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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 Training - P5/P6 Advanced Course (106) P


This course provides in-depth project management training in the Primavera P6 client-server-based solution, building off skills learned in the basic course (102). Topics include earned value analysis, updating baselines, importing and exporting project data, and top-down budgeting.
Targeted roles: Program managers, project managers, administrators, planners/schedulers.
Course length: 2 days
Course level: Advanced
Prerequisite: Course 102
Professional Development and Continuing Education Units: Earns 13 PDUs and 1.3 CEUs
PMI Program Number: - 106 P

Learning Outcomes:

Day One:

Creating a Project with Project Architect

  • Create a project using Project Architect
  • Customize the project plan

Assigning Codes

  • Assign project code values to activities
  • Assign resource code values to resources
  • Assign activity code values to activities

User-Defined Fields and Global Change

  • Establish user-defined fields
  • Define global change parameters
  • Run a global change

Portfolios

  • Create a portfolio
  • Add projects to a portfolio
  • Open projects using portfolios

Advanced Scheduling

  • Calculate multiple float paths when scheduling
  • Explain the difference between the scheduling logic options
  • Identify a calendar’s effect on lag

Monitor Thresholds and Issues

  • Identify the difference between thresholds and issues
  • Create a threshold and an issue

Importing and Exporting Data

  • Describe the process of importing and exporting data
  • Export projects
  • Import projects

Transferring Data Between Primavera and Microsoft Excel

  • Export activity data to a spreadsheet application
  • Modify project information in the spreadsheet application
  • Import project information from the spreadsheet application

Updating Baselines

  • Specify the activities to update in the baseline
  • Update activity and resource assignment data

Claim Digger

  • Specify how Claim Digger compares project plans
  • Create a comparison report in Claim Digger

Day Two:

Duration Types

  • Determine which Duration Type works best in a given situation
  • Assign a Duration Type to an activity

Calculating Percent Complete

  • Describe the three Percent Complete types
  • Determine which Percent Complete type to use based on how your organization reports progress
  • Explain how activity percentages are calculated based on the Percent Complete type chosen
  • Use weighted steps to calculate Percent Complete

Earned Value Analysis

  • Define Earned Value
  • Define Performance Percent Complete
  • Review results of different earned value techniques
  • Realize the benefits of using earned value techniques

Activity Usage Profile and Spreadsheet

  • Display cost data in the Activity Usage Profile
  • Display curves in the Activity Usage Profile
  • Analyze earned value data using curves in the Activity Usage Profile

Top-Down Budgeting

  • Establish project budgets
  • Establish spending plans
  • Track budget changes
  • Track and analyze budgets
  • Establish funding sources

Top-Down Estimating

  • Describe top-down estimating
  • Add estimation weights to activities and WBS elements
  • Perform top-down estimating

Risk Documentation

  • Set up risk types
  • Create a risk
  • Calculate a risk’s exposure values
  • Analyze the impact of a risk

Tracking Layouts

  • Identify the four types of tracking layouts
  • Navigate in a tracking layout
  • Open a tracking layout
  • Modify layouts
  • Create new layouts

Auto Compute Actuals

  • Describe the business rules for auto compute actuals
  • Auto compute an activity
  • Analyze the effect of auto compute actuals on an activity
  • Auto compute a resource
  • Auto compute an expense

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