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Oracle and Primavera Project Portfolio Management – Overview and Case Study

This case study was presented at the OAUG Collaborate 09 conference by Project Partners’ Tamim Kulaly, PMP.  This whitepaper and accompanying presentation provides a high level overview of new Primavera P6 features and includes a case study illustrating how firms are using Primavera with Oracle E-Business Suite Projects Applications to support business processes not possible with either system alone. You can register and download the documents here.

Integrating Primavera With Oracle EBS Projects Applications

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Primavera P6 Web Course (101)


This course provides hands-on training for Primavera’s Web-based solution. Participants will create a project, create activities and relationships, customize activity views, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and over-allocated resources, and analyze portfolios. Participants also will customize dashboards. Hands-on workshops help students create and track an entire project to completion.
Targeted role: Program Managers, Project Managers
Course length: 3 days
Course level: Basic
Prerequisite: Fundamental project management training, knowledge of MS Windows.
Profession Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 19.5 PDUs and 1.95 CEUs
PMI Program Number - 101

Learning Outcomes:

Day One

Introduction to Primavera

  • Describe Primavera solutions
  • Describe P6

The Project Management Life Cycle

  • Review the relationship between Primavera and the Project Management Life Cycle
  • Identify the five process groups in the Project Management Life Cycle

Overview and Navigation

  • Log in to P6 Web
  • Navigate to sections
  • Locate Action bars

Creating a Project

  • Create a project
  • Select a location in the Enterprise Project Structure
  • Assign a Responsible Manager from the Organizational Breakdown Structure

Editing Project Details

  • Select a project in the EPS
  • View Project Details
  • Enter project data in the Details tabs
  • Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
  • Describe a WBS
  • Create multiple levels of a WBS hierarchy

Adding Activities

  • Describe activity types
  • View activity information in the Activities tab
  • Send an e-mail related to an activity
  • Edit Activity Details
  • Add steps to an activity
  • Add a Notebook topic to an activity
  • Assign an activity code

Using Activity Views

  • Customize columns
  • Filter data
  • Group and sort activities

Day Two:

Creating Relationships

  • Differentiate between four relationship types
  • Create relationships in Activity Details
  • Create relationships in the Gantt Chart

Scheduling

  • Define key scheduling terms
  • Perform a backward and forward pass
  • Define Total Float and its impact on the schedule
  • Schedule a project
  • Describe loops and open ends

Assigning Constraints

  • Apply an overall deadline to a project
  • Apply a constraint to an individual activity
  • Add notebook topics to constrained activities
  • Describe available constraint types

Optimizing the Project Schedule

  • Analyze schedule dates
  • Shorten a project schedule

Assigning Resources

  • Assign a role
  • Fill a role assignment
  • Request resources
  • Assign a resource
  • Check resource availability
  • Send e-mails to assigned resources

Project Workspace

  • Describe the Project Workspace
  • Add and remove portlets
  • Customize the Project Workspace

Analyzing Resources and Costs

  • Analyze and remove resource overallocation
  • Analyze project costs

Baselining the Project

  • Add a baseline
  • Select a baseline

Day Three:

Executing the Project Plan

  • Describe several methods for updating the project schedule
  • Define the data date

Analyzing the Updated Project

  • Compare Must Finish By and Scheduled Finish dates
  • View issues
  • View schedule performance
  • Adjust the project based on issue information
  • View budget data

Reporting

  • Assign reports to the Project Reports portlet
  • Schedule reports
  • View scheduled reports

Dashboards

  • Create a dashboard
  • Add and remove dashboards
  • Filter data to display in portlets
  • View your projects and activities

Portfolios

  • Create a portfolio manually
  • Create a portfolio by filter

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