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Planning And Control Using ORACLE PRIMAVERA P6

The purpose of this book is to provide a method for planning, scheduling and controlling projects using Primavera P6 Version 8.1 to 15.1 Professional Client and Optional Client within an established Enterprise Project database or a blank
database up to an intermediate level. Please note there are no versions 9 to 14 as Oracle has changed their naming convention with the release of 15.1, so the name is the same as the year of the release. There are differences between how the Professional Client (the term used when opening a PPM database) and Optional Client (the term used when opening a EPPM database) operate and these are identified throughout the book.

Due to the change in the menu system, it is not possible to make the menus in this book backward compatible to earlier versions of Primavera P6, but users of earlier versions should be able to use this book as most functions are the same once one has invoked a menu command.

This book covers the following topics:

• Understand the steps required to create a project plan and monitor a project’s progress
• Understand the Primavera P6 environment
• Create a project and set up the preferences
• Define calendars
• Creating a Work Breakdown Structure and adding activities
• Format the display
• Add logic and constraints
• Use Filters, Group, Sort and Layouts
• Print reports
• Record and track progress of an un-resourced schedule
• User and Administration Preferences and Scheduling Options
• Create and assign roles and resources
• Resource optimization including leveling
• Update a project containing resources
• Other methods of organizing data and Global Change
• Managing the enterprise environment including multiple project scheduling

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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8 Project and Portfolio Management

A comprehensive guide to managing projects, resources, and portfolios using Primavera P6, through version 8.2.

Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy each team member’s needs, responsibilities, and skills. It provides a single solution for managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels of complexities within a project, and intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your organization and on your project team.

This book is divided into two sections, in the first section we learn the fundamental concepts behind managing projects which include organizing projects, adding activities and relationships, assigning roles and resources, scheduling a project, and much more. In the second section we cover portfolio management and how to make the best use of the web client that includes working with portfolios, portfolio analysis, portfolio capacity planning, ROI, tracking performance, and lots more.

What you will learn from this book:

Learn the use of Constraints to tweak Activity dates to reflect the real world.
Master the real-time reporting features of Project Dashboards
Create Portfolio Scenarios to capture Portfolio data for comparisons and analysis
Manage Portfolios and know how to create calculated UDFs to enhance them
Get to grips with Primavera’s calculated project-level User Defined Fields
Organize your projects with EPS (Enterprise Project Structure), OBS (Organizational Breakdown Structure), and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)

Approach:

This book is written in simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations.

Who this book is written for:

If you are a Project manager or a consultant, who wants to master the core concepts of Primavera P6 and the new features associated with version 8, then this is the best guide for you.

This book assumes that you have a fundamental knowledge of working in the Primavera P6 environment.

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Roads Project Schedule Primavera XER File

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Hotel Construction Projet Primavera XER File

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Primavera Sample Project Schedule XER Construction File

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What are the differences between Primavera vs MS-Project

Primavera Oracle and Microsoft Project are the most commonly used softwares packages for Scheduling and Controlling in Construction and Development Projects.

P6 is by far more suited for a multi-user, large corporate project structure, particularly where most projects are part of a larger project, or an ongoing corporate management strategy that integrates projects in a networked system, particularly with a lot of shared resources. The three major downsides to P6 are the sharp learning curve, the need for a system administrator, and the overall and ongoing cost.

MS Project is more suited for independent projects, smaller corporations with less projects, a corporate management strategy that separates projects from the business management system, and projects that are largely dependent on external resources. The downsides to Project are the difficulties in integrating multiple resource-related or otherwise multi-level projects, and creating and integrating resource-dependent scheduling and auto-leveling.

These are the main factors that should be considered when selecting your Project Management software.

Below are listed the 13 main differences between Primavera and MS-Project: