Primavera P6 Essential Training is a practical, beginner-friendly course designed to help you understand and use Primavera P6 for professional project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control. Whether you are a student, fresh graduate, project planner, engineer, construction professional, or someone looking to build a career in project management, this course will give you a strong foundation in one of the most widely used project scheduling tools. In this course, you will learn how to create and manage projects in Primavera P6, develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), add activities, define relationships, create calendars, assign resources, and build a professional project schedule. You will also learn how to establish a baseline and use it to compare planned work with actual project progress.
The course starts with the fundamentals so that beginners can follow along comfortably. You will become familiar with the Primavera P6 interface, important menus, project settings, layouts, and basic scheduling concepts. Step by step, you will progress toward creating a complete project schedule and understanding how different project components work together. A major focus of the course is practical project scheduling. You will learn how to define activities, set durations, create logical relationships such as Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish, and Start-to-Finish, and use scheduling features to identify the critical path. Understanding these concepts is essential for anyone working in project planning and project controls.
You will also learn about resources and costs. The course introduces resource assignment, resource planning, and basic cost management concepts so you can understand how manpower, equipment, materials, and other resources can be incorporated into a project schedule.






