S & R Associates, Inc.

S & R Associates, Inc. provides the following project management training courses:

Course 101 - Project Management in P6 Web
Provides hands-on training for Primavera’s Web-based solution. Participants will create a project, create activities and relationships, customize activity views, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and overallocated resources, and analyze portfolios. Participants also will customize dashboards. Hands-on workshops help students create and track an entire project to completion.

Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers
Course length: 3 days
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Fundamental project management training, knowledge of MS Windows Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 19.5 PDUs and 1.95 CEUs

Course 102 – Project Management in P6 Client-Server
Provides hands-on training for Primavera’s client/server-based solution, leading participants through the entire project life cycle, from planning to execution. Topics include adding activities, assigning resources, and creating a baseline. Participants also will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling. All workshops and instruction stress the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resource and costs.

Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers, Planners/Schedulers
Course length: 3 days
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Fundamental project management training, knowledge of MS Windows
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 19.5 PDUs and 1.95 CEUs

Course 106A – P6 Administration
This course provides guidance on setting up enterprise data in P6 Client-Server and P6 Web, including the creation of calendars, project codes, activity codes, and resource codes. Also covers how to set up users and processes to establish security.

Targeted roles: P6 System Administrators
Course length: 1 day
Course level: Advanced
Prerequisite: Course 102
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 6.5 PDUs and .65 CEUs

Course 106-P – Advanced Project Management in P6 Client-Server
Provides in-depth project management training in P6 client-server-based solution, building off skills learned in the basic course (102). Topics include earned value analysis, updating baselines, importing and exporting project data, and top-down budgeting.

Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers, Administrators, Planners/Schedulers.
Course length: 2 days
Course level: Advanced
Prerequisite: Course 102
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 13 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs

Course 106-R – Resource Management in P6 Client-Server
Provides in-depth resource management training in Primavera’s client/server-based solution. Building off skills learned in the basic course (102), the 106-R course covers advanced topics in managing resource allocation, future-period bucket planning, and resource leveling. Extended case studies at the end of each day provide an opportunity to apply new skills and functionality.

Targeted roles: Resource Managers, Project Managers
Course length: 2 days
Course level: Advanced
Prerequisite: Course 102
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 13 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs

Course 107 – Resource Management in P6 Web
Provides hands-on training in P6 Web, focusing on resource management. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of resource management by adding a resource to the enterprise resource pool; planning for resource needs in future projects; staffing resources on current projects; and managing resources to ensure they are fully utilized. Workshops provide an opportunity to apply new skills and functionality.

Targeted roles:Resource Managers, Project Managers
Course length: 1.5 to 2 days
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Course 101 recommended but not required
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 13.5 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs

Course 108 – Migrating from P3 to P6
This course is specially designed for users moving from Primavera Project Planner (P3) to P6. Numerous charts list how P3 fields and functionality map to Primavera 5.0/6.0, enabling users to leverage their existing knowledge of P3 and rapidly adapt to new features in P6. The course begins with navigation, menus, and terminology in P6, and introduces new ways to view layouts and run reports. The course also details how basic tasks in the project management life cycle are executed in P6, including how to create activities, assign and analyze resources, and update the project plan. An appendix at the back of the manual covers how to convert projects from P3 to P6. (Please note that this course is designed for existing users of P3. Those who wish to learn Primavera P6, but are not P3 users, should register for Course 102.)

Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers, Planners/Schedulers who are using P3.
Course length: 2 days
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Course 601 or knowledge of P3
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 13 PDUs or 1.3 CEUs

Course 109 - Portfolio Management in P6 Web
Provides hands-on training on managing portfolios in P6 Web. Topics include creating a portfolio, viewing and analyzing portfolio performance, creating portfolio views, capacity planning, waterline analysis, and managing issues and risks. A case study at the end of the day reinforces new skills and functionality.

Targeted roles: Program Managers, Project Managers, Executives
Course length: 1 day
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Course 101 recommended but not required
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 6.5 PDUs and .65 CEUs

Course P100/T100
Get started with Methodology Manager through hands-on, basic training. Participants will gain a thorough background in administering their methodologies and the concepts of building methodologies in Methodology Manager. This one-day course leads you through hands-on workshops to assist you in building and maintaining methodologies.

Course level: Basic
NOTE: This is a standard, software functionality-based class. Industry specific offerings/examples are not included in standard classes.

Course CM100 - Primavera Cost Manager
This two-day course is an introduction to Primavera’s cost management solution. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of how to improve project results through more accurate tracking and forecasting of project performance.

Course level: Basic
Targeted roles: Cost Analysts, Financial Managers
Additional audiences: Existing cost management module users. Those who need to work with financial data for reporting and tracking performance purposes.
Note: This is a standard, software functionality-based class. Industry specific offerings/examples are not included in standard classes.

Course 700 - Primavera Contractor
This course provides hands-on training for contractors. It examines how to plan, schedule, control, and analyze projects.

Course level: Basic
Targeted roles: Contractors
Additional audiences: Existing Primavera Contractor users

Course 601 - Planning and Scheduling with Primavera Project Planner® (P3®)
Get started with P3 through hands-on, basic training. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling while learning P3. This three-day course leads you through nine hands-on workshops that create and track an entire project to completion, using the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resources, and costs. Scheduling techniques will be covered.

Course level: Basic
Audience: P3 Users

Course 602 - Resource & Cost Analysis with Primavera Project Planner® (P3®)
This one-day course will enable you to take full advantage of driving resources, resource curves, hierarchical resources, resource profiles/tables and resource leveling. Learn resource calendars for planning and control and Rich Text Format reports for status reporting. Participants will develop, update, and track resources and costs using a series of hands-on workshops.

Course level: Advanced
Audience: P3 Users

Course 603 - Managing Project Data with Primavera Project Planner® (P3®)
This one-day hands-on training course will take you beyond the fundamentals of scheduling a project by transferring project data through copy and paste, storing and retrieving fragnets, and using import and export. In addition, global change, and custom data items will be used to modify activity data. Learn to enhance your presentation by including objects and symbols and post this information on your company intranet using the Web Publishing Wizard. You will become proficient at using the power of P3 for maximum control of your projects.

Course level: Advanced
Audience: P3 Users

604 - Creating Reports and Graphics with Primavera Project Planner® (P3®)
This one day course provides you with an overview of the tabular and graphical reporting capabilities in P3. You will be creating schedule reports, resource and cost reports as well as P3 presentation quality graphics. Hands-on workshops will provide you the framework for creating each type of report and graphic.

Course level: Advanced
Audience: P3 Users

Course 401 - Introduction To SureTrak® Project Manager
This course provides a comprehensive overview of SureTrak Project Manager for Windows. It examines how to use SureTrak for project planning, scheduling, control and analysis.

Course level: Basic
Audience: SureTrak Users

Introduction to Planning & Scheduling
This two-day course was developed by S & R Associates, Inc. to introduce, refresh and/or augment your Planning & Scheduling skills. Through facilitation, lectures, and group exercises, students will learn how to develop and control the scope and schedule of a typical project. Topics and workshops include: Project Life Cycle Analysis; Project Management Roles and Responsibilities; Risk Analysis and Management; Scope Definition and Management; Basic Scheduling Tools and Techniques; Advanced Scheduling Tools and Techniques; Monitoring and Managing the Baseline.

Course level: Basic
Audience: Program Managers, Project Managers, Planners/Schedulers

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