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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

Capacity Planning


The Capacity Planning screen of the Portfolios section is a very powerful feature that allows users to clearly see which skills or equipment will be needed to complete a group of projects. The feature gives the user a windscreen (forward facing) view of resource usage and the landscape ahead. If the analysis highlights the fact that more cranes are needed, users have data to support decisions, such as renting or purchasing more cranes or moving the project to different dates to avoid over-allocation. This feature is best used when planning or bidding on future projects by allowing a user to stack all project timelines onto a single Gantt chart and view the resources needed month-by-month or per quarter as each bid or project is moved.

There is a lot going on in the previous screenshot! Let's break it down into more manageable sections.

Frame A—scorecard

Frame A is a scorecard area with a list of all projects within the currently open portfolio. As with any scorecard, you...

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