Primavera P6 Fundamentals Rel 19 Ed 1 — Lesson 1: EPS, OBS, Projects, WBS, Calendars, Codes, and Project Setup

Learning Objectives

• Explain the architecture, workflow, or business purpose behind enterprise project structure and organizational breakdown structure.
• Apply project creation, responsible manager, dates, defaults, and settings and work breakdown structure, control accounts, and deliverable-oriented scope in a controlled scenario.
• Validate outcomes and troubleshoot risks involving global and project calendars, activity codes, notebook topics, and setup validation.

Detailed Topics

• enterprise project structure and organizational breakdown structure
• project creation, responsible manager, dates, defaults, and settings
• work breakdown structure, control accounts, and deliverable-oriented scope
• global and project calendars, activity codes, notebook topics, and setup validation

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate enterprise project structure and organizational breakdown structure within a construction project schedule created, baselined, updated, analyzed, and communicated through a reporting cycle, then capture the exact configuration, command, transaction, report, model, query, code, or process evidence that proves the result for lesson 1.

Hands-On Exercise

Implement a controlled exercise covering project creation, responsible manager, dates, defaults, and settings and work breakdown structure, control accounts, and deliverable-oriented scope, then introduce and resolve an exception involving global and project calendars, activity codes, notebook topics, and setup validation while preserving before-and-after evidence.

1. Confirm the environment, identities, inputs, dependencies, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Complete the course-specific configuration, development, analysis, or process workflow.
3. Capture settings, commands, data, outputs, logs, reports, screenshots, calculations, or test results.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and document corrective action.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the technical or business decision that must be made.
• Compare valid approaches and their security, performance, reliability, cost, compliance, and support trade-offs.
• Define rollback, recovery, ownership, communication, and evidence requirements.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Diagnose issues across enterprise project structure and organizational breakdown structure, project creation, responsible manager, dates, defaults, and settings, work breakdown structure, control accounts, and deliverable-oriented scope, global and project calendars, activity codes, notebook topics, and setup validation without making an unverified production change. Separate symptoms from causes, gather evidence, test the smallest reversible correction, rerun validation, and record preventive action.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, dependencies, and expected result are documented.
• The result is reproducible and supported by course-specific evidence.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, performance, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• Exceptions, rollback, ownership, and the next improvement priority are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply EPS, OBS, Projects, WBS, Calendars, Codes, and Project Setup in a realistic Primavera P6 Fundamentals Rel 19 Ed 1 scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.