PROJECT CONTROLS & RISK ANALYSIS TRAINING
Crescent is able to offer training in Pertmaster and Primavera software using its own resources or will manage training in other/client venues. The standard courses offered by Crescent are:
- 1 and 2 day Project Risk Analysis using Pertmaster Project Risk software
- 2 day Primavera SureTrak Project Manager and
- 2-3 day Primavera Project Planner P3 (depending on scope)
PROJECT RISK ANALYSIS USING PERTMASTER PROJECT RISK
Crescent provides one and two day training courses on risk analysis.
Bring projects in on time and budget using project risk analysis.
This course is aimed those who can plan a project and would like to progress further to modelling project risk. The course provides "hands-on" exercises for quantitative risk modelling in Pertmaster Project Risk, including:
- Schedule risk analysis theory
- Using three-point estimates
- Using alternate distributions
- Correlation
- Probabilistic branching and events
- Criticality and cruciality
- Interpreting the results
- Integrated cost and time risk analysis
- Integration with Primavera (P3/SureTrak & P3e/TeamPlay) and MS
- Project software
Start: 09.00 Finish: 17.00 with time to address additional topics as required.
Two day courses are recommended to provide thorough coverage of the software and its use with other planning software. The training assumes familiarity with the basics of critical path method planning.
A PDF of the Table of Contents is available for the two day Pertmaster training course, instructing users on how to work with Pertmaster, integrating it with all types of Primavera software.
SURETRAK AND P3 TRAINING COURSE PHILOSOPHY
The SureTrak training is delivered in two one day sessions and the P3 in two or three one day sessions (depending on the scope and level of detail of the course desired). The courses should be run with four to six students, with a maximum of eight. Up to twelve people can be trained in the one group, but individual attention is reduced and the full range of student capabilities is less satisfactorily covered. By the end of the first day the students will gain sufficient skills to create, status and print a project using SureTrak or P3 without resources or costs. The first day may be sufficient for casual users. At the end of the second day the student will gain skills necessary to understand the resources and costs features of SureTrak or P3. The third day of the P3 course covers the advanced features of P3 which are not available in SureTrak.
It is suggested that "Standard Project Templates and Scheduling Procedures" could be written to suit your company's method of working. These templates and procedures would be acknowledged in the course and the student exercises would be examples from your current projects. The course would therefore be more relevant to the students than standard software vendor exercises.
SURETRAK AND P3 TRAINING COURSE CONTENT
Day One
The purpose of this day is to provide the students with a method for planning and controlling projects using the Primavera SureTrak software. At the end of the day, the students will be able to:
- Understand the principles of planning
- Create a project
- Create multiple calendars
- Add activities to a project
- Link activities with logic
- Schedule the project
- Use standard methods of coding – from the your templates
- Layouts
- Logic and constraints
- Monitor a project
- Update the schedule
- Compare actual progress with planned
- Define corrective action
Day Two
The purpose of this day is to provide the student with the necessary knowledge to work with resources and costs and have an understanding of the more advanced facilities in the software.At the end of the day the students will have an understanding of:
- Outlining, WBS Codes and Activity ID’s
- Project Utilities, Customize and Options
- Creating resource dictionaries
- Adding resources to activities
- Creating and using resources calendars
- Using activity types and driving resources
- Displaying and understand Histograms & S-Curves
- Statusing projects with resources
Day Three - P3 Only
- Resource levelling
- Import and export to other software packages
- Global change
- Custom data items
- Working with Project Groups
TRAINING MATERIAL
The training material consists of a training manual that the student keeps as a reference manual and tutorials that are completed during the class. The tutorials could be tailored to suit your organisation and be examples of your current work.
FEES - EXCLUDING GST
- The fee structure is:
- Training per day for class size up to eight students $1,500.00 per day
- Training manuals $120.00 per student
- Writing specific templates and training exercises $150.00/hr
- One to one training $150.00/hr
- Expenses at cost
- Travel time at $1,500 per day if travel to/from site cannot be done on day of training (minimum half-day)
FACILITIES
Crescent can provide:
- Training facility for up to four trainees
- Training material
- Lunches and morning and afternoon refreshments
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Should you wish to conduct the training at an external location, a training room can be hired from a training facility of your choice
Clients can host training by providing:
- Training room
- Computers loaded with training software (Crescent can load this the day before the training)
- Whiteboard and pens
- Data projector (Crescent can provide if client cannot)
- Lunches and refreshments
More information can be obtained by contacting pertmaster@crescent-pss.com or by telephoning (03) 9544 2900.
