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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

You're reading from   Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management For project managers and consultants, this book will help you master the main elements of Primavera P6, together with the new features in Version 8. Lots of screenshots and clear explanations make for an easy ride.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684682
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Oracle Primavera P6 FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Around: Understanding and Customizing the P6 Interface 3. Organizing your Projects with EPS, OBS, and WBS 4. Creating a New Project and Work Breakdown Structure 5. Adding Activities and Relationships 6. Resources 7. Scheduling and Constraints 8. Issues and Risks 9. Baselines and Statusing 10. Project Templates 11. Portfolios 12. Portfolio Analysis 13. Measuring and Scoring Projects 14. Capacity Planning and ROI 15. Dashboards 16. Resource Management Integrations Reporting Index

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When you are viewing activities, there are a series of tabs below the main screen. These display a wide variety of settings available for the activities:

General

The most important tab is General , which lets you set fundamental properties of the activity. Activity ID should be a code which follows a set pattern that allows it to be grouped, sorted, and organized. For example, activities in the Engineering phase can begin with E. The Activity Name will be used on project reports such as the 3-week lookahead, and should therefore be meaningful to the people in the field performing the work on a daily basis. Activity Type is such a fundamental concept that it will be discussed in a following section solely dedicated to the topic.

The Status section shows the activitiy's start and finish dates. These dates may come from one of the following three different dates:

  1. When the activity has not yet been scheduled, the dates are the Planned Start and Planned Finish.

  2. After the activity...

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