Build schedules that hold up on the job site and in the boardroom
Master Oracle Primavera P6 from the ground up — real project scenarios, zero fluff — so you can walk into any PMO, construction site, or engineering office and own the schedule from day one.
I built this school around one belief: a schedule that can't survive a site meeting was never really a schedule — and I'm here to make sure yours can.— Michelle Dixon
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Build a complete project schedule from scratch in P6, including WBS, activities, and logic relationships
- Assign and level resources across a schedule to produce a realistic, conflict-free plan
- Establish a baseline and track project progress using Earned Value metrics in P6
- Apply critical path method (CPM) analysis to identify and compress schedule float
- Produce professional schedule reports and Gantt exports for client and stakeholder presentations
- Configure P6 global data — calendars, coding structures, and user-defined fields — to match real project standards
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 27 lessons
P6 Foundations & Project Setup
Orient learners to the P6 environment and configure the global settings, calendars, and coding structures needed before any schedule is built.
- 1.1Navigating the P6 InterfaceIncluded
- 1.2Configuring CalendarsIncluded
- 1.3Setting Up Activity Codes & User-Defined FieldsIncluded
- 1.4Creating a New Project & Enterprise Project StructureIncluded
Building the Work Breakdown Structure & Activities
Decompose project scope into a WBS hierarchy and populate it with well-defined, correctly typed activities.
- 2.1Designing the WBS HierarchyIncluded
- 2.2Adding & Configuring ActivitiesIncluded
- 2.3Organizing Activities with Activity CodesIncluded
- 2.4Milestones & Hammock ActivitiesIncluded
Logic, Relationships & Schedule Calculation
Link activities with correct dependency logic and run the CPM scheduler to produce a valid, connected network.
- 3.1Understanding Relationship Types (FS, SS, FF, SF)Included
- 3.2Building the Network LogicIncluded
- 3.3Applying Lags, Leads & ConstraintsIncluded
- 3.4Running the Scheduler & Interpreting ResultsIncluded
- 3.5Critical Path Analysis & Schedule CompressionIncluded
Resources & Cost Loading
Define the resource library, assign labour and equipment to activities, and level resource demand to produce a conflict-free, costed plan.
- 4.1Building the Resource & Role LibraryIncluded
- 4.2Assigning Resources to ActivitiesIncluded
- 4.3Resource Histograms & Usage ProfilesIncluded
- 4.4Resource LevellingIncluded
- 4.5Budget & Cost Baseline ReviewIncluded
Baselining, Progress Tracking & Earned Value
Freeze the approved plan as a baseline, record period progress, and measure schedule and cost performance using Earned Value.
- 5.1Setting & Managing the Project BaselineIncluded
- 5.2Updating Activity ProgressIncluded
- 5.3Statusing the Schedule with a Data DateIncluded
- 5.4Earned Value Analysis in P6Included
- 5.5Variance Analysis & Forecast CompletionIncluded
Reporting, Layouts & Professional Schedule Outputs
Build polished Gantt charts, custom layouts, and exportable reports that communicate schedule status to clients and stakeholders.
- 6.1Customising Gantt Chart LayoutsIncluded
- 6.2Grouping, Sorting & Filtering ViewsIncluded
- 6.3Using the P6 Report WizardIncluded
- 6.4Printing & Exporting Schedule OutputsIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Junior schedulers
You've landed your first project controls role and need to get genuinely productive in P6 fast, without the gaps that come from learning on the fly.
Project managers
You rely on a scheduler to interpret the plan, but you're ready to read CPM outputs, understand Earned Value, and own the schedule conversation yourself.
Construction planners
You know how a build sequence should work — this school gives you the P6 fluency to model it correctly, baseline it, and track it under real site conditions.
Oil & gas project controllers
Your projects demand resource-loaded, baselined schedules with proper EVM reporting — and this curriculum covers exactly that workflow end to end.
Self-taught P6 users
You've been clicking through P6 for months but know there are gaps in your setup and logic — this structured path corrects bad habits and builds real confidence.
Infrastructure engineers
You understand the technical scope of your projects; now you need the scheduling toolkit to translate that scope into a defensible, client-ready programme.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Michelle Dixon
If you've ever opened P6, stared at a blank project, and wondered where to actually start — or handed over a schedule that came back covered in client comments — you already know the problem this school solves.
P6 is powerful, but it's not intuitive out of the box. Most people learn it in fragments: a colleague shows them how to add activities, they figure out the Gantt print by trial and error, and critical path analysis stays a mystery because nobody ever explained how the scheduler actually calculates float. The result is schedules that look professional on screen but fall apart the moment a change order lands or progress needs to be tracked.
This school exists to fix that — properly. I built the curriculum around the complete scheduling workflow that project controls professionals actually use: from configuring your global data and building a disciplined WBS, through logic-driven network development, resource and cost loading, all the way to baseline management, Earned Value reporting, and producing the kind of outputs that get signed off rather than sent back. Every section is grounded in realistic project scenarios because that's the only way this knowledge sticks.
I've designed this for people who are serious about their craft — whether you're moving into your first dedicated scheduling role, trying to step up from junior to lead scheduler, or you're a project manager who needs to stop depending on someone else to tell you what the schedule is saying. You deserve to understand every number on that screen.
There's no padding here. We move at a pace that respects your time, we explain the why behind every step, and we don't skip the parts that most tutorials gloss over — like resource levelling logic, constraint impacts, or how to status a schedule correctly without corrupting your baseline. Those are exactly the things that matter when a project is under pressure.
If you're ready to go from uncertain P6 user to confident, credible scheduler, let's get started. The project is waiting.
— Michelle Dixon
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