Primavera P6 Training Brisbane
2-Day Fundamentals Training Course
Oracle Primavera P6: Beyond the Basic, Straight to Business Advantage
Transform the Way You Plan and Deliver Projects
Accelerate your ability to deploy P6 as a core business tool for creating, managing, and tracking your projects.
Delivered in Brisbane, this 2-day Primavera P6 Fundamentals course is your strategic entry point to explore the core functions of P6 in depth, moving beyond the software basics and helping you master the full project lifecycle. Gain the confidence to build robust plans, perform insightful analysis, and report progress with precision and purpose.
By the end of the course, you won’t just understand project planning, you’ll be actively shaping project outcomes using P6 in your professional setting. Whether you’re new to project management technology or refining existing skills, you will develop sharper skills in planning, analysis, and progress tracking that can redefine your project outcomes.
Choose the style of learning that suits your needs
Classroom
Online
In-house
(Groups 5+)
Primavera P6 Training Dates For Brisbane
Join our training sessions online from anywhere across Australia
2-Day Primavera P6 Fundamentals Training Dates
2,250 per person inc GST
Live Virtual
2026
Jan 21 & 22
Feb 18 & 19
Mar 18 & 19
Apr 22 & 23
May 20 & 21
Jun 17 & 18
Jul 15 & 16
Aug 19 & 20
Sep 16 & 17
Oct 14 & 15
Nov 11 & 12
Nov 25 & 26 Brisbane classroom
Dec 01 & 02
Full set of Manuals with Screenshots
- Post course support
Catering for classroom training
We offer In-House & Online Primavera P6 Training for:
Primavera P6 Fundamentals Course (2 Day)
- Primavera P6 Advanced Course (2 Day)
Regional WA – Groups of 5+
Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Darwin – Groups of 5+
Need Advanced P6 Training?
Construction Training Rebates Available!
The CTF provides funding support for training of eligible workers in the construction industry in WA. We acknowledge the support of the CTF in reducing the costs of training for eligible workers.
Get ready with a hands-on program that strips away the complexity of P6 and prepares for accelerated integration of P6 into your operational workflow.
To really understand how P6 affects project outcomes in the real world, go beyond menus and functions. The Oracle Primavera P6 Fundamentals Course turns theory into skill over the course of two focused days. This two-day fundamentals course will make you an expert, turning you from a passive learner into an active user who can fully control your project portfolio.
By the end of the course, you will be able to make strategies for building project plans, managing projects proactively, and keeping track of progress that can be put into action.
P6 Fundamentals Course Outline
- Significance of having a schedule.
- Approaches and methods for scheduling.
- Types of Schedules
- Prepare the layouts for printing to display your schedule.
- We print the various reports that need to accompany the schedule.
- Construct a project independently using all the knowledge gained.
- You’ll be impressed by just how much you’ve mastered!
Analyse your plan by demonstrating the use of filtering, grouping, and activity codes, and by developing Look Ahead reports and resource workplans.
- Identify Critical Path to improve the management of your project reports.
- Conduct the primary checks in accordance with the DCMA standards of best practice.
- Establish the global components prior to commencing the program:
- Organisational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
- Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
- Global Calendars
- Adopt a logical and concise method for creating a schedule.
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Define Activities, Duration and Relationships.
- Create and assign activity codes
- Create and assign resources
- Develop S-Curve, resource histogram and cashflow
- Explore methods to swiftly reorganise and restructure the schedule utilising Activity Codes.
- This is a beneficial for different audiences to review such site managers vs subcontractors.
- Monitor and maintain the project schedule by demonstrating how to set up for tracking progress.
- Monitor the techniques for documenting real progress compared to the baseline and illustrate methods to capture or log this data
Provided on the Primavera Course
- Notepad and pen
- Primavera Course manual
- Training laptops with Primavera P6 installed
- Primavera Course certificate
- Lunch and refreshments
“We’ll show you the effective way to use Primavera P6 to plan and track your projects, improve project controls and achieve great project outcomes.”
Brett Anderson
Project Management Professional, Trainer, Director – Successful Projects
Testimonials
A really good course. I have learnt a lot. It’s a good pace and has a practise session. I can navigate around P6 with confidence.
As someone who has never used P6, this was exactly what I needed to use confidently at works.
Very detailed and easy to follow instructions. Step by Step look into P6. I will be able to create new project schedules and maintain them.
Very informative and detailed. It will assist me to setup our next program correctly to mitigate issues.
It’s added more indepth knowledge. I only had the basics and this gave me detailed scheduling.
Spoil yourself
Not only will this course be the best course you’ve ever been on, but you’ll also experience the best catering and barista coffees.
Primavera P6 Training FAQs
Primavera P6, as a leading project management tool in Australia and globally, is not by chance. It is trusted by organisations around the world to bring order and clarity to a project from concept to completion. The software provides tools and structure to handle projects with precision, across the entire project lifecycle, aligning with the needs of diverse teams. Its standout features include:
- Scheduling
- Resource and cost control management
- Risk management
- Contract management
- Reporting
Primavera P6 is not just a scheduling tool; it’s far more than a platform for creating Gantt charts. Primavera P6 delivers advanced capabilities such as critical path analysis, resource leveling, and earned value management.
