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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

Overview of this book

In 2008 Oracle acquired Primavera Software, Inc., a leading provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions for project-intensive industries.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.Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management aims to show you all the features and functionality of the software thoroughly and clearly.With Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management, readers will master the core concepts of Primavera P6 and the new features associated with version 8.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.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Baseline assignment


We have discussed a lot about how to create and manage baselines. This is all fine, but the purpose behind baselines is in project analysis. To do this, you must assign baselines to your project. There are two main kinds of baselines assignment:

Project Baseline is a baseline that is set as the official baseline for the project. This baseline is the one used to calculate all variance fields, to populate information on web dashboards and controls icons and indicators on charts and dashboards and in columns. This is the one used for the reporting engine. All users who view the project and look at baseline information will see the data from this and only this baseline.

User Baseline: Each user can have up to three personal baselines assigned in the Professional client. In the web client, however, there is only one user baseline allowed. This allows a user to compare the current project with up to three previous snapshots (baselines) at a given time. Some good examples for...