Primavera P6 Schedule Review: Audit, Analyze & Fix CPM

Learn how to professionally review, audit, and analyze Primavera P6 CPM schedules rather than simply operate the software. This course was developed with the support of selected AI-assisted tools for course organization, visuals, and learning materials, with all technical scheduling content reviewed and validated by the instructor. This course is designed for schedulers, planning engineers, project controls professionals, consultants, contractors, owners, and project managers who need to determine whether a project schedule is logical, credible, and capable of supporting management decisions.

Throughout the course, you will learn a structured schedule-review methodology that can be applied to building construction, infrastructure, heavy civil, industrial, mission-critical, and other capital projects. You will learn how to review preliminary, detailed, and cost/resource-loaded baseline schedules before moving into the monthly update cycle. You will also learn how to evaluate schedule health, including open ends, relationship types, excessive lags, constraints, calendars, activity durations, out-of-sequence progress, actual dates, Expected Finish, and float anomalies.

The course goes beyond simply identifying “red activities. ” You will learn how to validate the Longest Path, analyze total float and near-critical paths, identify critical-path migration, and determine what is actually driving contractual milestones and project completion. You will also learn how to compare schedule updates, identify activity and logic changes, quantify milestone slippage and float burn, and document findings using professional review tools such as a Schedule Review Checklist, Slippage Register, Milestone Trend Register, Float Tracker, Critical Path Register, and contractor comment sheet.

A major focus of the course is turning technical schedule findings into clear professional communication. You will learn how to write contractor comments that identify the condition, explain the schedule impact, reference supporting evidence, and state the required corrective action. The course includes practical examples, Primavera P6 demonstrations, downloadable templates, and a schedule-review case study that brings the complete review process together.