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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

Creating a template from an existing project


If you choose an existing project or template, there are more decisions to make, as that project or template will have data in it already, and you must decide which data to use in the new template. The Advanced tab shows you a number of project data items to choose from:

Why choose some items and not others? It may be that you only want the project skeleton in place, such as the WBS milestones, because you use the same ones on every project. However, you may not want to copy all of the resource roles and assignments, because different people will be working on new projects. Your circumstances and needs may vary greatly. As you can see, creating a new template is not that difficult once you have existing projects or templates to start from.

Once you press the Create button the new template will be created under the EPS node that you selected on the General screen. Next you will want to modify the template. Perhaps you copied it from an existing...

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