After the course, the book may be used by the students as a reference book. The book has been written to be used as the basis for a two-day training course and includes exercises for the students to complete at the end of each chapter. It includes exercises, a large number of screen dumps, numerous tips and an index. It presents workable solutions to real day to day planning and scheduling problems and contains practical advice on how to set up the software and import data. This book draws on the author's practical experience in using the software in a wide variety of industries. It highlights the sources of information and the methods that should be employed to produce a realistic and useful project schedule. It has a chapter dedicated to the new functions available in Version 3.1 and covers some of the more advanced features of the software such as resource levelling and Project Groups.

It explains in plain English and in a logical sequence, the steps required to create and maintain an unresourced and resourced schedule. The book is designed to teach planners and schedulers in any industry how to setup and use the software in a project environment. It is written by an experienced scheduler, who has used the software at the sharp end of projects and not a techo. This is a user guide written for project managers and planners in any industry including Building, Construction, Oil & Gas and Software Development. The book is aimed at: project management companies in industries such as building, construction, oil & gas, software development, government and defence, who wish to run their own software training courses or provide their employees with an alternative text to the vendor supplied user manual training organizations who require a training manual to run their own training courses and people who wish learn the software, however are unable to attend a training course and find the software reference manual hard going. This book may be used for learning Primavera Project Planner P3 Version 3.1 software as either: a self teach book, or a userguide, or a training manual for a three day training course.

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