This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on using Primavera Client version 6. It includes sections on what's new in version 6 like reflections projects and future bucket planning. It also covers topics like exporting and importing projects, useful global changes, coding and WBS shortcuts, finding activities, resource loading, schedule crashing, advanced layouts, baselines, and more. The presentation aims to demonstrate tips, tricks, and best practices for effectively using the Primavera Client scheduling software.
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They are hiring the professionals who are certified in this domain to improve productivity and avoid skills gap.
Focus has provided cost-effective and innovative project management, engineering, procurement, and construction management services to the oil and gas industry since 1973.
When it comes to project management, Primavera P6 stands out from the crowd as a standardized solution for multiple project management tasks. Companies are getting crazy about this Primavera due to the project management capabilities it has.
They are hiring the professionals who are certified in this domain to improve productivity and avoid skills gap.
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This course is a detailed course about Primavera Project Management.
The course contains so many details about the software and its relation to the project management science.
the material consists of 7 sessions.
this material is a primer effort and might be updated then uploaded.
I hope it will be beneficial to the persons who cares about project management.
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- Overview of the LegacyToWindows Migration Project Blueprint - a formal & thorough approach to your migration project;
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Blog: https://agile-mercurial.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPM82of2YuqIR1SgLGHa1eg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/agile_mercurial
Tumblr: https://agilemercurial.tumblr.com/
This course is a detailed course about Primavera Project Management.
The course contains so many details about the software and its relation to the project management science.
the material consists of 7 sessions.
this material is a primer effort and might be updated then uploaded.
I hope it will be beneficial to the persons who cares about project management.
egacy-to-Windows Conversion: Your Migration Jump StartUiPathCommunity
Agenda
The focus of our meetup is around the following topics:
- Understanding the need for Legacy-To-Windows migration;
- Migration in a Nutshell;
- Overview of the LegacyToWindows Migration Project Blueprint - a formal & thorough approach to your migration project;
- UiPath's standpoint, views and road forward;
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For more information see https://jazz.net/library/article/593
Details
Rational Team Concert (RTC) provides a lightweight tool to help project teams plan, executing and monitor agile, waterfall and scaled agile development projects (such as Scrum, Scrum of Scrums, Disciplined Agile Delivery - DAD, or Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe.
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For waterfall projects / programs, RTC provides development teams with traditional project management capabilities such as work breakdown structures, schedule dependencies, constraints and Gantt charts.
http://rational-tools.info
Ad hoc planning and operational management. The module of the visualization of the ClearQuest tasks hierarchy as Gantt diagram.
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The new version 1.3 of GanttChart for ClearQuest is available!
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The module is made in the form of Plug-in for IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.0 and upper. This module is intended for every person who uses IBM Rational ClearQuest and is short of project management capabilities. The module does not substitute for existing project management tools but adds the operational sections into IBM Rational. For the most experienced users the functions of this module will be absolutely enough for ad hoc planning and operational management of their projects. The module has no analogues in the world!
CM-Consult GanttChart is featured in the IBM Global Solutions Directory ID 41151
MIS485 Capstone Project in MIS 2MGT 400 - Project MIlonaThornburg83
MIS485: Capstone Project
in MIS
2MGT 400 - Project Management
Textbook: Farrell, P. J., (2017). IT Capstone
Project (3rd Edition), Kendall Hunt
Publishing.
3MGT 400 - Project Management
4MGT 400 - Project Management
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
HANDOUT- I
Managing the Information Systems
Project:
Defining and Planning an information
system project
Introduction
• Project management (PM) may be the most important aspect of systems
development.
• Effective PM helps to ensure
• The meeting of customer expectations.
• The satisfying of budget and time constraints.
• The nature of projects has changed from custom development to
implementing packaged software such as ERP and data warehousing.
• PM needs to be able to work well with vendors and diverse user
community.
Pine Valley Application Project
Three computer applications at Pine Valley Furniture: order filling, invoicing,
and payroll
(Source: Hoffer, Ramesh, and Topi, Modern Database Management 11th ed. 2013)
Managing the Information Systems
Project
• Project
• A planned undertaking of related activities to reach an objective that has a
beginning and an end
• Project management
• A controlled process of initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a
project
Managing the Information Systems
Project (cont.)
