Scheduling activities

Ideally, before using Oracle Primavera, a company or organization should have some scheduling or project management standards in place as approved and supported by upper management. This is particularly important for companies that will be using Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM), which enables and encourages a collaborative and multi-user environment. There are settings ranging from the user to the application level that can have powerful effects on reporting, progressing, and scheduling project data.

Oracle Primavera is designed to address projects within multiple industries, organizations with varying degrees of PM maturity, and scales from very small organizations to very large organizations. This means it is flexible, scalable, and robust. Add those factors together and you get a powerful, yet complicated, result. Let's clear up a few things.

Full clarity comes from understanding three principles:

• GIGO (Garbage In = Garbage Out)

• For data...