Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 Professional 18 for Planners and Engineers

Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 Professional 18 for Planners and Engineers

Covers:
• Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
• Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS)
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Calendars
• Activities and Establishing Relationships
• Resources and Roles
• Risks and Issues
• Baselines and Tracking Progress
• Project Expenses and Generating Reports

Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 Professional 18 for Planners and Engineers textbook introduces the readers to the practices and concepts of Project Management using Primavera software. The textbook covers the essentials concepts of Project Management such as planning, controlling, and managing projects. After reading this textbook, you will be able to use tools in Primavera for creating EPS, WBS, activities, and resources as well as for generating reports of the project. This textbook is specially meant for professionals and students of civil engineering, project management, and allied fields in the building industry.

The salient features of the textbook are as follows:

Project-Based Approach: The author has adopted the project based-theme and the learn-by-doing approach in the textbook. This approach helps the user perform various operations on the Civil and project management datasets with ease.

Real-World Projects as Tutorials: The author has used about 15 real-world projects as tutorials in this textbook. This enables the readers to relate the tutorial to the real-world for managing projects. In addition, there are about 10 exercises based on the real-world projects that allow the users to apply the skills learned in the text

Tips and Notes: The additional information related to various topics is provided to the users in the form of tips and notes.

Learning Objectives: The first page of every chapter summarizes the topics that are covered in that chapter.

Self-Evaluation Test, Review Questions, and Exercises: Every chapter ends with a Self-Evaluation test so that the users can assess their knowledge of the chapter. The answer to the Self-Evaluation Test is given at the end of the chapter. Also, Review Questions and Exercises are given at the end of chapters and they can be used by the instructor as test questions and exercises.

Free Resources for Faculty and Students:
• Online technical support
• All models used in the tutorial exercises*, and illustrations.
• Instructor Guide with solutions to all review questions and exercises*
• Additional learning resources at http://pmpxperts.blogspot.com and youtube.com/cadimtech
(*for faculty only)

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Primavera P6 Professional 18

Chapter 2: Creating Projects

Chapter 3: Defining Calendars and Breakdown Structure

Chapter 4: Working with Activities and Establishing Relationships

Chapter 5: Defining Resources and Roles

Chapter 6: Risks and Issues, and Setting Baselines

Chapter 7: Projects Expenses and Tracking Progress of Projects

Chapter 8: Printing Layouts and Reports