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June 29, 2016December 3, 2021

Scheduling Process in Primavera P6

While using primavera p6, the scheduling process is divided into four main parts or steps:

Plan, update, review/ analyze and communicate.

In the first part we would focus on how to plan. It is very important to understand the contract and requirements given by the customer. It is very important for the scheduler as it may help in scheduling the updates. The documents should be well versed and capable of outlining the frequency which may refer to updates versus revisions, earned value requirements, cost and resource status requirements. it may also refer to change management procedures. These documents require specific software to be used.

Policies of the company, budgeting constraints for the project at hand and usage of application are the few important factors responsible for schedule update occurrence. When you maintain your record more frequently, get data of the built programs or data which is based on required periodic performance updates helps to figure out things more accurately and the people working on projects can work more effectively. It establishes greater accuracy, promotes timely issues/resolutions.

The starting point to which it can get back when some error or exception occurs during the update process.

In which the usage of layouts and reporting tools as well as predefined filters helps you enhance the functionality. These filters are based on standard rolling date as well as the scheduling data dates. Regular updates should be taken, in order to effectively record project progress consideration. Internal policies of the company, budgeting constraints for the project at hand and usage of application are the few important factors responsible for schedule update occurrence.

June 22, 2016December 3, 2021

PSGINCS.COM – A HOME FOR BEST SOLUTIONS

We address complex system of system challenges through tools , techniques and knowledge based system thinking while also recognizing that future systems require new thinking in complex domains such as cyber security, health care , data analytics, banking, transportation , government and aerospace.

oracle’s primavera portfolio solution is robust, easy to manage.

it’s key features include:

1. flexible user interface

2. team member interfaces for stating work

3. streamlined enterprise reporting

4. integrated risk management

5. resource management and optimization of views

6. workflow engine to automate business processes

the key benefits include:

1. unite project teams and stakeholders through collaboration and strong feedback methods

2. reduce the risk of costs and schedule overruns

3. optimize management of all resources

4. monitor and visualize project performance vs plans

5. confidently make and keep project commitments.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT – MATCHING PEOPLE WITH PROJECTS:

Support both top down and bottom up resource request and staffing processes . primavera P6 EPPM makes it a lot easier for projects and resource managers to communicate their requirements and decision throughout a project’s life cycle. By providing a graphical analysis of resource and role utilization . PRIMAVERA P6 EPPM helps project team manages resources in dynamic environments.

This allows managers to see where resources are being used across all programs and projects as well as their forecasted future use . because all information is located is localized and centralized system. resource conflicts become apparent to project and resource managers , eliminating un expected delays and unforeseen resource limitations . in result of this, there is greater visibility into resource demand and capacity means maximized resource use.

BUISNESS VALUE:

Oracle’s primavera P6 ENTERPRISE PORTFOLIO ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION helps organizations complete projects on time and with in budget by enabling them to prioritize plan, manage and evaluate projects, programs and portfolios across the enterprise.

ENSURE PROJECT DELIVERY SUCCESS FOR ALL YOUR PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS:

Primavera P6 EPPM is an integrated portfolio management application that includes role based functionality to match each team members’s needs and responsibilities. It provides executives with a real time view of their

organization’s project performance equips project participants with the right blend of usability , power and flexibility to effectively execute projects and enable workers across all levels of organization to analyze, record and communicate reliable information and make timely decisions.

primavera P6 EPPM can easily scale from a single user on a small project to tens of thousands of users engaged in millions of activities across hundreds of projects . the solution is built on a robust and proven standards based java architecture and is designed to deliver high performance with tight security , flexible integration and real time reporting including the analytics.

PORTFOLIO AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT – PRIORITIZING PROJECTS AND OPTIMIZING ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY:

With primavera P6 EPPM project managers can be confident that their projects and programs are aligned with company’s strategic goals and objectives that are in line.

by providing a consistent overview and analysis of the portfolio and program as projects are added and removed , this module enables project managers to manage incoming demand and select just the right balance.

June 15, 2016December 3, 2021

Process Improvement – Project Management

This article covers the organizational use of Primavera Software.

It mainly focus on the abundance of functionality in oracle primavera. unlocking and correctly using those capabilities is the key to maintaining a successful implementation. PSG consultants have extensive experience in all functional aspects of the Oracle Primavera application suite.

Our consultants can work through your business processes to ensure that the functional capabilities provided by the Oracle Primavera suite are leveraged in a cost efficient manner and to provide benefit to your users specific to accuracy, time-saving, reporting and ease of use.