• Project manager
• A systems analyst with a diverse set of skills—management, leadership,
technical, conflict management, and customer relationship—who is responsible
for initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project
• Deliverable
• The end product of an SDLC phase
Deciding on Systems Projects
• System Service Request (SSR)
• A standard form for requesting or proposing systems development work within
an organization
• Feasibility study
• A study that determines whether a requested system makes economic and
operational sense for an organization
Project Management Activities
A project manager
juggles numerous
activities
Phases of Project Management
Process
•Phase 1: Initiation
•Phase 2: Planning
•Phase 3: Execution
•Phase 4: Closedown
PM Phase 1: Project Initiation
• Assess size, scope and complexity, and establish
procedures.
• Establish:
• Initiation team
• Relationship with customer
• Project initiation plan
• Management procedures
• Project management environment and workbook
• Project charter
FIGURE 3-6
The project workbook for
the Purchasing
Fulfillment System
project contains nine key
elements
Project workbook
An online or hard-copy repository for all
project correspondence, inputs, outputs,
deliverables, procedures, and
standards. Used for performing project
audits, orienting new team members,
communicating with management and
customers, identifying future projects,
and performing post-project reviews.
Project Charter
• A short document prepared for the customer describing
project deliverables and outlining the work required to
complete the project
...
Applying Agile principles, principles, and processes to the CODE
program. Building the Release Plan for each program event and the deliverables for that review.
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Session Overview
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P6 tips tricks-client
1. Tips Tricks with Version Six (Client)
Don Louser PMP, PMA Consultants LLC
2. Give Us Your Card
• There are more items in this presentation than we will
have time to demonstrate
• Give us your business card and we will send you the
entire presentation complete with notes
• Or, contact me @ dlouser@pmaconsultants.com
2
3. What we have for you today...
• What’s New in Client v. 6.0 (Slides 1-20)
• Use of Indicators (Slide 21)
• Global Changes – De-status the Schedule (Slides 22-26)
• Global Changes – Change WBS from Filters (Slide 27)
• Export and Importing Projects (Slides 28-39)
• Project details that are often forgotten (Slides 40-42)
• Renumbering Activities (Slides 43-45)
• Building your Schedule – Making a List (Slides 46-47)
• Building your Schedule - Linking Shortcuts (Slide 48)
• The Schedule Report (Slides 49-52)
• Lag Calendars (Slides 53-54) 3
4. What we have for you today (cont.)...
• Fragnets (Slides 55-58)
• Coding and WBS Shortcuts (Slides 59-63)
• Finding and Filtering Activities (Slides 64-65)
• Roles and Resource Loading (Slides 66)
• Schedule Crashing Basics (Slides 67-68)
• Advanced Layouts For Communication (Slides 69-71)
• Advanced Gantt Chart Formatting (Slides 72-76)
• Exporting and Importing Layouts/Reports (Slide 77)
• Add Bar-charts & Graphics to Reports (Slides 78-83)
• Working with Baselines (Slides 84-91)
4
5. What’s New – Reflection Projects
• Power with Simplicity !!!
• A Reflection is a Copy of a Project that enhances Your Ability to
“What If” or Update Your Project
• Same Name – What If – Internal Link to Source – Baseline –
Timesheet Data – Activity Owner
• “Activity Owner” make changes via .xer or Web
• Review & Change or Merge As Is (Check Boxes)
• Merge Will Not remove Activities, Resource Assignments, WBS
Elements, Work Products & Docs, Expenses, Issues or Risks if
deleted from Reflection
DEMO
5
7. Making Changes to Reflection Projects
• Use to test Scenarios or Update Project
• Send w/Project Specific Layout to Others to Update
• Import/Export just like any other Project file
• Activity Owner – designate Owner w/Required Web
License & Privileges to Update/Change
• Admin or Project Superuser gets last shot to
Review/Correct before merging back into Source Project
• Merge Will Not remove Activities, Resource Assignments, WBS
Elements, Work Products & Docs, Expenses, Issues or Risks if
deleted from Reflection 7
8. Merging Reflection into Source Project
• Close all Projects
• Go to Projects Table – Select Reflection Project
• Right Click – Merge Reflection into Source Project
8
12. What’s New – Future Bucket Planning
• Redistribute Even Distribution of Budgeted Units
• Editable Security Privilege
• Duration Type Must be Fixed Duration & Units, or Fixed
Duration & Units/Time
• Use Resource Spreadsheet or Resource Assignment
• In Future Bucket Period type or change Values as
Needed
12
13. What’s New – Future Bucket Planning
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 TOTAL
Even Spread 8 8 8 8 8 40
Future Bucket 8A 8A 4A 10R 10R 40
•Assuming Daily TS – P5 spread evenly
•Actual levels of work may vary
•Example shows 20 A units in 3 days
•Remaining needs to be adjusted
•Two remaining buckets reflect adjustment
•Activity Adjusted must have Fixed Duration & Units, orFixed
Duration & Units/Time
•Use Resource Spreadsheet to adjust future bucket period 13
19. What’s New - Role Limits
• Similar to Limits for Resources
• Effective Date and Max Units/Time
19
20. What’s new – Project Specific Layouts (Yeah!)
• Layout with Filter when Project Exported
• Reduces Need for Global Layouts
• Only Global and Layout Filters will Restrict Use
• Expanded & Collapsed Bars & Row Height Setting when switching between layouts
and Windows (Yeah!)
