Construction Planning & Scheduling Using Primavera P6 — Lesson 4: Baselines, Progress, Earned Value, Delay Analysis, Reporting, and Recovery Planning

Learning Objectives

• Assess the Oracle objects, services, rules, reports, interfaces, or code used in baselines, progress, earned value, delay analysis, reporting, and recovery planning.
• Operate a hands-on implementation or diagnostic sequence without bypassing approvals.
• Resolve reproducibility by comparing expected and actual evidence.

Detailed Topics

• Baselines
• Progress
• Earned Value
• Delay Analysis
• Reporting
• Recovery Planning
• ownership, prerequisites, data, and acceptance criteria for baselines, progress, earned value, delay analysis, reporting, and recovery planning
• security, control, integration, performance, recovery, and support implications

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate baselines, progress, earned value, delay analysis, reporting, and recovery planning within a construction project scheduled from scope and logic through resource planning, progress control, delay analysis, and recovery. Use representative data and capture earned-value indicators, recovery scenarios so another practitioner can verify the result.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled Construction Planning & Scheduling Using Primavera P6 activity focused on baselines, progress, earned value, delay analysis, reporting, and recovery planning. Introduce a realistic case of incorrect calendars, isolate the cause, apply a reversible correction, and rerun the acceptance checks.

1. Record the requirement, environment, identities, dependencies, data, controls, and expected result.
2. Perform the workflow and capture course-specific evidence before and after each material change.
3. Test normal, boundary, failure, security, reconciliation, recovery, and operational conditions.
4. Document the root cause, correction, rollback, owner, support action, and next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Map the end-to-end flow from source input through Oracle processing to the final output.
• Locate the control point most likely to prevent or expose incorrect calendars.
• Recommend monitoring, escalation, and handover requirements for production support.

Troubleshooting Guidance

When baselines, progress, earned value, delay analysis, reporting, and recovery planning does not produce the expected result, confirm scope, effective dates, identities, data context, dependencies, and recent changes. Review the most relevant earned-value indicators, recovery scenarios before editing configuration. Test one reversible hypothesis at a time, verify recovery, and confirm that the fix does not create incorrect calendars elsewhere.

Validation Checklist

• Prerequisites, ownership, data context, settings, and expected outcomes are documented.
• The result is reproducible and supported by earned-value indicators, recovery scenarios.
• Security, controls, data quality, integration, performance, recovery, and support conditions are reviewed.
• Exceptions, corrective action, rollback, approvals, monitoring, and handover are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Baselines, Progress, Earned Value, Delay Analysis, Reporting, and Recovery Planning in a realistic Construction Planning & Scheduling Using Primavera P6 situation and defend the result with course-specific evidence.