Our Experience

Demonstrations

The Oracle Primavera manuals are good but sometimes there is no substitute for seeing the tool in action. Our consultants have demonstrated virtually every component of Oracle Primavera to audiences ranging from senior management to technical team members.

Process Design

To achieve an automated workflow that guides users through standard business processes, Oracle Primavera provides the mechanism to send actions to individuals to complete the steps identified. Escalation and reminder conditions can also be placed into the process to prevent bottlenecks.

When data changes, processes can react to the data change, allowing steps to be executed in an automated fashion to notify and ultimately rectify. PSG consultants have designed processes to aid in the compliance of many requirements (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley) to automate time approvals to facilitate conditional time approvals, define risk management processes, and outline project and program creation.

Financial Structure Maintenance

The financial capabilities within Oracle Primavera can appear to be complex in terms of all of the settings that need to be made, classifications to define, matrices, bill cycles, charge backs, etc. PSG consultants can work with your finance department to identify and install the financial attributes required to achieve a streamlined project accounting process. Furthermore, our technical staff we can establish a link between Oracle Primavera and your finance systems to provide transparency into all your portfolio investments.

Security Structure

The security functionality within Oracle Primavera allow for multiple levels of granularity :

Instance Based – Where the user has a specific right to an instance of an object e.g. an individual project.

OBS Based – Allowing on the organizational structure that has been defined for your company and linked to the many objects within Oracle Primavera e.g. Projects, Resources, Processes.

Global – Allowing users access to all instances of a particular object or defines an area of the application they can see (e.g. Administration)

Additionally, there is financial security which is governed by the entity structure defined as part of the financial setup i.e. membership to an entity gives certain restrictions on what a user will be able to do such as. Post to WIP or Billing, etc.

PSG consultants are be able to aid you in defining a security model which can be adapted easily for future changes without complicating the business. New users can then be identified by a particular role to be easily added to certain groups to enable set up and go on Oracle Primavera to ensure that the new starter process is more streamlined.

June 10, 2016December 3, 2021

Primavera Consultation Services

It is the most powerful, robust, and easy to use solution for globally prioritizing, planning, managing and executing projects, programs and portfolios. Primavera P6 is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy each team member’s needs, responsibilities and skills. It provides a single solution for managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels of complexities within a project, and intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your organization.

Primavera P6 provides executives with a real-time view of their organizations project, program and portfolio performance. It equips managers with the right blend of usability, power and flexibility to effectively and efficiently execute on projects, and enables individuals across all levels of an organization to analyze, record, and communicate reliable information and make timely informed decisions.

KEY BUSINESS BENEFITS

• Select the right strategic mix of projects

• Assure project, IT and corporate governance

• Enhance processes and methods

• Improve project team collaboration

• Measure progress toward objectives

• Complete more projects successfully and with the intended payback.

There are a number of consulting and implementation services provided by oracle Primavera P6 and it’s partners. They have a number of advertisers that help them with these services.

The list of these partners and advertisers are as follows:

1.Keen science pty limited

2.Insynchro group of industries

3.prescience technology

Keen Science Pty Ltd is a specialist portfolio, program and project management services provider. We operate in Australia, as well as internationally. We help our clients achieve their strategic goals through the combination of expert project management practices and industry recognised project management solutions. We deliver services and solutions that provide transparency and control over all aspects of the project delivery process.

With a strong focus on best practise, we have recognised the benefits of integrating technologies to strengthen the program and project governance structures and to deliver productivity benefits.

We advocate the application of fully integrated project management tools to deliver total project controls solution and provide the client organisation with auditable and evidence based information to ensure their projects are delivered on time, on budget and within the specified scope. Our approach of fully integrated systems increase the visibility of performance trends and provide early warning indicators, as well as delivering tailored reporting to meet the client requirements.

Our consulting team can design, develop and implement these multidimensional control systems, as well as provide the expertise to operate them.

IGC:

Insynchro has more than 15 years of experience in designing, implementing and supporting highly effective integrated project controls solutions.

Our clients represent most industry sectors as well as government, and the solutions we have implemented range from controls for a single-project through to enterprise-wide systems for project intensive multinational organizations.

Our offering combines industry expertise with precise implementation skills which enables us to develop functional solutions that help our clients realize the full potential of each project, and simplify the process of maintaining control over multiple projects.

May 28, 2016December 3, 2021

PRIMAVERA P6 DEMO

LEARN HOW P6 CAN HELP YOU BETTER INNOVATE AND TRANSFORM YOUR ORGANIZATION.

