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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

Waterline Analysis


When viewing tabular data on a Portfolio Analysis scorecard in Capacity Planning, you can assign a waterline to the table. The waterline will show which items are below the line by shading them blue, as though there were under water.

The waterline has two key properties—the parameter and the sort order.

The parameter is the quantity you will use to measure if a project is above or below the waterline. You choose the parameter, the comparison operator, and a value.

In our example, we use current budget as the parameter, and request that a waterline be drawn for all projects when the cumulative value is less than $5,000,000 and we sort by project score. Therefore, this will show the top-scoring projects whose cumulative value is at or below $5,000,000. All the other projects will show as under water.

This view will show us the best-scoring projects we can afford for $5,000,000. Now let's ask the question—which are the worst-performing projects that we can get rid of in order...