Project Management Software

INTRODUCTION

—Primavera 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.

—It supports an unlimited number of projects, project groups or programs, activities, baselines, resources, and user-defined WBS and activity codes

 

—It has capability to handle large-scale, highly sophisticated and multifaceted projects, to organize projects up to 100,000 activities, providing unlimited resources and an unlimited number of target plans.

—Primavera gives a multitude of ways to organize, filter and sort activities, projects, and resources. It has a rich graphical interface to plan and manage and report on projects. It provides colored bands to organize data by project code, activity code, resource, cost accounts, WBS. It also offers powerful scheduling and resource leveling options, including backward resource leveling, smoothing and the ability to level selected portions of a project.

IN TERMS OF TRAINING

—Primavera is a successful course to organize projects, their resources involving human as well as non-labor, their timetables, their whole business procedures, the budget involved and change. Here are a few ways by which huge business entities are benefited with perfect Primavera courses, like:

—Find out early care of the perils involved in execution of project

—Get better visibility in performance of the project

—Expect the project rank- healthy or poor, at the end

— Working in a group as a team for the entire assignment

END USER BENEFIT

—The combination is expected to provide customers with the following benefits:

—Access to a best-in-class

—Industry specific functionality for project-intensive industries such as architecture, engineering, and construction; public sector; aerospace and defense; utilities; oil and gas, manufacturing and high tech; and IT and services

—Better use of resources, reduced costs, and projects delivered on-time and within budget

—Better decision-making capabilities with improved transparency into project portfolios enterprise-wide

—Visibility into progress and performance, impact of changes on profitability, and enhanced what-if analysis capabilities for analyzing alternatives

—Added domain expertise and services through Primavera PARs and partners

IMPACT OF PRIMAVERA to PARTIES INVOLVED

—Architecture, Engineering, and Construction customers are expected to maximize the value of their resources, accelerate project delivery, effectively manage project and business risks and contracts to enforce clear accountability across organizational lines, and better deliver on their obligations through visibility into all aspects of project performance past, present, and future.

—Public Sector customers are expected to increase efficiency and improve stakeholder visibility and transparency through the monitoring of IT and other programs, and ensure compliance with an industry-leading Earned Value capability.

—Services customers are expected to build the right project portfolios, improve engagement cash flow and profitability, better manage internal assets and resources, and standardize and improve project delivery.

—Utilities customers are expected to benefit from increased business insight and operational agility as they manage intensive outage and shutdown projects, coordinate subcontractors and major procurement items, and share critical resources between both major projects and routine maintenance.

—Manufacturing customers are expected to evaluate product and project portfolios to improve competitive position in the market, and have visibility into the key skills and resources that will be required to carry out their commitments to stakeholders and customers.

Primavera Training

Primavera provides executives with a real-time view of their organization's 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.

Features:

•        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.

The effective and easy solution to globally prioritize, plan, manage and execute assignments, portfolios and programs is through Primavera training. In today's extremely competitive scenario, great business establishments and companies have just realized that the businesses are taken ahead by assignments only. Thus, for this reason, huge organizations have been quite taxing on every project they initiate. Thus, Primavera is a successful course to organize projects, their resources involving human as well as non-labor, their timetables, their whole business procedures, the budget involved and change. Here are a few ways by which huge business entities are benefited with perfect Primavera courses, like:

• ·         Find out early care of the perils involved in execution of project
• ·         Get better visibility in performance of the project
• ·         Expect the project rank- healthy or poor, at the end
• ·          Working in a group as a team for the entire assignment

An efficient Primavera training process gives all the staff higher contact on Primavera software. The main advantage of this training is that the staffs get practical training of the software. Primavera training provided by certified training institutes and coaching by extremely professional, so that all my staffs can confidently handle any large enterprise project easily. Due to the advanced expertise, it’s become quite necessary that our managers get a perfect coaching and understand the importance of operating Primavera P6 project management software for their projects. Every Single teacher that appointed has real experience executing capital projects using Primavera tools. During Primavera course, examples are adapted to attend real life experience highly experienced coaches.

