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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

Creating a template from an existing project


If you choose an existing project or template, there are more decisions to make, as that project or template will have data in it already, and you must decide which data to use in the new template. The Advanced tab shows you a number of project data items to choose from:

Why choose some items and not others? It may be that you only want the project skeleton in place, such as the WBS milestones, because you use the same ones on every project. However, you may not want to copy all of the resource roles and assignments, because different people will be working on new projects. Your circumstances and needs may vary greatly. As you can see, creating a new template is not that difficult once you have existing projects or templates to start from.

Once you press the Create button the new template will be created under the EPS node that you selected on the General screen. Next you will want to modify the template. Perhaps you copied it from an existing...