Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8.1: Project and Portfolio Management: RAW

Daniel L. Williams, PhD, Elaine Britt Krazer

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Get a detailed overview of Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management.
Manage your projects from just anywhere using simple e-mail and the P6 iPhone app.
Learn to create a new project in the P6 Professional Client
Integrate Primavera P6 with three main ERP systems: Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft.

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Chapter Availability

Chapter Number	Title	Availability
1	Getting started with Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management	IN THE BOOK
2	Getting Around: Understanding & Customizing the P6 Interface	IN THE BOOK
3	Organizing your projects with EPS and OBS and WBS	IN THE BOOK
4	Creating a New Project and Work Breakdown Structure	IN THE BOOK
5	Adding Activities & Relationships	MAY 2012
6	Assigning Roles & Resources	IN THE BOOK
7	Scheduling a Project & Constraining Activities	MAY 2012
8	Tracking Issues & Risks	MAY 2012
9	Baselining and Statusing a Project	MAY 2012
10	Project Templates	IN THE BOOK
11	Working with Portfolios & Project-level Data	MAY 2012
12	Portfolio Analysis	MAY 2012
13	Portfolio Scenarios and Project Scoring	MAY 2012
14	Portfolio Capacity Planning, ROI and Tracking Performance	MAY 2012
15	Project Dashboards	MAY 2012
16	Enterprise Resource Management	MAY 2012
Appendix A	Oracle Integrations	MAY 2012

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 380 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : July 2012
ISBN : 1849684685
ISBN 13 : 978-1-84968-468-2
Author(s) : Daniel L. Williams, PhD, Elaine Britt Krazer
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Oracle Applications, Enterprise, Oracle, RAW books

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Daniel L. Williams, PhD

Daniel Williams first began working with Primavera in 2001 as part of an integration project with JD Edwards World. Since then, he has helped clients integrate Primavera with many other systems, such as PeopleSoft, Timberline, and Oracle EBS. His work centers around helping people make best use of Primavera and other software investments. Sometimes this involves heavy integration; sometimes it involves customization and automation of business processes. Sometimes it simply involves listening to people talk through their business goals and helping them come up with workable solutions. Daniel’s background includes a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech, many years of programming in C, C++, C#, and Java, and for the past decade, leading numerous software development projects oriented around Primavera

Elaine Britt Krazer

Elaine Britt Krazer, PMP began working with Primavera products as a project manager for a Government contractor in a Top Secret environment in 2003. Having managed projects since 1986, she embraces Primavera as her tool of choice. She has written training materials and published materials that combine best practices (as defined by the Project Management Institute® and from experience) and the appropriate use of Primavera within client organizations. Her philosophy is that understanding an organizations’ strategic goals for projects are the foundation for project management excellence and Primavera is the tool of choice. She has a Masters Certificate from George Washington University 2002, and her Project Management Professional (PMP®) and ITIL Foundations certifications. She is an Oracle Certified Primavera Implementation Specialist and is Primavera Training Authorized. Elaine has worked in most major industries implementing Primavera. Her past includes technical change management, business process redesign, data center management and PMO creation.

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What you will learn from this book

Learn the use of Constraints to tweak Activity dates to reflect the real world.
Master the real-time reporting features of Project Dashboards
Create Portfolio Scenarios to capture Portfolio data for comparisons and analysis
Manage Portfolios and know how to create calculated UDFs to enhance them
Get to grips with Primavera’s calculated project-level User Defined Fields
Organize your projects with EPS (Enterprise Project Structure), OBS (Organizational Breakdown Structure), and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)

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In Detail

In 2008 Oracle acquired Primavera Software, Inc., a leading provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions for project-intensive industries.

Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy each team member's needs, responsibilities, and skills. It provides a single solution for managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels of complexities within a project, and intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your organization and on your project team.

Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8.1: Project and Portfolio Management aims to show you all the features and functionality of the software thoroughly and clearly.

With Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8.1: Project and Portfolio Management, readers will master the core concepts of Primavera P6 and the new features associated with version 8.

This book is divided into two sections, in the first section we learn the fundamental concepts behind managing projects which include organizing projects, adding activities and relationships, assigning roles and resources, scheduling a project, and much more. In the second section we cover portfolio management and how to make the best use of the web client that includes working with portfolios, portfolio analysis, portfolio capacity planning, ROI, tracking performance, and lots more.

Approach

This book is written in simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations.

Who this book is for

If you are a Project manager or a consultant, who wants to master the core concepts of Primavera P6 and the new features associated with version 8, then this is the best guide for you.

This book assumes that you have a fundamental knowledge of working in the Primavera P6 environment.