
- •Table of Contents
- •Preface
- •Primavera Products
- •Using Documentation and Help
- •Where to Get Support
- •Understanding Project Management
- •Why Use Project Portfolio Management?
- •Your Role in the Organization
- •Project Management Process Overview
- •Planning, Controlling, and Managing Projects
- •Quick Tour
- •Getting Started
- •Selecting a Language
- •The Workspace
- •What Is a Layout?
- •Customizing Displays
- •Sample Layouts
- •Using Wizards
- •Defining Administrative Preferences and Categories
- •Defining Default Settings
- •Allowing Users to Define the Default Hours per Time Period
- •Defining Standard Categories and Values
- •Defining Currencies
- •Setting User Preferences
- •Formatting Time Units
- •Formatting Dates
- •Setting View Currency and Symbols
- •Setting Mail Preferences
- •Implementing Wizards
- •Creating a Log of Tasks and Setting Startup, Group and Sort, and Column Options
- •Changing Your Password
- •Setting Profile and Spreadsheet Data Options
- •Setting Calculation Options for Resource and Role Assignments
- •Selecting Startup Filters
- •Structuring Projects
- •Setting Up the Enterprise Project Structure
- •Enterprise Project Structure Overview
- •Summarizing Projects
- •Setting Up the Enterprise Project Structure
- •Adding a New Project to the Enterprise Project Structure
- •Using Project Architect
- •Working with the Enterprise Project Structure
- •Using Root Nodes to Denote Project Status
- •Defining Enterprise Project Structure Details
- •Leveling Priority
- •Anticipated Dates
- •Auto-Numbering Activity IDs
- •Setting Up the Organizational Breakdown Structure
- •Viewing an OBS
- •Setting Up an OBS
- •Editing OBS Elements
- •Defining Resources and Roles
- •Resources Overview
- •Viewing and Adding Resources
- •Default Units/Time
- •Using Limits for Delayed Resource Start
- •Defining Resource Shifts
- •Defining and Assigning Resource Codes and Values
- •Setting Up Roles
- •Assigning Roles to Resources
- •Defining Custom Resource Curves
- •Reviewing Work Breakdown Structures
- •Viewing a WBS
- •Grouping by WBS Path
- •Adding WBS Elements and Assigning Properties
- •Using WBS Milestones
- •How Weights Affect Percent Complete
- •Assigning WBS Category Values
- •Defining Earned Value Settings for Specific WBS Elements
- •Assigning Estimation Weights to WBS Elements
- •Defining Budgets
- •Top-Down Budgeting
- •Establishing Budgets
- •Establishing a Monthly Spending Plan
- •Tracking Budget Changes
- •Establishing Funding
- •Tracking and Analyzing Budgets
- •Establishing Project Codes
- •Defining and Assigning Project Codes
- •Grouping, Summarizing, and Filtering by Codes
- •Working With User-Defined Fields
- •Creating User-Defined Fields
- •Working with User-Defined Fields
- •Working with Indicators
- •Creating Calendars
- •Adding Calendars
- •Modifying Calendars
- •Implementing the Schedule
- •Establishing Activity Codes
- •Creating Activity Codes and Values
- •Grouping and Summarizing by Codes
- •Working with Activities
- •Activities Overview
- •Adding Activities
- •Defining General Activity Information
- •Defining Schedule Information
- •Establishing Relationships
- •Dissolving Activities
- •Displaying Activity Details for Assignments
- •Assigning Resources and Roles
- •Recalculating Costs/Units for Assignments
- •Choosing the Rate Source and Rate Type for an Assignment
- •Assigning Resource Curves to Resource or Role Assignments
- •Manually Planning Future Period Assignments
- •Assigning Activity Codes and Adding Expenses
- •Viewing Activity Feedback and Posting Resource Notes
- •Assigning Work Products and Documents
- •Adding Steps
- •Setting Options for Using Weighted Steps
- •Creating and Assigning Activity Step Templates
- •Viewing Activity Summaries
- •Viewing Contract Manager Documents
- •Using Global Change
- •Working with Cost Accounts and Project Expenses
- •Cost Account and Expense Overview
