Workshop on PRIMAVERA P6 EPPM

J.Joshuva Alexander, Jindal Global Business School, Sonipat, Haryana.

(E-mail: jos237@gmail.com, Mobile: +91 8053464429)

About CADD Centre:

CADD Centre is the Asia’s largest CAD Company partnership with Primavera Systems Inc., the world's leading project and portfolio management software Company in August 2007. This CADD Centre is fully geared up to provide advanced courses on Primavera with certified instructors. They also having franchise-based training centers for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), offers over 100 courses for students and working professionals of Mechanical, Civil, Electrical & Electronics engineering, Architecture, and Project Management disciplines. They focus on industry-institute partnership initiatives, their courses are constantly updated with industry inputs on CAD, CAE, Graphics and Project Management. The services of CADD include CAD Training, CAD Software sales, full scale monochrome and color scanners, A0 LED printers, document management and software development.

They have successfully trained about 7,00,000 professionals from diverse engineering, graphic and management backgrounds. They are also preferred training partner of more than 4500 corporate houses in India and abroad.

 About the workshop

Group photo with Senior Instructor, CADD Center, Dwarka



It was a one day workshop, started with the brief introduction about the industry standard concepts of project management and tools and techniques being used by the organizations. The instructor explained the pros and cons of using Microsoft Excel and the extent it could be employed in the project management. Having said so he took our attention towards the Microsoft Project software explained its features, he also highlighted that Microsoft project is more user friendly and compared with that of Microsoft excel. He further went on to give detail illustration on Primavera, its present version and it’s superiority over its previous versions

At the end of the day each one of us was provided with primavera P6 software installed computers were given a sample assignment to get hands on training mode.

 Learning’s from the workshop:

•  Primavera P6 EPPM (Enterprise Project Portfolio Management) is now the product of Oracle.
• It provides 100% web based solution for managing projects of any size, and adapts to various levels of complexity across projects.
• It provides executives with a real time view of their organization.
• Primavera P6 EPPM easily scale from a single user on a small project to 10,000 of users engaged in Millions of activities.
• It can be used through desktop computers, laptops, or through cloud computing. It also has application for iphone and ipad.
• The software is used for planning executing and monitoring of projects.
• This software has the ability to allocate human resource with the project online. And we can monitor every individual work allocated or completed. Normalizing of work distribution can be seen very well through different graphs. Therefore it enhances the maximum utility of the individual without over loading of work.  
• Time sheets in Primavera is used as tracking tool to gain insights into costs and resource use.
• We can generate a report and analytics with proper charts which would drive us to make sound decisions and gives updates of value mapping of the project cost.
• Along with the project schedule, we can allocate the required human resources with their working hours and cost per hour. This helps resource manage to identify and allocate the required number of people at right time at right cost.
• In primavera the calendar is based on days and not by dates. This would help to us to generate a holiday list according to the company norms. The festive holidays has to be done manually for all the years estimated in a project. As dates are not fixed for every month or year, but the days are fixed (Monday-Sunday).
• We can create a security profiles. Now the security can be set at every level of work. Who can see the project, who can edit the project, which can only input and generate data. There are few areas where only top management can take decision. So multi-level Security can be setup for the data protection and validation.
• As primavera is effective but costly software so only 8% to 10% of companies are using Primavera in India and nearly 12% of companies are using MS Project.

In a nutshell it was a small step towards excelling in the field of project management and its supportive tool PRIMAVERA P6 EPPM.

Acknowledgement:

I would like to acknowledge the immense effort of Prof. Saroj Koul, Octaphi club advisor/Mentor for given this opportunity to us to learn about Primavera and I am thankful to Octaphi Operations Management Club members and other enthusiasts from JGBS for participating this workshop.