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Primavera® P6Project

Management

Reference Manual

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Table of Contents

 

Preface...............................................................................................

xiii

Primavera Products ............................................................................................

xiv

Using Documentation and Help........................................................................

xvii

Where to Get Support .........................................................................................

xx

Part 1: Overview and Configuration

 

Understanding Project Management .................................................

3

Why Use Project Portfolio Management? ............................................................

4

Your Role in the Organization ..............................................................................

5

Project Management Process Overview ...............................................................

8

Planning, Controlling, and Managing Projects...................................................

10

Quick Tour..........................................................................................

13

Getting Started ....................................................................................................

14

Selecting a Language..........................................................................................

17

The Workspace ...................................................................................................

18

What Is a Layout?...............................................................................................

21

Customizing Displays.........................................................................................

23

Sample Layouts ..................................................................................................

25

Using Wizards.....................................................................................................

27

Defining Administrative Preferences and Categories.....................

29

Defining Default Settings ...................................................................................

30

Defining Standard Categories and Values ..........................................................

40

Defining Currencies............................................................................................

46

Setting User Preferences....................................................................

49

Formatting Time Units........................................................................................

50

Formatting Dates ................................................................................................

52

Setting View Currency and Symbols ..................................................................

53

Setting Mail Preferences.....................................................................................

54

Implementing Wizards........................................................................................

55

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Creating a Log of Tasks and

 

Setting Startup, Group and Sort, and Column Options.....................................

56

Changing Your Password ....................................................................................

58

Setting Profile and Spreadsheet Data Options ....................................................

59

Setting Calculation Options for Resource and Role Assignments......................

61

Selecting Startup Filters ......................................................................................

63

Part 2: Structuring Projects

 

Setting Up the Enterprise Project Structure ...................................

67

Enterprise Project Structure Overview................................................................

68

Setting Up the Enterprise Project Structure ........................................................

75

Adding a New Project to the Enterprise Project Structure..................................

77

Using Project Architect.......................................................................................

79

Working with the Enterprise Project Structure ...................................................

84

Defining Enterprise Project Structure Details.....................................................

89

Setting Up the Organizational Breakdown Structure ....................

97

The OBS..............................................................................................................

98

Viewing an OBS................................................................................................

101

Setting Up an OBS ............................................................................................

103

Editing OBS Elements ......................................................................................

106

Defining Resources and Roles.........................................................

109

Resources Overview..........................................................................................

110

Viewing and Adding Resources ........................................................................

111

Defining Resource Shifts ..................................................................................

118

Defining and Assigning Resource Codes and Values .......................................

119

Setting Up Roles ...............................................................................................

122

Assigning Roles to Resources...........................................................................

127

Defining Custom Resource Curves ...................................................................

129

Reviewing Work Breakdown Structures .......................................

133

The WBS...........................................................................................................

134

Viewing a WBS.................................................................................................

136

Grouping by WBS Path.....................................................................................

138

Adding WBS Elements and Assigning Properties............................................

139

Using WBS Milestones.....................................................................................

143

Assigning WBS Category Values......................................................................

145

Defining Earned Value Settings for Specific WBS Elements ...........................

146

Assigning Estimation Weights to WBS Elements ............................................

148

Defining Budgets ..............................................................................

151

Top-Down Budgeting........................................................................................

152

Establishing Budgets.........................................................................................

155

Establishing a Monthly Spending Plan .............................................................

157

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Tracking Budget Changes.................................................................................

159

Establishing Funding ........................................................................................

161

Tracking and Analyzing Budgets .....................................................................

164

Establishing Project Codes..............................................................

165

Defining and Assigning Project Codes.............................................................

166

Grouping, Summarizing, and Filtering by Codes.............................................

170

Working With User-Defined Fields ................................................

175

Creating User-Defined Fields ...........................................................................

176

Working with User-Defined Fields...................................................................

178

Working with Indicators ...................................................................................

180

Creating Calendars..........................................................................

183

Adding Calendars .............................................................................................

184

Modifying Calendars ........................................................................................

186

Part 3: Implementing the Schedule

 

Establishing Activity Codes ............................................................

193

Creating Activity Codes and Values .................................................................

194

Grouping and Summarizing by Codes..............................................................

198

Working with Activities...................................................................

201

Activities Overview ..........................................................................................

202

Adding Activities..............................................................................................

203

Defining General Activity Information ............................................................

205

Defining Schedule Information ........................................................................

209

Establishing Relationships................................................................................

213

Displaying Activity Details for Assignments ...................................................

218

Assigning Resources and Roles........................................................................

219

Assigning Resource Curves to Resource or Role Assignments .......................

223

Manually Planning Future Period Assignments ...............................................

224

Assigning Activity Codes and Adding Expenses .............................................

230

Viewing Activity Feedback and Posting Resource Notes.................................

232

Assigning Work Products and Documents .......................................................

234

Adding Steps.....................................................................................................

235

Creating and Assigning Activity Step Templates .............................................

237

Viewing Activity Summaries............................................................................

240

Viewing Contract Manager Documents............................................................

241

Using Global Change........................................................................................

242

Working with Cost Accounts and Project Expenses.....................

247

Cost Account and Expense Overview ..............................................................

248

Setting Up a Cost Account Structure................................................................

249

Adding Expenses and Entering Cost Information ............................................