Oracle’s primavera P6 enterprise project portfolio management is a software that is powerful, robust and easy to use. The software is used globally for prioritizing, planning, managing and executing projects, portfolios and programs. Primavera P6 EPPM, enterprise portfolio management is one of its kind.

It is an integrated system that provides solution to number of problems mainly focusing on role- specific functionality. Which is very important is satisfying each team member’s needs, responsibilities and skills. It provides a single solution for management of project of any size, adapting itself to various level of complexities within the project in progress and intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles in a team.

The source for your project management software and program management software is critical business analysis. It intelligently scales the skill level and functional needs in your organization and in your project team.

This article will mainly cover primavera P6 EPPM. This article will help you learn how to better innovate and transform your organization in a bigger better form.

The first and foremost advantage of primavera software is you meet the ultimate end to end solution of your problems.

Following things can be enhanced:

Governance:

Governance can be enhanced through

– Business process automation

– Project templates

– Use productivity kit (UPK)

– Easy reporting via Bi publisher

Inclusivity:

– 100 % web

– Rich forms enable alternative UI

– new capabilities of all roles

– enhanced p6 client

PREDICTABILITY:

-Integrated risk management

-Schedule checker

-Schedule preview

-Standardized reporting

OPTIMIZATION:

– enhanced resource management

– performance and scalability

– integration with oracle technologies

– streamlined architecture.

The main benefits include:

Project planning
Project scheduling ( for both large scale and individual)
Select the right strategic mix of projects
Balance resource capacity
Allocate best resources and track progress
Monitor and visualize project performance
Foster team collaboration
Integrate with financial management
Integrate with human capital management systems
Improve communication between team members and project managers.

The primavera P6 EPPM demo gives you:

ONE SOLUTION:

To drive visibility to the entire innovation lifecycle across the business and IT, aligning resources, requirements and schedules. Using business strategy.

TRADITIONAL METHODOLOGIES:

Clearly and quickly prioritize and manage results with one solution. Only primavera EPPM ( enterprise portfolio project managment) can do this.

STRATEGIC PORTFOLIO PLANNING:

It follows top-down strategic planning to bottom-up project and program management automating investment planning keeping the business in line with IT.

PSG has a wide range of skilled trainers who assist clients from a broad range of industries on long and short term project engagements, and small level and large level investments.

Being armed with comprehensive insight into demand the full cost of building and running all services, Which includes resource allocation and value of business initiative . It combines to give a firm foundation for making any decision around the portfolio services.

May 25, 2016December 3, 2021

Primavera P6 Analytic Release

AN IMPORTANT ADDITION TO PRIMAVERA TRAINING.

The Primavera P6 Analytics Rel 8.x course is suitable for administrators and end-users alike who use Primavera P6 Analytics (R1.2) with Primavera P6 R8.0 or R8.1 Students will learn how to use P6 project management data to create basic requests, create filters, build views and charts in requests, establish gauge views, pivot tables and create dashboards. Oracle BI Publisher and BI Deliver are covered in this course.

IT IS A TWO DAYS COURSE.

THE AUDIENCE INCLUDES:

Project managers, functional implementers, administrators.

Pre requisite:

There are no pre requisites.

Before getting to know what this course offers, we need to understand what is primavera analytics.

Oracle’s Primavera Analytics is a packaged business intelligence solution that provides valuable Insights into your projects and portfolios in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Primavera Unifier so you can uncover trends and identify issues before they escalate, helping you to make better, informed decisions

The most important factor of primavera analytics is handling projects with ease.

That may include Gain unprecedented visibility into your Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Primavera Unifier projects and portfolios. Uncover trends, discover the root cause of issues, forecast costs, and improve strategic and project-level decision-making.

Some of the best practices in industry regarding analytics:

Oracle has collected years of best-practice metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), reports and scorecards from project, program and portfolio managers to create Primavera Analytics. By implementing Primavera Analytics, you will immediately reap the benefits of proven methods of enhanced resource analysis, variance analysis, earned value management, and cost and schedule performance.

With Primavera Analytics, you can leverage the power and flexibility of the Oracle

Business Intelligence platform to add your own reports, scorecards and KPIs to the

solution beyond the pre-configured set of dashboards you receive. You have full control to modify the default dashboards and can build your own report.

Gain a clear understanding of project and program schedule and cost performance this bringing attention to problems.