Here’s a look at its core feature:
- Scheduling – Primavera P6 changes the way scheduling works by letting activities be built at specific levels of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). It lets activities connect directly, turning separate tasks into a plan that is all connected. P6 quickly puts the project structure in place by turning the activity list from a simple spreadsheet into a legally sound WBS hierarchy.
- Resource and cost control management – This function isn’t just for budgeting; it keeps track of costs, expenses, and unit rates for activities. It gives project teams the ability to compare planned costs to actual results, which shows how well the project is really going in real time.
- Risk management – This feature does more than just make managing risks easier; it also helps identify, rank, and assign risks to specific activities, and it lets you do a full risk analysis for both projects and individual tasks.
- Contract management – The contract management capability in Primavera P6 elevates document control to a new level, enabling you to monitor requests for information, submittals, approvals, issues, and changes — along with their direct impact on the project schedule.
- Reporting – Primavera P6 transforms reporting from routine to strategic, giving you the flexibility to draw on its library of built-in reports or design customised ones tailored precisely to your project’s needs.
There has never been a greater need for accurate and reliable planning. Project teams are under more and more pressure to get things done quickly as designs change, scopes grow, and deadlines get shorter. Companies want to be proactive, executives want to see everything in real time, and distributed teams want to work together without any problems. To meet these goals, project and programme managers today need a tool that gives them accurate information to help them stay on budget and on time.
Primavera P6 is what makes the difference. It gives organisations that work on projects the tools they need to confidently handle everything from simple tasks to very complicated programmes. It gives you real-time, end-to-end visibility, which helps you make better portfolio decisions and understand how much work and resources you have available.
The tool lets you fully weigh the risks and rewards of a project by combining features for collaboration and control. This makes sure that projects are finished on time, within budget, and to the expected standards. Its ability to integrate with other systems makes sure that everything runs smoothly across the company. Primavera P6 has two versions of its software, both versions of the Primavera suite provide foundational project management, resource, and scheduling functionalities; these are:
- Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (P6 EPPM) – operates through a web browser, delivering the full software suite and catering to larger organisations that manage planning and administration online. It supports both Android and iOS devices, providing greater flexibility than its desktop counterpart.
- Primavera P6 Professional Project Management (P6 PPM) – functions as a desktop application installed on Windows laptops, where planning and administration happen locally via the Primavera P6 professional client connected to a database.
The main difference between the two is how they are delivered. P6 EPPM is a web-based platform, while P6 PPM is a stand-alone application that you install directly on your computer. They both have similar features, but P6 EPPM is more popular with IT teams because it is easy to set up. P6 PPM is more popular with power users who value speed and reliability.
Successful Projects teaches the Primavera P6 Professional Project Management (P6 PPM) desktop/client version
You’ll learn how to:
- Schedule projects
- Adjust project schedules
- Execute and control projects
- Improve your knowledge on project management principles
- Assign resources
Examples of the topics included in our courses are:
- Critical path planning (which is crucial for beginners to learn)
- Understand more about this project management technique
- Generating your own closed network
- Exploring forward and backward pass
And here are the course objectives that you will learn with Successful Projects:
- Understanding data structures
- Creating a project
- Creating a work breakdown structure
- Adding activities
- Viewing calendars
- Creating relationships
- Assigning constraints
- Formatting schedule data
- Defining roles and resources
- Optimizing the project plan
- Creating reports
- Executing the project
Successful Projects offers the most complete Primavera P6 training available, covering all parts of project delivery, from engineering to procurement and contract management.
There is a lot of information about Primavera P6 online, but not many courses are as accurate and experienced as ours. We take away the need to look for unreliable online sources by offering an immersive, single-source learning course that is professionally tailored by industry experts who have already used P6 to achieve commercial success and who have used this top project management software and seen results.
Call us today to start your Primavera P6 journey if you’re ready to take your project planning and management to the next level.
The main advantages of deploying Primavera P6 are:
- mandates commercial certainty by eliminating project risk exposure and schedule overruns.
- enforces project execution control from preparation through to delivery.
- optimises capital and resource allocation for maximum commercial return.
- delivers auditable, real-time insight into critical project health.
- facilitates rapid, reliable financial forecasting across the WBS and assignments.
- measures and validates past period efficiency for robust credit and performance reporting.
- enables unified data integrity and communication across global business units.
- instantly defines project execution logic via the Work Breakdown Structure.
- streamlines operational collaboration among assignment stakeholders.
- provides sophisticated, graphic output for executive decision-making visibility.
- provides the ability to search multiple columns with improved document support and default webpage configuration.
- offers advanced search and document support for improved information retrieval and control.
- XML capabilities ensure precise control over imported global data for rigorous contractor and supplier collaboration.
Used widely in Australia and internationally, Primavera P6 leads as the preferred software for managing projects, programmes, and portfolios in large enterprises. That’s why major organisations expect their teams to be adept with it. If you want to:
- Project management career advancement
- Master a highly valued and well-rewarded skillset
- Gain greater control over your projects
- Improve project delivery and outcomes
- Access one of Australia’s leading training programs
Your search ends here. Our courses are tailored to make you proficient in Primavera P6 and simplify your work. See for yourself why Primavera P6 is a standout in project management software.
