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Ok, today is the 4th of March 2014 and I will be reviewing, relearning, self-studying all tediously Project Planning and Control or I simply call it Scheduling.  Well, I call it scheduling.  When I worked in Kabul, Afghanistan, I only hear "schedulers" and when I got back here in the Philippines, it's "planners". I like schedulers more because the pay is higher compared to planners. That's a joke! But I hope one day salary here in the Philippines will be more globally competitive than now.

Anyway, schedulers or planners use many tools in their works. Well, I know a very few tools because I have been exposed to them for a very short while... MS Project, P3 and of course P6.  I will be self-studying Primavera P6, that is, P6 version 6.0.  I could not install the P6 version 7.0 so yeah, this tutorial will not have that version 7.0 or I'll try again to install it and see what I can do.  Anyway, what I'm studying is applicable to Primavera version 4 to 7.  

While working here in the Philippines as a planner, I got really interested in this new line of work and I thought I could be one who can be very reliable when it comes to project scheduling and so here I am re-studying bit by bit the the P6 scheduling tool which is what we actually use at work so that I also have a good background to it.  I used to work on MS Project and P3 in Kabul and I'll deal with that later. Right now, it's P6 time.

Now to start lesson proper...

P6 is also called Primavera Enterprise. 

Planning is done to ensure that project will be delivered both on time and within budget.

Planning is also done to create a model which enables planners to predict which activities and resources are critical to the timely completion of the project.

Baseline or Target is a copy of the original schedule/plan and is used in comparing progress of an updated schedule.

Earlier versions of Primavera were limited to 50 baselines only.

Next lesson is coming up in just a bit.

Reference:

Project Planning and Control Using Primavera Version 7.0 by Paul E. Harris

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