Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8 Project and Portfolio Management : Project and Portfolio Management

Intro -- Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management -- Table of Contents -- Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Oracle Primavera P6 -- Product history -- Enter Oracle -- P3 and SureTrak -- What's in the name? -- P6 core concepts -- Project Management Life Cycle -- Activities -- Resources -- What's new in P6 Release 8 -- New in Release 8.2 -- Summary -- 2. Getting Around: Understanding and Customizing the P6 Interface -- EPPM Web Client overview -- Application menus -- Tabs -- Modules -- Main screen -- Logging into the P6 Client -- Screen overview -- Main menus -- File menu -- Edit menu -- View menu -- Project menu -- Enterprise -- Tools -- Admin -- Help -- Customizing screens and saving layouts -- Summary -- 3. Organizing your Projects with EPS, OBS, and WBS -- Enterprise versus project data -- Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) -- Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) -- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) -- A simple example -- Summary -- 4. Creating a New Project and Work Breakdown Structure -- Creating a new project using the New Project Wizard -- Setting project properties -- General -- Notebook -- Budget Log -- Spending Plan -- Budget Summary -- Dates -- Funding -- Codes (project level) -- Defaults -- Resources -- Settings -- Calculations -- Structuring the WBS of the project -- General -- Notebook -- WBS Milestones -- WPs & Docs -- Earned value.