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  • M4.1 — Risk Identification & Assessment

    1. Practical outcomeBy the end of this section, the learner should be able to establish a disciplined risk-identification process that finds, frames and records uncertainty before it is scored or modelled. They should be able to distinguish risks from issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions…

    17 Oct 2026
  • M3.3 — Commitments, Actuals & Accruals

    1. Practical outcomeBy the end of this section, the learner should be able to establish and explain a reliable period-end cost position by reconciling recognised actual cost, open commitments and costs incurred but not yet recorded. They should be able to define an appropriate financial cut-off,…

    17 Oct 2026
  • M3.1 — Cost Estimating & Basis of Estimate

    1. Practical outcomeBy the end of this section, the learner should be able to turn authorised scope and available project information into a traceable cost estimate whose quantities, rates, productivity assumptions, methods, exclusions and uncertainty can be understood, challenged and reproduced.…

    17 Oct 2026
  • M2.1 — Planning & Schedule Development

    1. Practical outcomeBy the end of this section, the learner should be able to turn authorised scope and an agreed delivery strategy into a credible, structured and maintainable project schedule that explains what work must be performed, in what broad sequence, over what durations and calendars,…

    17 Oct 2026
  • M1.5 — Data Quality, Integration & Traceability

    1. Practical outcomeBy the end of this section, the learner should be able to establish and operate a project-controls data environment in which important information is complete enough, accurate enough, timely enough, consistent enough and traceable enough to support management decisions. They…

    17 Oct 2026
  • M1.3 — Integrated Baselines

    1. Practical outcomeBy the end of this section, the learner should be able to establish, test and explain an integrated project baseline that brings authorised scope, schedule, budget, assumptions, progress rules and accountability into one coherent reference position. They should be able to…

    17 Oct 2026
  • M1.2 — Coding & Control Structures

    1. Practical outcomeBy the end of this section, the learner should be able to design and apply a coherent set of coding and control structures that allows project information to be organised, integrated, aggregated, reconciled and reported without repeatedly rebuilding the underlying data. They…

    17 Oct 2026
  • M1.1 — Scope & Work Breakdown Structures

    1. Practical outcomeBy the end of this section, the learner should be able to take an authorised project scope and turn it into a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that can actually be used to control the project. They should be able to explain what belongs in the WBS, what does not, how far to…

    17 Oct 2026
  • OBS and EPS in Primavera P6

    The EPS (Enterprise Project Structure) is a logical, meaningful, hierarchical arrangement of all the projects in your organization. This is a view of the company showing its areas of operations.

    4 Jul 2018
  • Defining Activity Codes in Primavera 6 R8.1

    What are Activity Codes in P6?

    24 Nov 2012

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