Construction Project Controls & BIM Report recently announced a unique mixed-media resource collection designed especially for those moving to P6 from Primavera and SureTrak.
The Essential P6 Transition Toolkit draws upon four education and training tools written by construction experts to help you master P6.
This toolkit includes:
- The P3 To Project Manager Transition Guide: this transition guide is intended to help you quickly become comfortable with using Project Manager, with the confidence that you are going to obtain the results you need with the least disturbance to your schedule efforts. Gordon Aronson has produced countless construction schedules; he knows your needs and he knows how you think. As an early user of P6 and its predecessors and as a certified trainer, Mr. Aronson is uniquely qualified to write this guide book, which provides a straightforward and practical approach to get you up and running.With over 150 full-color screen shots and illustrations, the P3-to-P6 Transition Guide will have you comfortably deploying P6 schedules without missing a beat. It would take two-day basic and advanced training classes to cover the same ground in this superb Guide. 2010 Edition (for P6 Version 7) by Gordon Aronson (130 pages, 4-color, PDF document for immediate Internet download)
- Project Planning and Control Using Primavera P6: ideal for people who would like to gain an understanding of how the software operates up to an intermediate level. It covers Primavera Versions from 3.5 to 7 and it explains some of the differences from SureTrak, P3, Microsoft Project and Asta Powerproject to assist people converting form other products. The book is designed to teach planners and schedulers in any industry how to setup and use the software in a project environment. The book provides advice on how on how the many software options may be applied to projects environments and it aims to teach readers how to plan and control projects created within the software package and stays focused on explaining how to use Primavera to schedule projects by: - Concentrating on the core functions required to set up an enterprise environment and how to plan and control projects. - Providing command lists at the start of each chapter as a quick reference. Paul Harris (378 pages, softbound printed copy, includes shipping and handling)
- Challenges and Lessons Learned with Primavera's Project Management Software: with Primavera's software releases of versions 5.0, 6.0 and Contractor in short succession, compatibility questions abound. Now that Primavera plans to phase out P3, construction schedulers need to understand how these newer versions work. This session, which covers scheduling do's and don'ts, import and export tips, documentation and more, will be particularly helpful to project control practitioners and forensic schedule analysts. Scheduling experts Sunu Mohan and Anne Marie Tombros will lead this session. Sunu Mohan and Anne Marie Tombros (90-minute recorded webinar, includes shipping and handling)
- Construction Project Controls & BIM Report: delivered monthly by email and on the Internet, this publication includes dozens of scheduling and Primavera-specific articles written by industry experts. Look up tips and techniques from past issues and keep posted on new Primavera developments that can help you be a better scheduler and get more from your schedule software applications. This publication strives to bring information on technology surrounding project controls, scheduling and building information modeling (BIM) by providing updates on new breakthroughs, products and techniques that improve construction project completion. More and more contractors are applying building information technology, building information modeling (BIM), Primavera, 3D and 4D modeling and other applications to their projects. The regular monthly subscription is priced at $377 a year.
