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BOOK ORACLE PRIMAVERA P6 VERSION 8
SUMMARY
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Items Found: 243
- Preface 1
- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Oracle Primavera P6 7
- Product history 7
- Enter Oracle 8
- P3 and SureTrak 9
- What's in the name? 9
- P6 core concepts 11
- Project Management Life Cycle 11
- Activities 12
- Resources 13
- What's new in P6 Release 8 14
- New in Release 8.2 15
- Summary 19
- Chapter 2: Getting Around: Understanding
- and Customizing the P6 Interface 21
- EPPM Web Client overview 22
- Application menus 23
- Tabs 24
- Modules 25
- Main screen 25
- Logging into the P6 Client 26
- Screen overview 30
- Main menus 33
- File menu 34
- Edit menu 37
- View menu 48
- Project menu 48
- Enterprise 49
- Tools 50
- Admin 53
- Help 55
- Customizing screens and saving layouts 56
- Summary 57
- Chapter 3: Organizing your Projects with EPS, OBS, and WBS 59
- Enterprise versus project data 59
- Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) 60
- Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) 63
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 68
- A simple example 71
- Summary 75
- Chapter 4: Creating a New Project and Work Breakdown Structure 77
- Creating a new project using the New Project Wizard 77
- Setting project properties 81
- General 81
- Notebook 83
- Budget Log 83
- Spending Plan 84
- Budget Summary 85
- Dates 85
- Funding 86
- Codes (project level) 87
- Defaults 89
- Resources 89
- Settings 90
- Calculations 90
- Structuring the WBS of the project 92
- General 93
- Notebook 93
- WBS Milestones 93
- WPs & Docs 94
- Earned value 96
- Importing projects in the web client 97
- General 101
- Activity 102
- Resources 102
- Notebooks 104
- Custom Field Mapping 104
- Importing in the Professional Client 105
- Exporting projects 108
- Summary 110
- Chapter 5: Adding Activities and Relationships 111
- Activities 112
- Oracle Primavera P6 compared to other tools 112
- Oracle Primavera and scheduling best practices 113
- Activity details 114
- General 114
- Codes 117
- Expenses 117
- Assignments 118
- Documents 118
- Feedback 118
- Issues 119
- Notebooks 119
- Predecessors/Successors 119
- Trace Logic 120
- Risks 120
- Activity types 120
- Start milestone 121
- Finish milestone 121
- Task dependent 122
- Resource dependent 122
- Level of Effort 123
- WBS summary 124
- Relationships 125
- Finish to Start 126
- Start to Start 126
- Finish to Finish 126
- Start to Finish 127
- Lag and float 127
- Working with Activities 128
- Gantt chart 128
- Table 129
- Activity network 129
- Summary 130
- Chapter 6: Resources 131
- Resources 131
- Resources: General 133
- Resources: Codes 134
- Resources: Details 135
- Resources: Units and Prices 136
- Resources: Roles 137
- Roles 138
- Roles: General 138
- Roles: Resources 139
- Roles: Prices 139
- Roles: Limits 140
- Teams 140
- Resource assignments 142
- Resource curves 145
- Calendars 147
- Modifying calendars 148
- Calendar priority 150
- Summary 152
- Chapter 7: Scheduling and Constraints 153
- Scheduling activities 153
- Understanding scheduling algorithms 155
- Scheduling using CPM and P6 155
- The scheduling algorithm 156
- The formula for start and finish 157
- Settings at the user level 158
- Settings at the project level 160
- Calculations 160
- Scheduling (F9) options 161
- Settings at the global level 165
- Settings at the activity level 166
- Activity types 166
- Summary 173
- Chapter 8: Issues and Risks 175
- Thresholds 176
- Issues 178
- Risks: P6 Professional 180
- Risks: P6 Enterprise 183
- Summary 185
- Chapter 9: Baselines and Statusing 187
- Maintaining baselines 187
- Updating a baseline 190
- Baseline assignment 193
- Updating project status 195
- Auto compute actuals 196
- Percent complete 197
- Entering hours 198
- Actual dates 199
- Actual costs 200
- Resources 201
- Summary 201
- Chapter 10: Project Templates 203
- Creating a new project template 204
- Creating a template from an existing project 206
- Creating a new project from a template 207
- Inserting a WBS into an existing project 208
- Summary 210
- Chapter 11: Portfolios 211
- Managing portfolios 212
- Creating a portfolio 213
- Portfolio Views 214
- Scenarios 218
- User Defined Fields (UDFs) 219
- Summary 222
- Chapter 12: Portfolio Analysis 223
- The Portfolio Analysis screen 224
- Scorecards 226
- Choosing data to display 227
- Columns 227
- Waterline 228
- Graphical displays 229
- Pie charts 229
- Histograms 232
- Side-by-side histogram 233
- Stacked histogram 235
- Bubble charts 236
- Summary 238
- Chapter 13: Measuring and Scoring Projects 239
- Scoring projects 239
- Creating and using scenarios 242
- Waterline Analysis 244
- Summary 246
- Chapter 14: Capacity Planning and ROI 247
- Capacity Planning 247
- Frame A—scorecard 249
- Frame B—Gantt chart 251
- Frame C—resources and roles 252
- Frame D—Resource and Role Usage 253
- Putting it all together 256
- Return on Investment (ROI) 256
- Summary 259
- Chapter 15: Dashboards 261
- Dashboard examples: 262
- Managing dashboards 264
- Customizing a dashboard 267
- Content tab 267
- General 268
- Portfolio Views 268
- Project Performance 269
- Resources 272
- Personal Information 276
- Custom Portlets 278
- Dashboard Layout 279
- Access 280
- Summary 281
- Chapter 16: Resource Management 283
- Planning 283
- Planning by project 285
- Planning by resource 286
- Splitting 287
- Assignments 288
- Resource analysis 290
- Summary 292
- Appendix A: Integrations 293
- Integration overview 293
- Integration benefits 294
- Enforcing best practices 295
- Ensuring data integrity 295
- Fewer people handling more projects 296
- Integration pitfalls 296
- Over-analysis 296
- Imposing external culture 297
- Underestimating technical skillset 298
- Integration possibilities 298
- Integration technology 298
- JD Edwards 299
- E-Business Suite 301
- PeopleSoft 304
- Summary 305
- Appendix B: Reporting 307
- Reporting from Professional 307
- Screen printing 308
- Reports 310
- Editing reports 312
- Reporting from the web client 313
- Screen printing 314
- BI Publisher 314
- Summary 318
- Index 319