SUBJECTS COVERED IN PRIMAVERA P6 ANALYTICS TRAINING:

Creating Requests
Filtering Requests
Creating Charts & Working with Views
Creating Gauge Views & Pivot Tables
BI Dashboards
About BI Publisher
About BI Delivers

KEY POINTS IN LEARNING:

Build Dashboards
Create Pivot Tables
Use BI Publisher
Create Requests & Charts
Work with Views
Filter Requests

OUTCOMES INCLUDE:

Create Requests
Filter Requests
Create Charts
Work with Views
Create Gauge Views Create Pivot Tables
Build Dashboards
Use BI Delivers
Use BI Publisher

This training course will help you in following way:

Uncover deep insights into projects, as well as complete history and trends over time
Quickly identify potential performance issues
Correct problems throughout the project lifecycle
Make better project portfolio decisions

Usually the resources you have in primavera analytics includes:

White papers

Business briefs

Webcasts

Assessment tools

Productivity kits

May 10, 2016December 3, 2021

Are Committed Services Successfully Delivered Too?

The services thus delivered are beyond expectations, our main aim to deliver success to our clients. The success depends highly on the frequency on which your partner thinks as well as the benefits he need to gain from the project; need to be same as yours. PSGINCS supports the entire business and technology life cycle. From strategic planning to PMO development, quality assurance, implementation and post production support. When it comes to commitment to success, our commitment to success maximizes the client’s existing skills and automatically lowers your cost of ownership of Oracle Primavera P6.

The modern enterprises face tough competitions as well as complex enterprise and management systems thus requiring the efficient delivery and maintenance of resources.

Therefore on one hand they must obtain real time data about project operation, and on the other gain insight into their own competitive advantages.

Know with confidence that you are making informed business decisions that will be a positive blow to your business strategic and productive development. Response time and efficient services are critical to every situation, and they all should go hand in hand for best performance deliveries.

Providing timely and effective delivery of PMO. Planning and coordination of resources are the entire basis on which the success of a project stands.

Alignment between company strategy, execution and results is highly essential to maintain the work flow of project. By serving all vertical markets we tend to assure the best delivery of services and deployment of tools at their best.

Our success is predicated to the integrity of solutions we deliver.

May 6, 2016December 3, 2021

Primavera P6 Training

3 DAYS COURSE

This training class utilizes P6 PPM, Primavera Client/Server Project Management tool.

The class leads participants through the entire project life cycle, from planning projects through execution of detailed work. Students will learn to: add activities, assign resources, create baselines and much more on the core principles on project, schedule & cost. This Course Includes: All course material, software for use during training, 30 days login access to training platform. One-on-one follow-up, Mentoring and Certificate of training completion. Course Times: 9:00am to 4:30pm Local Time.

AUDIENCE: Construction & Engineering Professionals, Project Managers, Schedulers, Admin’s

PREREQUISITE: Basic project management and scheduling knowledge. No previous experience working with Primavera software required

Suggested pre requisites include:

Knowledge of project management principles

COURSE OUTCOMES

Getting started Primavera P6 Professional
The Project Management Life-cycle
P6 user interface & navigation
Project Creation
Process Group
P6 interface and navigation
Enterprise Project Structures
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Relationships and Constraints
Formatting Project Data
Resources & Costs
P6 Baselines
Reporting
P6 user interface and navigation
Customizing the P6 views and layouts
Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
Understanding the purpose of the Enterprise Project Structure
Modifying the Enterprise Project Structure
Creating a new project
Understanding the project status options
Modifying project settings
Creating and using project codes
Preparation of a best-practice WBS
Creating a WBS in P6
Modifying the WBS elements
Activity types and their importance in the schedule
Creating new activities
Creating and assigning activity codes
Relationship types in P6
Understanding Critical Path Method (CPM)
Applying constraints to activities
Adjusting the duration and finish date of your project
Using filters to control the data displayed
Creating resources
Assigning resources to activities
Working with the Resource Usage Profile
Mitigating resource overloads
Baselining P6 project schedules
Running reports from a layout
Creating and running reports using the reporting wizard

What will you learn?

This Primavera P6 Fundamentals training will teach you how to create a project, add activities and relationships, assign resources, adjust the project plan to account for schedule delays and over-allocated resources and analyze portfolios. You’ll also learn how to customize the Personal Workspace and the Project Workspace to monitor project progress and communicate with team members.

Learn To:

Create a project.
Add activities.
Create relationships.
Assign and analyze resources.
Analyze project performance.
Execute and control the project.
Customize dashboards and the Project Workspace.
View reports etc.

