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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

Issues


There are two kinds of issues. The ones we have seen already are generated through thresholds. You may also create issues directly. To view issues, click on the exclamation icon, which looks like the following screenshot:

Or choose from the main menu Project | Issues. This screen shows all issues within any currently open projects. Note that the first one was generated from a threshold, easily identified by its unique issue name.

An issue can be assigned a Responsible Manager, a Tracking Layout, and Priority, just like a threshold. Date Identified gives the date that the issue was first recognized. The values for Status are: Open, On Hold, and Closed. If an issue is resolved, the Resolution Date can be set.

The Details screen shows more information about the issue. If it was created by a threshold, then the first row of information is filled in, based on the threshold. If it is not associated with a threshold, then all the data on this row will be blank.

An issue must be associated with...