Primavera P6 Advanced Training in Australia
Advanced P6 training for senior planners, lead schedulers and PMO teams responsible for schedule quality, governance and complex reporting workflows.
Overview
Why this course exists
Advanced is for teams who already maintain live schedules and need deeper capability: structured quality review, governance discipline, advanced reporting and the patterns that keep schedules defensible through complex update and change cycles.
Audience
Who it is for
- Senior planners and lead schedulers on major projects
- PMO leads setting schedule quality and reporting standards
- Experienced schedulers supporting claims readiness and governance
- Project controls managers overseeing multiple schedule workstreams
- Teams needing advanced layouts, UDFs and export workflows
Prerequisites
- P6 Practitioner-level capability or equivalent hands-on scheduling experience
- Prior ownership of live schedule build, update and reporting cycles
- Familiarity with your organisation’s scheduling standards and review gates
Curriculum
What the course covers
Instructor-led modules with practical exercises throughout.
Module 1: Schedule quality and diagnostic review
- Run structured quality reviews with defensible findings
- Apply diagnostic techniques for complex project schedules
Module 2: Complex progress and recovery patterns
- Handle scope change and recovery updates without breaking logic
- Maintain contemporaneous records discipline through update cycles
Module 3: User-defined fields, codes and data structures
- Design UDFs and activity codes that support PMO reporting
- Align custom data with governance and handover requirements
Module 4: Advanced layouts and global change
- Build repeatable layout and export workflows
- Apply global change safely with review gates
Module 5: Custom reporting and stakeholder packs
- Produce leadership-ready schedule reporting packs
- Standardise outputs across programs and portfolios
Module 6: Governance, data integrity and coaching
- Strengthen schedule governance and data discipline
- Coach junior schedulers using consistent quality criteria
Outcomes
What you leave able to do
- Run structured schedule quality reviews with defensible findings
- Apply advanced update and change patterns without breaking logic
- Design UDFs, codes and layouts that support PMO reporting standards
- Build repeatable export and reporting workflows for leadership
- Strengthen governance, data discipline and handover to disputes or claims
- Coach junior schedulers using consistent quality criteria
Delivery
How this course is delivered
Online instructor-led
Tailored private cohort delivery for distributed senior teams.
Best for: National PMO and scheduling leads
Brisbane classroom
In-person advanced workshops when scheduled.
Best for: South-east Queensland scheduling teams
On-site team training
Multi-day workshops at your office or project site.
Best for: Program teams needing governance alignment on-site
Private team workshop
Scoped topics such as quality review, reporting or governance.
Best for: PMOs lifting schedule standards across a portfolio
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