Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

A comprehensive guide to managing projects, resources, and portfolios using Primavera P6, through version 8.2.

• 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.

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.

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)

Approach

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

Who this book is written 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.

《Primavera P6企業專案組合管理全面指南》是一本全面介紹如何使用Primavera P6（版本8.2）來管理專案、資源和組合的指南。

內容包括：
- 詳細介紹Oracle Primavera P6企業專案組合管理的概述。
- 使用簡單的電子郵件和P6 iPhone應用程式，隨時隨地管理專案。
- 學習在P6專業客戶端中創建新專案。
- 將Primavera P6與三個主要的ERP系統整合：Oracle EBS、JD Edwards和PeopleSoft。

2008年，Oracle收購了Primavera Software，Inc.，一家領先的專案組合管理（PPM）解決方案提供商。Primavera P6企業專案組合管理是一個集成的專案組合管理（PPM）解決方案，具有特定角色的功能，以滿足每個團隊成員的需求、責任和技能。它提供了一個單一的解決方案，用於管理任何規模的專案，適應專案中的各種複雜性，並智能地擴展以滿足組織和專案團隊中各種角色、職能或技能水平的需求。

《Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8.1: Project and Portfolio Management》旨在全面清晰地展示軟體的所有功能和功能。讀者將掌握Primavera P6的核心概念和與版本8相關的新功能。

本書分為兩個部分，第一部分介紹了專案管理的基本概念，包括組織專案、添加活動和關係、分配角色和資源、專案排程等。第二部分介紹了組合管理以及如何充分利用Web客戶端，包括組合工作、組合分析、組合能力規劃、投資回報率、追蹤績效等。

本書以簡單易懂的格式撰寫，並附有大量截圖和逐步解釋。

本書適合專案經理或顧問，希望掌握Primavera P6的核心概念和與版本8相關的新功能。本書假設讀者具有在Primavera P6環境中工作的基本知識。