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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

Resource curves


When resources perform work on an activity, you can choose how the resource units or costs are spread through time. This is done using a resource curve. To see this column, right-click on the Resources tab on an activity, customize the columns, and choose Curve.

A wealth of curves from which to choose is presented. These curves will determine how the effort and cost of a resource is spread over time. This could reflect expected cost for labor or the expected consumption of a material resource.

To view and modify resource curves, choose the menu Enterprise | Resource Curves. A list of resource curves, much like the one shown in the previous screenshot, appears. This screen allows you to add, modify, and delete curves. In the EPPM web client, resource curves are defined in the Resource Curves section under the Administer | Enterprise Data. Because so many standard curves come standard with P6, there may be no need to define your own.

Tip

Resource curves greatly affect earned value...