Stop reading about Primavera P6. Build something with it.

Most P6 books are either bloated reference manuals or shallow quick-starts that abandon you the moment real scheduling begins. This book takes a different path: you build one complete construction project - the Riverside Office Building - from an empty database to a statused, variance-reporting schedule, exactly the way professional planners do it on live projects.

Every screenshot in this book comes from that same project. If your screen matches the figure, you're on track.

Step by step, you will:

Set up enterprise data, calendars and time periods correctly - before they sabotage you

Design a proper Work Breakdown Structure and enter 32 real activities

Link the network with FS, SS and FF logic, and use lag honestly

Press F9, read the schedule log, and trace the critical path and float

Resource-load the schedule, spot a crew overload on the histogram, and cost the job

Set a baseline the right way - before recording a single day of progress

Run a full monthly update with a moving data date, actual dates, remaining durations, and an out-of-sequence warning you'll learn to adjudicate like a professional

Build filters, look-aheads and print-ready layouts your stakeholders can actually read

Also inside: the ten most common P6 mistakes, DCMA-style schedule quality checks, a 50-term glossary, a complete build sheet so you can rebuild the project for practice, ten graded exercises, and a 30-day plan to mastery.

Written for project managers, new planners and schedulers, engineers moving into project controls, and candidates preparing for PMP, PMI-SP and AACE PSP certification. No prior P6 experience required.

By the final page you won't have read about Primavera P6 - you'll have used it, correctly and completely, through the full life of a project. That's the only way anyone has ever really learned it.