- •Setting Up a Cost Account Structure
- •Adding Expenses and Entering Cost Information
- •Defining Expense Details
- •Analyzing Costs
- •Performing Top-down Estimation
- •Performing Top-down Estimation
- •Applying Saved Top-Down Estimates To a Project
- •Managing Baselines
- •Creating and Maintaining Baselines
- •Assigning Baselines to Projects
- •Comparing Current and Baseline Schedules
- •Updating Baselines
- •Ensuring Baseline Data Is Updated
- •Updating, Scheduling, and Leveling
- •The Update Process
- •Choosing a Method of Updating
- •Highlighting Activities for Updating
- •Updating Progress for Spotlighted Activities
- •Estimating Progress Automatically
- •Setting Auto Compute Actuals
- •Updating Using Timesheets
- •Updating Activities Manually
- •Removing Progress from Activities
- •Interrupting Activity Progress
- •Applying Actuals
- •Storing Period Performance (Past Period Actuals)
- •Scheduling Projects
- •Types of Activity Dates
- •Leveling Resources
- •Recalculating Resource and Role Assignment Costs
- •Managing Resource Assignments
- •Summarizing Projects
- •Setting Summarization Options
- •Summarizing Project Data
- •How Data Is Summarized
- •Managing Risks
- •Adding Risks
- •Calculating Exposure Values
- •Calculating a Risk’s Impact
- •Creating and Deleting Risk Types
- •Customizing Risk Layouts
- •Project Issues and Thresholds
- •Adding Issues
- •Assigning Tracking Layouts to Issues
- •Using the Issue Navigator
- •Adding Thresholds
- •Threshold Parameter Definitions
- •Monitoring Thresholds
- •Assigning Tracking Layouts to Thresholds
- •Maintaining a Project’s Document Library
- •Specifying Document Location References
- •Assigning Work Products and Documents
- •Tracking Projects
- •Creating Tracking Layouts
- •Working with Tracking Layouts
- •Customizing Tracking Layouts
- •Comparing Projects with Claim Digger
- •Claim Digger Overview
- •Comparing Projects/Baselines
- •Comparison Data
- •Creating and Using Reflections
- •Reflection Overview
- •Creating and Using Reflections
- •Reflection Guidelines
- •Checking Projects In and Out
- •Managing Remote Projects
- •Checking Out Projects
- •Checking In Projects
- •Customizing Projects
- •Working with Layouts
- •Layout Types
- •Creating, Opening, and Saving Layouts
- •Exporting and Importing Layouts
- •Copying and Pasting Resource Spreadsheet Data to Microsoft Excel
- •Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data
- •Grouping Data
- •Sorting Data
- •Reorganizing Data
- •Filtering Data
- •Combining Filters
- •Customizing Layouts
- •Modifying Columns
- •Adjusting the Timescale
- •Formatting Gantt Charts
- •Formatting Activity Network Layouts
- •Modifying Resource and Activity Usage Profile Settings
- •Customizing Reports
- •Reports Overview
- •Opening Reports
- •Creating and Modifying Reports
- •Using the Report Editor
- •Adding Data Sources and Rows to Reports
- •Adding Text Cells to Reports
- •Sorting Report Data Sources
- •Customizing a Report with the Report Editor: an Example
- •Using Report Groups
- •Setting Up Batch Reports
- •Printing Layouts and Reports
- •Defining Page Settings
- •Previewing Layouts and Reports
- •Printing Layouts and Reports
- •Selecting a Printer
- •Publishing Layouts and Reports in HTML Format
- •Publishing a Project on the World Wide Web
- •Project Web Site Overview
- •Publishing a Project Web Site
- •Customizing the Appearance of a Project Web Site
- •Publishing Activity and Tracking Layouts
- •Linking the Project Management and Contract Manager Modules
- •Linking the Project Management Module to Contract Manager
- •Linking a Project Management Project to a Contract Manager Project
- •Importing Contract Manager Data to a Project Management Module Project
- •Index

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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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