Resource Management in Primavera P6

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Introduction to Resource Management in Primavera P6
3m 31s

What is Resource Management? Primavera P6 not only helps projects stay on time, but it can manage your project's resources as well. Whether people, equipment or material, P6 can track it. In this intro video to the Resource Management in Primavera P6 course, we'll set you up for what you'll learn and start by introducing the concept of Adminstrative and Strategic resource management.
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Resource Concepts
4m 22s

This lesson will introduce and explain 3 important resource concepts for working with resources in Primavera P6.
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Essential Resource Configuration Fields in Primavera P6
16m 24s

Primavera P6 has considerable power when it comes to resource management on a project or enterprise level. So it is not surprising that you have many options in setting up and configuring resources in P6. This video will take you on a tour of the Essential configuration fields for resources in P6. You'll get a clear understanding of how each field affects resource management and options for how each should be configured.
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Adding Labor Resources in Primavera P6
8m 40s

Learn how to add Labor Resources in Primavera P6 to your enterprise resource pool. This lesson will take you step-by-step through each key field that should be set up to add labor resources to your database.
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Adding Non-Labor Resources in Primavera P6
2m 49s

Learn how to add Non-Labor Resources in Primavera P6 to your enterprise resource pool. This lesson will take you step-by-step through each key field that should be set up to add non-labor resources to your Primavera database.
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Adding Material Resources in Primavera P6
3m 44s

Learn how to add Material Resources in Primavera P6 to your enterprise resource pool. This lesson will take you step-by-step through each key field that should be set up to add materials to your Primavera database.
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Understanding Resource Codes in Primavera P6
4m 56s

Resource Codes are an essential feature of Primavera P6 for managing resources, especially in an Enterprise capacity. Learn how Primavera's Resource Codes help users classify and categorize resources through information tagging.
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Adding and Administering Resource Codes in Primavera P6
3m 39s

Learn how to administer and add Resource Codes to help manage your Resource pool in Primavera P6. See applicable examples of Resource Codes you could use in your own P6 database.
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Resource-Loading A Schedule in Primavera P6
8m 31s

We all want to resource-load our Primavera P6 schedules. In this video lesson, we'll take you through the basics of assigning resources to your project's activities and we'll explain the key fields you'll need to know about. We'll also show you how to assign resources to multiple activities at the same time, for large projects and to save you time.
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Assigning Resources at the WBS Level using WBS Summary
6m 39s

Sometimes it is very appropriate to assign resources at a WBS-level in a Primavera P6 schedule. This lesson will teach you about WBS Summary activities, how to add them your schedule and how to use them for WBS-level resource loading.
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Level of Effort in Primavera P6: High-Level Resource Assignments
6m 33s

Using Level of Effort in Primavera P6, you can assign high-level resources to a group of activities. A high-level resource assignment can be easier to manage and is appropriate in many shared resource situations. Learn about Level of Effort in Primavera P6.
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Finding Resource Over-allocations in Primavera P6
11m 28s

Resource over-allocations occur when a resource or resource team has been assigned more work than they can handle. It happens all the time, so you're going to need to know how to sift through a project to find resource over-allocations and to fix them. Thankfully, Primavera P6 has some excellent tools to help. You'll learn all about those tools and how to use them in this lesson.
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Resolving Resource Over-allocations in Primavera P6
14m 42s

Learn 3 ways to resolve resource over-allocations in Primavera P6. You'll explore the pros and cons of each method and understand which methods are considered a best practice.
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Workshop: Resource Management in Primavera P6

Try this challenging workshop and hone your skills. Apply the knowledge from this course to see if you can manage resources and resource-load a schedule. Follow each step and refer to the lessons in this course for help.
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Introduction to Resource Management in Primavera P6

What is Resource Management? Primavera P6 not only helps projects stay on time, but it can manage your project's resources as well. Whether people, equipment or material, P6 can track it. In this intro video to the Resource Management in Primavera P6 course, we'll set you up for what you'll learn and start by introducing the concept of Adminstrative and Strategic resource management.

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What is Resource Management in Primavera P6? And how does Primavera help me manage my projects or my company’s resources? Those are some of the questions we’re striving to answer in this course, on Resource Management in Primavera P6.

Most of us are familiar with the concept of assigning resources to activities inside a Primavera P6 schedule but is that all there is to pre-Resource Management in Primavera?

Evidently not, there’s lots more. Like this - Graphical Resource Analysis where we can see how resources are being used and where there are peaks and values in our utilization. There’s also this - this is Portfolio Management where we can see how resources are being used across a series of projects and where they’re being allocated across an entire portfolio. There’s lots more too.

I like to break Resource Management down to two types of activities - Administrative Management and Strategic Management. Administrative Management includes some of these activities like answering the question, “What resources do I have in my company’s resource pool? What is their general availability?” as well as “How are resources set up?

Are they set up as name resources like Jim Smith or are they set up as generic resources like Plumber or Welder, or perhaps are they a mix of both?”; “How do I go ahead and add resources to my proje...

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