In this hands-on two-day workshop, attendees will complete the basics of creating and maintaining a CPM schedule through Oracle’s P6 software. Additionally, students will become familiar with industry standard scheduling best practices, including activity definition conventions, critical path integrity, and variance reporting. After completion, attendees will be able to create and maintain schedules at a professional standard for use in live construction projects.

Who Should Attend:
Project managers, superintendents, project engineers, project controllers, and anyone who would like to leverage a CPM schedule as a tool for successful project execution.

Technical Topics Covered:

• Software Installation
• Administrative Setup
• Creating a Project
• How to Update Progress
• How to Sort and Filter Data
• Baseline Comparisons
• Publishing Schedules

Practical Topics Covered:

• Translating Plans to a Schedule
• Creating a Credible Critical Path
• Schedule Health Check Resolution

Take-Home Materials Provided:

• Reference Training Manual (Hardcopy and PDF)
• A Primavera Project File (an .xer file consisting of attendee created schedule)

Product focus: Manager, Converge, Mobile
This class will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of Prolog Manager and Converge Admin Tools including setup and configuration capabilities. You will learn how to set up multiple portfolios, configure security, customize web views, set up Prolog Mobile and maximize the powerful notifications system in Converge. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions directly, share ideas with peers and practice with hands-on exercises in our training lab.

This instructor-led training class follows Adult Learning Principles, with plenty of interaction, hands-on practice, and supporting documentation to engage all learners.

Attendees learn not only from our experienced training consultants, but also from each other, sharing real life scenarios on how their companies maximize the investment in our products. Each attendee also receives a hard copy of a training manual with conceptual descriptions, workflow diagrams, step-by-step instructions for hands-on exercises and review questions to benchmark your understanding. You leave class with the confidence to take your investment to the next level for your organization.

Target Audience:

• Prolog System Administrators

Learning Objectives:

• Setup project templates and Portfolios to standardize the project startup process
• Setup company and contacts to centralize address book information
• Configure security and provide users access to control who and how can they interact with project information
• Configure security specific to Prolog Converge User Interface and provide users access to control who and how can they interact with project information
• Import standard project data to gain efficiencies
• Setup project messaging to increase project collaboration
• Configure usability preferences at portfolio, project or user level to streamline the workflow processes
• Create User Defined Fields (UDFs) to capture custom business requirements
• Create Word Processing templates for standard project communications to gain increase efficiency and accountability on the project
• Design Queries to retrieve pertinent project data for increased project controls
• Provide meaningful reporting to project members for effective decision making
• Utilize the powerful Prolog Converge notifications to increase project collaboration
• Modify Web Views to retrieve and highlight pertinent project data for increased project controls
• Configure Prolog Workflow to increase project team productivity
• Configure Prolog Mail Capture to provide efficient email tracking
• Configure Prolog File Capture to streamline document storing and management

Tooling Requirements:

You will be assigned a login to a virtual machine in our training environment, so you must have a computer with Windows OS or access to Remote Desktop Connection.

If you are not familiar with the Remote Desktop Connection, please contact the instructor prior to class to help you get set up.

What You Will Learn in this Course:

• Access and Navigation
• Project Files
• Forms & Data
• RFI's
• Drawing Management
• Submittal Management
• Meeting Minutes
• Hot Links
• Contracts
• Change Orders
• Company Setup
• Daily Field Reports
• Project Plans
• Checklists
• Material Tracking

Multiple productivity tools will be highlighted throughout the hands-on exercises. Tools covered include:

• Wizards (bid notices and punch lists)
• Insight Views
• Workflow
• Auto Email Notification
• Linking Prolog Records
• Word Merging
• Query Manager
• Report Manager

Who Should Take this Course:

This course was designed for Trimble Buildings clients, partners, employees, and college professors who need to understand:

• The benefits of using Prolog
• Options for business applications
• Configuration capabilities

Prerequisites:

• Basic computer skills
• An understanding of the AEC industry

This three-day hands-on course provides an in-depth look at creating and maintaining all types of Prolog Converge notifications, notification best practices, and tips and tricks for troubleshooting. Upon completion of this course you will be able to consult on and create, deploy, and troubleshoot all types of Prolog Converge notifications including:

• The ability to define notification rules
• The ability to create new notification report content
• The ability to configure distribution lists and contracts for notifications
• Understanding when to apply different notification types
• The ability to setup user-triggered notifications
• The ability to setup Monitor Data Change notifications
• The ability to publish repors on a schedule
• The ability to add UDFs to Web Biews
• The ability to modify the Project and Portfolio Summary logic

Who Should Take this Course:

This course is ideal for those who will be making decisions regarding implementation and configuration of Prolog Converge.

Prerequisites:

• Successfully completion of the Prolog Converge Administration course
• Experience using and administering Prolog Manager and Prolog Connect
• Basic experience writing reports
• A basic understanding of the Prolog SQL database table structure
• The ability to create basic SQL query statements
• An understanding of the AEC industry
• Knowledge of your company's business processes and procedures