20
22. Useful Global Changes –
De-Status the Schedule
Re-create a Baseline, Copy an Existing Schedule
that has Been Progressed
Project Detail Calculations Tab =
Any Actual Units that Exist Must be set to 0
• See Actual Units Slide
Run 2 Global Changes to Reset Activities to Not Started
• See De-Progress GCs
Make any Needed Changes and Reschedule
Skip
22
43. Renumbering Activities
Many GCs like Intelligent IDs
CSI Code – Bldg – Floor
Establish UDF (Activity) or Activity Code
Put in Column in Layout
Type Codes in Column
Use Global Change
Codes Become Activity IDs
43
45. Renumbering Activities (cont.)
For those a bit more familiar with (GC’s)
Create Activity Code
Add Activity Code column in Layout
Fill Column
Create GC’s that add suffix for Bldg & Floor
45
48. Building your schedule – Linking shortcuts
<Ctrl-Click> the
order to link the
activities, then
<right-click> your
mouse and choose
“Link Activities.”
They are now
linked in the order
you clicked on
them.
48
49. Building your schedule – The Schedule Report
When you schedule your project, don’t forget to choose “Log to file” and
click on the ellipsis to specify the location of the “schedule.txt” file.
Always view the log to spot errors.
49
54. Lag Calendars Reschedule
This has been
changed in v
6.0 to default to
the predecessor
+ =
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55. Fragnets
• Time Saving – why recreate the wheel?
– Building a Single Schedule
– Modifying Many Schedules
• Create New or Modify Existing
– New = As You Would New Project
– Modify = Delete from Existing
• WBS is the Key to Integration
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57. Fragnets (cont.)
Objective – Add 22 new Activities in Template
to 2 WBS Nodes
• Copy the Template as Fragnet, Delete All Activities
Except those to Remain in Planning & Design
WBS Nodes
• Add the 22 New Activities & All Links to Fragnet
• Open Template & Fragnet
• Delete All Activities in Planning & Design Template
WBS Nodes
• Select & Copy All Fragnet Activities
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58. Fragnets (cont.)
• Paste into one of the empty Template Nodes
(Preserves all Links)
• Control-Click all Activities to be moved to other Node
• <Ctrl-X> (Cut)
• <Ctrl-V> (Paste) into other Node
• Re-establish any Links from 2 Nodes to others
• Use Template to create new Schedules
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66. Roles and Resource Loading
• Roles are placeholders for Resources that are not yet
assigned.
• Roles allow teams to be assigned quickly to project
activities, once the resource team is identified.
• Only resources for roles that are unfilled are shown in
the assign resources for roles dialogue box.
• <Shift-Click> and <Ctrl-Click> can be used to select
the activities being assigned resources by roles.
• A project team could be assigned to all of the
project’s activities at once.
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78. BC1
Adding Barchart Graphics to Reports
1. Create a layout that you want to print in your report
2. From the tool menu or print preview, choose Publish
3. Choose the directory for the report
4. Open a notebook topic and insert the graphic
5. Include that notebook topic in your tabular report
6. Run the report
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79. Slide 78
BC1 Please doublecheck first bullet. Thanks, BC
Bill Camarda, 10/17/2006
80. Adding Barchart Graphics to Reports (cont.)
Publish to HTML
From the Tool menu or Print
Preview, choose Publish
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85. Working with Baselines
Baselines are an established method of tracking progress and measuring results
When you first begin using Baselines, you may see some strange results that are difficult to diagnose
Baselines can refer to either the Current Project or another Project
How can you know which, without opening?
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86. Working with Baselines (cont.)
Sort
Add a
Baseline
Column
? Why Alpha Prefix?
Sort by BL
Baseline Code
Project Name
Date
Resp
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87. Working with Baselines (cont.)
Is the Current
Schedule
Ahead or
Are we a year Behind the
ahead? Original Plan?
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