4-Part Course Structure

This course uses P6, Primavera’s Web-based project management tool. It is divided into four sections: Overview and Creating a Project, Scheduling the Project and Managing Data, Assigning different Resources and Base lining and Project Execution and Control.

Please Note

This course uses the P6 Web interface. Oracle BI and BPM are not covered in this course.

May 3, 2016December 3, 2021

Primavera P6 Training Classes

As mentioned in our previous articles introductory articles to training

Training is a very essential tool in any kind of resourceful work. If you do not train your employs right.

There are a number of ways the work can go wrong causing downfall to your organization. The presumed goal of training software project managers is to equip them with the knowledge and competencies that will help them to be successful in different domains regarding the domain of Software project management.

Now we focus on different classes provided by ORACLE for the training of their project managers. Which are discussed in detail as follows:

Main topics covered in Primavera P6 PPM fundamental is as follows:

Project Management Life Cycle
Understanding P6 Data
Creating a Project
Establishing Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Adding Activities & Using Activity Views
Creating Relationships
Project scheduling (CPM)
Assigning constraints
Using reflection projects
Resource and roles
Baselines
Project reporting

TOPICS included in Primavera P6 PPM advanced are:

Creating Resource teams and roles
Managing multiple projects
Advanced resource planning
Managing and allocation of resource requests
Advanced scheduling methods
Advanced project reporting

Topics covered in Primavera P6 EPPM fundamental is as follows:

What You Will Learn: Defining the Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
Describing the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
Creating a Project
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Activities & Views
Relationships
Scheduling
Constraints
Project Workspace
Roles Resources
Baselining
Dashboards & Portfolios
Managing Issues & Risk

Primavera P6 EPPM advanced covers the following topics:

Creating Resource Teams and Roles
Analyzing Portfolio Details
Viewing Portfolio Performance
High-Level Resource Planning
Managing Allocations
Staffing Resource Requests
Resource Leveling
Advanced Scheduling Techniques
Reports

Primavera P6 Application Administration includes following classes.

Working with Data Structures
Working with Enterprise Data
Managing Users
Resource Administration
Global Dashboards & Views
Portlets
Managing Services
Portfolios
Application Settings
Project Portfolios Routine Maintenance

These courses are of different durations and hold different pre requisites as well. A person interested in opting any one of them need to pick exactly what he requires, which can be found in the vast domains of primavera P6 Training classes. The class leads participants through the entire project life cycle, from planning projects through execution of detailed work. Using a proven approach, our Oracle Certified training is centered on transferring the skills and best practices used by our Primavera consultants to solve your real world project challenges. PSG’s Primavera training workshops can by request, be delivered in 1/2 day sessions for your convenience at an additional fee.

For registering in any of the above mentioned classes , click on the link below:

http://www.psgincs.com/course-detail-page.php?courseId=6

April 23, 2016December 3, 2021

Benefits and Drawbacks of Email Marketing

In this article we are discussing how to earn through websites, major different steps with its benefits and drawbacks would be discussed, this is the fourth article to his series, which discusses the drawbacks and benefits of email marketing.

In order to start collecting emails, you need to sign up for Aweber which hosts your emails, allows you to send messages to them, create follow up campaigns, split test etc.

Personally I would say you should also pick up Popup Domination, because it’s the best thing for email marketing. About 85% of my subscribers sign up via it, 10% from my squeeze page and 5% from other options. Over half of all people that use the internet use and send email every day. Email marketing can be an economical and highly effective way to get your business on the map. Here is why email marketing can be a successful addition to your marketing needs.

It’s easy and it’s simple. Anyone can do it anytime using simple tools. This method allows you to use the mailing list which gives you the ability to distribute information to a wide range of specific, potential clients at a low cost to you.

Benefits:

Very direct way to market.

One email can make you thousands.

Anyone can do it.

Considered by most to be the no1 way to make money online consistently.

Drawbacks:

Always require new leads.

If subscribers don’t like your emails, they will unsubscribe.

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Scheduling Process in Primavera P6

PSGINCS.COM – A HOME FOR BEST SOLUTIONS

Process Improvement – Project Management

Our Experience

Demonstrations

Process Design

Financial Structure Maintenance

Security Structure

Primavera Consultation Services

PRIMAVERA P6 DEMO

Primavera P6 Analytic Release

Are Committed Services Successfully Delivered Too?

Primavera P6 Training

Primavera P6 Training Classes

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