Description

Enhance your skills in formatting, printing, and generating reports using Oracle Primavera Project Manager P6 PPM Professional Client. This intermediate-level course provides practical techniques to effectively manage projects and optimize your project management processes.

Oracle Primavera is a comprehensive enterprise project portfolio management software that offers a wide range of features, including project management, scheduling, risk analysis, resource management, collaboration, and integration with other enterprise software systems like Oracle and SAP ERP. In this course, you will gain in-depth knowledge of planning, scheduling, and controlling projects using Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional. The course begins with a solid understanding of the software's fundamentals and progresses to cover formatting the display, group, sort, and layout functionalities, as well as applying and creating filters. You will also explore printing, generating reports, and utilizing the visualizer tool. Additionally, you will discover alternative methods for organizing project data effectively. By the end of this course, you will have acquired the necessary skills to format, print, and run reports using Oracle Primavera Project Manager P6 PPM Professional Client, empowering you to efficiently manage projects.

What You Will Learn

Gain insights into layouts and filtering options
Master the art of formatting bars and progress line displays on the Gantt chart
Explore techniques for grouping, sorting, and laying out project data
Understand the use of filters, and learn how to apply, create, and modify them
Learn the process of executing printing, generating reports, and utilizing the visualizer tool
Discover alternative methods for organizing project data efficiently

Audience

This course is best suited for program managers and project control staff evaluating the software against your organizational requirements, project schedulers who wish to use the software to schedule and control projects, database managers who wish to understand how to set up and administer a database, and experienced project personnel who wish to learn how to schedule and control a project.

You will need a computer with Primavera; Microsoft Office proficiency is required as a prerequisite. Understanding project planning, scheduling, control, and management processes is necessary.

Approach

With a learner-centric approach, this course provides clear explanations of concepts, followed by practical demonstrations of software functionality, and reinforces learning through interactive student workshops.

Key Features

Hands-on workshops focusing on formatting the bar chart and organizing project data * Workshop on effective techniques for using filters and printing in Oracle Primavera P6 * Workshop to creating and utilizing activity codes and UDF to enhance project organization

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https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Formatting-Printing-and-Reporting-with-Oracle-Primavera-P6-PPM

About the Author

Paul E. Harris

Paul E. Harris holds an honors degree in civil engineering obtained in the UK and is a certified cost engineer through AACEI International, a PRINCE2 registered practitioner, and a 'Managing Successful Programs' registered practitioner. He has worked in the project controls industry for a number of years and has assisted many companies in a range of industries to set up and run project control systems. His Melbourne, Australia-based company, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd., offers project controls consulting and training services worldwide with a strong focus on Microsoft Project and Oracle Primavera software.

Course Outline

1. Introduction to the Course

This section provides an introduction to the course.

1. Introduction and Workshop Instructions on Formatting, Printing, and Reports

This video provides an overview of the course and instructions on some basic prerequisites and steps to be taken to take advantage of the course to the fullest.

2. Formatting the Display

This section focuses on formatting the display.

1. Introduction

This video provides an introduction to this section on formatting the display part.

2. Project Window, Understanding Forms, Formatting the Bars, Progress Lines

Explore the project window, gain understanding of forms, learn how to format bars, and work with progress lines in this comprehensive video.

3. Columns, Row Height, Timescale, Attachments, Fonts, Colors, and Line Numbers

Discover how to manipulate columns, adjust row height, manage timescale, handle attachments, play with fonts and colors, and work with line numbers in this informative video.

4. Summary

Summarizing the section on formatting the display, this video recaps the key concepts covered so far.

5. Workshop - Formatting the Bar Chart

Dive into the practical side as this video guides you through hands-on exercises on formatting bar charts.

3. Group, Sort, and Layout

This section focuses on group, sort, and layout on group, sort, and layout.

1. Introduction

Get introduced to the section on group, sort, and layout, and understand the significance of these features in project management.

2. Group and Sort Activities and Understanding Layouts

Learn how to effectively group and sort activities and gain insights into understanding and optimizing project layouts in this instructional video.

3. Summary

Summarizing the section on group, sort, and layout, this video provides a concise overview of the concepts covered thus far.

4. Workshop - Organizing Your Data

Engage in a workshop-style video where you will acquire practical skills for organizing your project data efficiently.

4. Filters

This section talks about filters.

1. Introduction

This video provides an introduction to the section on filters, explaining their importance in streamlining project data.

2. Understanding Filters, Applying a Filter, Creating and Modifying a Filter

Gain a deep understanding of filters, learn how to apply them to your project data, and discover the process of creating and modifying filters in this comprehensive video.

3. Activity: Critical Path Visibility

Participate in an activity-based video focusing on critical path visibility and how filters can enhance your understanding of it.

4. Summary

Recapping the section on filters, this video provides a concise summary of the concepts covered so far.

5. Workshop - Filters

Put your knowledge into practice as this video guides you through the process of creating filters to accomplish specific project activities.

5. Printing, Reports, and Visualizer

This section focuses on printing, reports, and visualizer.

1. Introduction

This video introduces the topics of printing, reports, and the visualizer, highlighting their significance in project management.

2. Printing

Explore the intricacies of printing project data as this video covers various aspects related to printing in project management.

3. Reports

Delve into the world of project reports as this video discusses different types of reports and their importance in project analysis.

4. Publish to a Website

Discover the "Publish Project Website" function that enables you to share project data on a website, allowing easy access and collaboration.

5. Visualizer

Understand the visualizer, a powerful graphics reporting tool, and learn how to leverage its capabilities for effective project communication.

6. Claim Digger - Schedule Comparison

Uncover the benefits of Claim Digger, a tool that enables you to compare and evaluate changes made to project schedules in later versions of a report.

7. Summary

Summarizing the section on printing, reports, and the visualizer, this video provides a concise overview of the concepts covered so far.

8. Workshop - Printing

Engage in a workshop-style video where you will issue a report for management feedback and learn how to set up headers and footers for your project documents.

6. Other Methods of Organizing Project Data

This section explains other methods of organizing project data.

1. Introduction

Get introduced to the section on other methods of organizing project data and understand their role in efficient project management.

2. Understanding Project Breakdown Structures

This video provides a comprehensive understanding of project breakdown structures and their significance in organizing project data effectively.

3. Activity Codes, UDFs, WBS Category, Resource Codes, Cost Accounts

Explore various methods such as activity codes, user-defined fields (UDFs), WBS categories, resource codes, and cost accounts for organizing project data in this informative video.

4. Assignment Codes and Role Codes

Discover the features of assignment codes and role codes, gaining an overview of how they enhance project organization and management.

5. Summary

Summarizing the section on other methods of organizing project data, this video provides a concise overview of the concepts covered so far.

6. Workshop - Activity Codes and User-Defined Fields (UDFs)

Engage in a workshop-style video where you will create activity codes to represent project departments' responsibilities and learn how to utilize user-defined fields (UDFs) effectively.

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