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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

Portfolio Views


Portfolio Views helps you to analyze the projects in your portfolios by providing a number of helpful graphics and tools. P6 comes with a number of pre-defined reports that allow you to quickly take advantage of a handful of industry-standard reports.

You can create your own view by clicking on Create View. A screen as shown in the following screenshot appears:

A number of view types are available:

  • Bubble Chart lets you choose X and Y axes, and then a metric for the bubble size. This gives a visual for relative size and comparative analysis:

  • Histogram lets you choose X as the base, where X is generally a discrete quantity such as phase or project name, and Y is a non-discrete quantity such as budget amount.

    Note

    This is not a true mathematical histogram, as in here there is no concept of bins or bin size.

  • Pie Chart: In this mode, you choose a quantity to measure, such as budget, and an item to group by, such as geographic area. In the example shown next, the chart groups projects...

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