Resource and Cost Analysis with P3

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
09 Nov 2025 Muscat, Oman $ 4,500 Register

Resource and Cost Analysis with P3

Introduction

This course will enable you to take full advantage of driving resources, resource curves, hierarchical resources, resource profiles/tables and Resource Levelling. 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.

Objectives

    Upon course completion, you will be able to:

    • Adding a project to a project group
    • Developing the coding structure
    • Adding the project code values
    • Calculating a schedule by manually creating a target

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

The audience for this training course will be:

  • Project Administrators and Field Superintendents

Course Outline

Controlling and Managing Resources:

  • Organize activities into groups according to resource
  • Use resource profile/tables for “what if” analysis
  • Define hierarchical and driving resources
  • Assign resource lag and duration to activities
  • Define linear and nonlinear resource distribution
  • Use reports to review resource/cost allocation

Resource Calendars:

  • Create resource calendars
  • Define task, independent, and meeting activities
  • Assign driving resources to different activity types

Resource Levelling:

  • Handle resource conflicts
  • Differentiate between forward and backward levelling
  • Perform hierarchical resource levelling
  • Analyse the effects of resource levelling on a project

Hands-On Workshops & Exercises:

  • Analyze resource use through resource profiles
  • Assign hierarchical resources
  • Define driving resources
  • Create resource/cost curves
  • Run resource/cost reports
  • Apply resource calendars to a schedule
  • Level resources

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