Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 R8.4
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Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 R8.4

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Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 R8.4

About this book

Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 R8.4 textbook explains the concepts and principles of project management through practical examples, tutorials, and exercises. This enables the users to harness the power of managing projects with Oracle Primavera P6 for their specific use. In this textbook, the author emphasizes on planning, managing and controlling the projects, assigning resources and roles to a project, and producing schedule and resources reports and graphics. This textbook is specially meant for professionals and students in engineering, project management and allied fields in the building industry.


Salient Features of the Textbook:

  • Detailed explanation of Oracle Primavera concepts
  • Projects given as tutorials
  • Tips and Notes throughout the textbook
  • 273 pages of illustrated text
  • Self-Evaluation Tests, Review Questions, and Exercises at the end of each chapter

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Primavera P6
Chapter 2: Creating Projects
Chapter 3: Defining Calendars and Work Breakdown Structure
Chapter 4: Working with Activities and Establishing Relationships
Chapter 5: Defining Resources and Roles
Chapter 6: Risks and Issues, and Settings Baselines
Chapter 7: Project Expenses and Tracking Progress of Project
Chapter 8: Printing Layouts and Reports
Index

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Chapter 1
Getting Started with Primavera P6
Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
• Understand the basics of project management
• Understand the need of project management
• Understand project planning
• Start Primavera P6
• Understand interface screen of Primavera P6
• Understand workspace
• Set the user and admin preferences
• Create a new project
• Open a project
• Export and Import a project
• Close a project

Introduction to primavera p6
Primavera P6 is a high end project management software which provides enterprise-wide solution. It helps in reducing costs, delivering the project on the projected time by streamlining and coordinating with the management level changes. This software optimizes the overall resources so that the project runs efficiently no matter how big the size of the project is. It is designed to manage a large number of projects at a time to fulfill the project management requirements in an organization.
By using Primavera P6, one can simultaneously plan major project strategies and control the minute details to finish the project. The resources will be used effectively and productively.
In this chapter, you will be introduced to Primavera P6. Also, you will learn to navigate in this software and to customize and save screen layouts. With the completion of this chapter, you will be able to comfortably navigate through the Oracle Primavera P6 R8.4 and to customize the interface to suit your project needs.
basic features of primavera p6
Primavera P6 features a wide range of project management methodologies. These methodologies are briefly discussed below.
• Centralized Project Repository
Primavera P6 offers flexibility for determining who will access a project from all projects in a centralized database.
• Enterprise Project Structure & Codes
Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) helps to create a hierarchical structure for the projects based on the requirements of an organization.
• Cross Project Analysis and Reporting
You can easily and quickly create cross-...

Table of contents

  1. CoverImage
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Primavera P6
  4. Chapter 2: Creating Projects
  5. Chapter 3: Defining Calendars and Work Breakdown Structure
  6. Chapter 4: Working with Activities and Establishing Relationships
  7. Chapter 5: Defining Resources and Roles
  8. Chapter 6: Risks and Issues, and Setting Baselines
  9. Chapter 7: Project Expenses and Tracking Progress of Project
  10. Chapter 8: Printing Layouts and Reports
  11. Lastpage