253

Defining Expense Details .................................................................................

256

Analyzing Costs................................................................................................

258

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Performing Top-down Estimation ..................................................

261

Performing Top-down Estimation.....................................................................

262

Applying Saved Top-Down Estimates To a Project ..........................................

266

Part 4: Updating and Managing the Schedule

 

Managing Baselines .........................................................................

271

Creating and Maintaining Baselines .................................................................

272

Assigning Baselines to Projects ........................................................................

276

Comparing Current and Baseline Schedules.....................................................

278

Updating Baselines ...........................................................................................

280

Updating, Scheduling, and Leveling...............................................

283

The Update Process...........................................................................................

284

Choosing a Method of Updating.......................................................................

286

Highlighting Activities for Updating ................................................................

288

Updating Progress for Spotlighted Activities ...................................................

290

Estimating Progress Automatically...................................................................

292

Updating Using Timesheets ..............................................................................

295

Updating Activities Manually ...........................................................................

297

Interrupting Activity Progress...........................................................................

303

Applying Actuals ..............................................................................................

305

Storing Period Performance (Past Period Actuals) ...........................................

307

Scheduling Projects...........................................................................................

311

Leveling Resources ...........................................................................................

317

Recalculating Resource and Role Assignment Costs .......................................

321

Managing Resource Assignments.....................................................................

323

Summarizing Projects .....................................................................

325

Setting Summarization Options ........................................................................

326

Summarizing Project Data ................................................................................

327

Managing Risks................................................................................

335

Adding Risks.....................................................................................................

336

Calculating Exposure Values ............................................................................

338

Calculating a Risk’s Impact ..............................................................................

339

Creating and Deleting Risk Types.....................................................................

340

Customizing Risk Layouts ................................................................................

341

Project Issues and Thresholds ........................................................

343

Adding Issues....................................................................................................

344

Assigning Tracking Layouts to Issues ..............................................................

348

Using the Issue Navigator .................................................................................

349

Adding Thresholds............................................................................................

350

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Threshold Parameter Definitions ......................................................................

353

Monitoring Thresholds .....................................................................................

357

Assigning Tracking Layouts to Thresholds ......................................................

358

Maintaining a Project’s Document Library ..................................

359

Viewing a Document Library and

 

Adding/Deleting Work Products and Documents...........................................

360

Specifying Document Location References .....................................................

362

Assigning Work Products and Documents .......................................................

363

Tracking Projects .............................................................................

365

Creating Tracking Layouts ...............................................................................

366

Working with Tracking Layouts .......................................................................

369

Customizing Tracking Layouts.........................................................................

370

Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data in Tracking Layouts.............................

372

Comparing Projects with Claim Digger ........................................

375

Claim Digger Overview....................................................................................

376

Comparing Projects/Baselines ..........................................................................

377

Comparison Data ..............................................................................................

384

Creating and Using Reflections ......................................................

391

Reflection Overview .........................................................................................

392

Creating and Using Reflections ........................................................................

393

Reflection Guidelines .......................................................................................

396

Checking Projects In and Out ........................................................

397

Managing Remote Projects...............................................................................

398

Checking Out Projects ......................................................................................

399

Checking In Projects.........................................................................................

401

Part 5: Customizing Projects

 

Working with Layouts .....................................................................

407

Layout Types ....................................................................................................

408

Creating, Opening, and Saving Layouts ...........................................................

414

Exporting and Importing Layouts.....................................................................

415

Copying and Pasting Resource Spreadsheet Data to Microsoft Excel .............

416

Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data...........................................

417

Grouping Data ..................................................................................................

418

Sorting Data ......................................................................................................

422

Filtering Data ....................................................................................................

423

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Customizing Layouts .......................................................................

427

Modifying Columns ..........................................................................................

428

Adjusting the Timescale....................................................................................

431

Formatting Gantt Charts....................................................................................

434

Formatting Activity Network Layouts ..............................................................

442

Modifying Resource and Activity Usage Profile Settings ................................

446

Customizing Reports .......................................................................

455

Reports Overview..............................................................................................

456

Opening Reports ...............................................................................................

457

Creating and Modifying Reports.......................................................................

458

Using the Report Editor ....................................................................................

461

Adding Data Sources and Rows to Reports ......................................................

465

Adding Text Cells to Reports............................................................................

469

Sorting Report Data Sources.............................................................................

477

Customizing a Report with the Report Editor: an Example..............................

478

Using Report Groups ........................................................................................

488

Setting Up Batch Reports..................................................................................

489

Printing Layouts and Reports.........................................................

491

Defining Page Settings ......................................................................................

492

Previewing Layouts and Reports.......................................................................

496

Printing Layouts and Reports............................................................................

497

Publishing Layouts and Reports in HTML Format...........................................

499

Publishing a Project on the World Wide Web...............................

501

Project Web Site Overview ...............................................................................

502

Publishing a Project Web Site ...........................................................................

504

Customizing the Appearance of a Project Web Site .........................................

506

Publishing Activity and Tracking Layouts........................................................

507

Linking the Project Management

 

and Contract Manager Modules ..................................................

509

Linking the Project Management Module to Contract Manager ......................

510

Linking a Project Management Project to a Contract Manager Project ...........

512

Importing Contract Manager Data to

 

a Project Management Module Project ...........................................................

514

Index..................................................................................................

517

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