Primavera P6 Professional Advanced Rel 19 Ed 1 — Lesson 2: Resource and Cost Optimization

Technical Scope

• resource curves, roles, rates, and time-phased demand
• leveling priorities, limits, over-allocation analysis, and alternatives
• expense planning, cost accounts, funding limits, and cash-flow profiles
• scenario comparison, decision criteria, approved adjustments, and revalidation

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor will configure and verify resource curves, roles, rates, and time-phased demand in the context of a complex capital program requiring defensible schedule logic, resource decisions, performance forecasts, and recovery options. The demonstration captures commands, configuration, transactions, output, logs, plans, or screenshots that prove both the intended behavior and the control boundary.

Applied Workshop

Learners complete a controlled exercise covering leveling priorities, limits, over-allocation analysis, and alternatives and expense planning, cost accounts, funding limits, and cash-flow profiles, then introduce a realistic exception involving scenario comparison, decision criteria, approved adjustments, and revalidation. They record assumptions, exact steps, expected and observed results, a reversible correction, and the evidence required for operational acceptance.

1. Confirm scope, identities, data, dependencies, controls, and expected result.
2. Perform the product-specific configuration, development, analysis, or business-process task.
3. Capture reproducible technical or transaction evidence and compare it with the expected value.
4. Explain the operational, security, performance, data-quality, or business trade-off.

Validation Standard

Acceptance for Resource and Cost Optimization requires the result to be reproducible, traceable to approved inputs, consistent with the relevant Oracle or platform behavior, and supported by checks for security, data integrity, reliability, performance, and recoverability.

• The intended target, scope, and ownership are verified.
• Expected-value and negative-path checks pass.
• Security, reliability, performance, data quality, and support impacts are reviewed.
• Unexpected behavior is resolved before acceptance.

Failure Analysis

When the result differs from expectation, learners isolate the smallest proven cause across resource curves, roles, rates, and time-phased demand, leveling priorities, limits, over-allocation analysis, and alternatives, expense planning, cost accounts, funding limits, and cash-flow profiles; they avoid speculative production changes, preserve evidence, apply the lowest-risk correction, rerun the test, and document prevention.

Practical Outcome

Complete and defend a validated result for Resource and Cost Optimization with a reusable implementation record or runbook.