This is the entire list of training programs appointed by our firms: 

* Primavera Training-P6

Primavera P6 Training - Primavera Web-Based Project Management (3 Days

Primavera P6 Training - Planner/Scheduler Basic Course (3 Days)

Primavera P6 Training - Planner/Scheduler Advanced - Administration (1 Day) 

Primavera P6 Training - Planner/Scheduler Advanced - Projects (2 Days) 

Primavera P6 Training - Planner/Scheduler Advanced - Resources (2 Days) 

Primavera P6 Training - Primavera Web-Based Resource Management (1 1/2 Days) 

Primavera P6 Training - Migration from P3 to P6 (2 Days) 

Primavera P6 Training - Executive Portfolio Analysis (1 Day)

* Primavera Training - Contract Manager (formerly Expedition)

 Primavera Training - Contract Manager - v.12 (3 Days) 

 Primavera Training - Contract Manager - v.9-11 (3 Days)

Primavera Training - Contract Administration with Expedition - v.8.5 (2 Days)

Primavera Training - Contract Management with Expedition - v.8.5 (2 Days)

Primavera Training - InfoMaker for Expedition - Report Writing (2 Days)

  

*         Primavera Training - Suretrak

Primavera Training - Introduction to SureTrak Project Manager - v.3.0 (2 Days)

*  Primavera Training - Contractor

Primavera Training - Introduction to Contractor - v.6.0 (2 Days) 

 

Primavera Products

Primavera offers the following software components:

1.       Project Management

The Project Management module enables users to track and analyze performance. It is a multiuser, multi project system with scheduling and resource control capabilities supporting multi-tiered project hierarchies, resource scheduling with a focus on roles and skills, recording of actual data, customizable views and user definable data.

The module is ideal for my organization that needs to simultaneously manage multiple projects and support multiuser access across a department or the entire organization. It support an enterprise project structure (EPS) with an unlimited number projects, activities, baselines, resources, work breakdown structures (WBS), Organizational breakdown structures (OBS), user-defined codes, and critical path method (CPM) scheduling and resource leveling. Large scale implementations for organization-wide project portfolio management use it with Oracle or SQL Server as the project database. 

The module also provides centralized resource management which is includes resource timesheet approval and the ability to communicate with project resources who use the Timesheets module. In addition the module provides integrated risk management, issue tracking and management by threshold. The tracking features enable users to perform dynamic cross-project rollups of cost, schedule and earned value. Project work products and documents can be assigned to activities and managed centrally. The Report Wizard creates customized reports that extract specific data from its database.

2.       Methodology Management

The Methodology Management module is a system for authoring and storing methodologies, or project plan templates in a central location. Project managers can select, combine and tailor methodologies can be imported into the Project Management module using the Project Architect wizard and used as templates for new projects. In this way, my organization can continually improve and refine methodology activities, estimates and other information with each new project.

3.       Timesheets

Primavera also provides a Web-based inter project communication and timekeeping system. As a team level tool for project participants, Timesheets helps team members focus on the work at hand with a simple cross project to do list of their upcoming assignments. It also provides views of project changes and timecards for manager approval. Because team members use this module to enter up to the minute Information about their assignments and record time against their workloads, project leaders can make crucial project decisions with the confidence that they have the most current information possible.

4.       Primavera’s Web Application

The Primavera Web application provides browser based access to project, portfolio and resource data across the organization. Every web user can create customized dashboards that provide an individualized and focused view of the specific projects and categories of project data that are most relevant to their role in managing project portfolios, projects and resources. Project Workspaces and Workgroups extent the model of customizable, focused data views by enabling designated project team members to create a uniform team view of data that related to one specific project or to a subset of activities within a project. The Primavera Web application provides access to a wide range of data views and features that enable Web users to manage their projects from initial concept review and approval through to completion.

5.       Primavera Integration API

The Primavera Integration API is a Java based API and server that enables developers to create client codes that can seamlessly access Primavera’s project management functionality.

