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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

The Portfolio Analysis screen


To get to the Portfolio Analysis screen, click on Portfolios, then choose one of the available views that appears in the lower portion of the menu. If you would like to re-visit a previously-opened portfolio, the most recent ones appear at the bottom of the dropdown menu when you click the down arrow.

This drop-down menu of portfolios contains the last five portfolios that the user has most recently viewed.

Note

Be cautious about assigning a portfolio to another user account. The account you are logged into will no longer be able to view that specific portfolio, and if you choose such a portfolio from your most recently used list, you will get a warning that the portfolio "does not exist or you no longer have access to it."

When you choose or create a portfolio, it opens in an analysis view . P6 keeps track of which view you were last using with each portfolio and by default always opens that last view for each portfolio.

An analysis view consists of two screens...

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