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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

Planning


Sometimes you know you need certain people or roles for a project, but you are not yet ready to assign them to specific tasks. Through the Resources tab, you can assign resources to a project at the project and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) level. Note that this planning assignment does not necessarily prevent the resources from being used elsewhere. Instead, the Resources tab lets you add resources to your project during the early planning phase, without removing them from the general resource pool. You may later on choose to assign these resources to actual activities once the project is approved and underway. You can also prevent a planned resource from being used in other projects by checking the Committed box in the specific assignment. This is one way to securely reserve a resource for a project.

The following screenshot shows the Resources tab:

The planning resources feature is similar to top-down budgeting, in that the planned resource assignments do not tie directly to the...