Blended – Face-to-face or online via Zoom

DESCRIPTION

This beginner-friendly Primavera P6 course teaches you how to plan, schedule, and monitor small projects from scratch. You will create a simple WBS, add activities and relationships, run the schedule (CPM), update progress, and produce clear stakeholder reports.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Navigate the Primavera P6 interface and customize basic layouts.
  • Create a new project with calendars, WBS, activities, and relationships.
  • Run the schedule, understand float and the critical path at a basic level.
  • Update progress using dates and percent complete; reschedule and review changes.
  • Format views and print/export simple reports for stakeholders.

PREREQUISITES

Microsoft Excel Beginner to Advanced course, or possess equivalent Excel proficiency.

COURSE CONTENTS

01 - INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  • What is a project? Scope, time, cost, quality, resources
  • Gantt charts, milestones, and the idea of critical path (simple)
  • PM tools landscape: Primavera vs. MS Project (overview)
  • How schedules support real projects in construction/engineering

02 - GETTING STARTED WITH PRIMAVERA P6

  • Access/installation notes (standalone vs. server environment)
  • User interface tour: menus, tables, Gantt, activity details
  • Layouts and basic customization
  • Projects, EPS/OBS terms explained at a beginner level

03 - CREATING A SIMPLE PROJECT

  • New project wizard: start/finish, calendars
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): purpose and best practices
  • Creating WBS elements and organizing the project
  • Intro to project/activity codes at a basic level

04 - ACTIVITIES & RELATIONSHIPS

  • Activity types and attributes (task, milestone)
  • Adding activities and setting durations
  • Relationships: FS, SS, FF; using simple lags/leads
  • Network logic view basics

05 - SCHEDULING & CRITICAL PATH (BASICS)

  • Scheduling (F9): data date and recalculation
  • Understanding total/free float (beginner level)
  • Identifying the critical path and near-critical activities
  • Simple constraints: when and how to use

06 - TRACKING PROGRESS & REPORTS

  • Updating with actual start/finish and % complete
  • Rescheduling and reviewing impacts
  • Formatting layouts, filters, and grouping
  • Printing/exporting simple reports and Gantt views

07 - FINAL HANDS-ON MINI PROJECT

  • Build a small, end-to-end schedule “Organizing a Wedding”
  • Build a small construction schedule – “Residential Villa”
  • Create WBS, add activities and logic, schedule, and update
  • Update project progress (percent complete and actuals)
  • Prepare a simple progress report and export a PDF