Primavera P6

By Biplab Mondal
Introduction to Primavera P6
 Primavera P6 enables your organization to store and
manage its projects in a central location. It provides

An enterprise project structure (EPS), which enables project managers to

manage multiple projects, from the highest levels of the organization to the
individuals that perform specific project tasks. Multiple users can access the
same projects concurrently.
Centralized resource management, including resource timesheet approval and
the ability to communicate with project resources who use Primavera Timesheets
Integrated risk management
Issue tracking
Management by threshold
A tracking feature that enables you to perform dynamic cross-project rollups of
cost, schedule, and earned value
Work products and documents that can be assigned to activities and managed
centrally
A Report wizard that helps you create customized reports to extract any data
from the Project Management database
How to Start
Start -> All Programs ->Primavera->Project Management

For our training

Session we will
use the password
as ‘admin’
Main Menu Navigation Bar
Tool Bar

Calendar

Primavera P6
 User Preference

Define user preferences

Main Menu : Edit->User Preference
FORMATTING THE DISPLAY
Formatting Columns
Formatting Activity Bars
Format Gridlines
Format Data Date(Activities and Tracking windows only)
Formatting Row Height
FORMATTING THE DISPLAY Contd…
Format Timescale
Organization Break down Structure
(OBS)
The organizational breakdown structure (OBS) is a global
hierarchy that represents the managers responsible for the
projects in your enterprise. The OBS usually reflects the
management structure of your organization, from top-level
personnel down through the various levels constituting your
business. You can associate the responsible managers with
their areas of the EPS —either nodes or individual projects.
When you associate a responsible manager with an EPS
node , any projects you add to that branch of the EPS are
assigned that manager element by default.
 Different Views of OBS
Choose Enterprise, OBS, then click the Display Options bar and choose Chart View.
To view the OBS table display again, click the Display Options bar, then choose Table View.

Table View Chart View

 Create New OBS

To Add A New Object

To Delete An Object

To Copy An Object

To Paste A Copied Object

To position an object in Structure

There are two parts of adding OBS : 1> Add Organization structure (Departments) 2> Add Employee
Structure.
Enterprise Project Structure
(EPS)
The Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) forms the hierarchical structure of your database of
projects. Each EPS node (or folder) can be subdivided into multiple levels to represent the
work that needs to be done in your organization. The number of levels and their structure
depend on the scope of your projects and how you want to summarize data.
 
You can use the EPS to
Perform top-down budgeting and resource and cost analysis
Organize work breakdown and organizational breakdown structures into one common
structure
Manage multiple projects from the highest levels of the organization to the individuals
that perform specific project tasks
Implement coding standards for flexible reporting
Maintain appropriate security throughout the enterprise
 Different views of EPS
Choose Enterprise, Enterprise project structure, then click the Display Options bar and choose Chart View.
To view the Enterprise project structure table display again, click the Display Options bar, then choose Table View.

Table View Chart View

 Create New EPS

To Add A New Object

To Delete An Object

To Copy An Object

To Paste A Copied Object

To position an object in Structure

Assigning Responsible Manager