6.       Software Development Kit

The Primavera Software Development Kit (SDK) enables users to integrate the data in the Project Management module database with external databases and applications.   It provides access to the schema and stored procedures that encapsulate business logic. The SDK supports the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and standard and ODBC-compliant interfaces, such as OLE-DB and JDBC, for connecting to the project management database. The SDK must be installed on any computer that needs to integrate with the database.

7.       Claim Digger

Claim Digger provides the capability to compare two projects, or a project and an associated baseline, to determine what data has been added, deleted or modified from the schedules. Base on the data fields you select for comparison, this feature creates a project plan comparison report in one of three file formats. Claim Digger is automatically installed with the Project Management module. You can access it from the Tools menu.

8.       ProjectLink

ProjectLink is a plug in that enables Microsoft Project (MSP) users to work in the MSP environment while being connected to Primavera’s enterprise features. The functionality enables MP users to open/save projects from/to the Project Management module database from within the MSP application. Moreover MSP users have the ability to invoke Primavera’s resource management within the MSP environment. ProjectLink benefits organizations that have the additional functionality and optimized data organization available within Primavera applications.

Role Primavera in the Organization

      The following section describesthe roles as they typically apply to the Primavera applications.

       1.       Network administrators

Network administrators configure an organization’s network environment (local and wide area networks for optimal performance with Primavera applications. They install and maintain the server and client components of the applications. In addition, they manage user access to data and develop and maintain comprehensive security policy to ensure that Primavera Project Management data are protected from unauthorized access, theft or damage.

Network administrators ensure that the hardware and software supporting Primavera applications function reliably by;-

§      Setting up and maintaining the network to ensure reliable connections and the fastest possible data transfer.

§        Creating and maintaining accurate lists of network resources and users so that each ha a unique network identity

       2.       Database administrators

     Database administrators (DBAs) are responsible for setting up, managing and assigning access rights for the Primavera databases, maintain data integrity, and set interoperability standards.

       Database administrators ensure reliable access to the Primavera database by ;

•      Installing, configuring and upgrading database server software and related products as required
•    Creating and implementing the database
•                Implementing and maintaining database security, including creating and maintaining users, roles and privileges for the database

•                Monitoring database performance and tuning as needed
•   Planning for growth and changes and establishing and maintaining backup and recovery policies and procedures
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3.       Operations executives

Operations executives are responsible for strategic planning and ongoing performance analysis. They use the Project Management module and Primavera’s Web Portfolio Management application to analyze schedule, resource and cost data across projects.

        Senior executives may be responsible for ;-

• §              Priotizing projects
• §          The profit/loss for a specific business entity;_
•                Funding and go/no-go decisions about projects
•         Strategic planning over the future of the business or division
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 4.       Project controls coordinators 

Project controls coordinators are responsible for ensuring that Primavera applications are implemented properly and operate smoothly. They play a key role during implementation by ;-

§                  Working with operations executives and program/project managers to set up methodologies in the Methodologies in the Methodology Management Module

§        Working with operations executives and program/project managers to structure project, organizational breakdown structure (OBS) and resource hierarchies, set up basic calendars and define organization-wide custom fields and codes in the Project Management module

§  Assigning security rights to users in the Project Management module

5.       Program managers

Program managers oversee several high-level project managers; they are responsible for multiple projects and use the Project Management and Methodology Management modules, along with Primavera’s Web application to;

•               Perform cross-project analysis
•               Manage projects to on-time and on budget completion
•    Prioritize resources across projects
•               Plan projects before they are funded

6.       Project managers

Project managers manage multiple small, repetitive projects or a single, complex project. They are responsible for on-time/on-budget completion of the projects and use the Project Management module and Primavera Web application to;-

§  Allocate specific named resource to aproject in conjunction with the functional manager of those resources

§  Communicate project information both up and down the chain of command

§  Manage resources related to the project

7.       Resource / cost managers

        Resource managers allocate resources across projects and distribute their workloads. They are responsible for resource planning, including recruiting, hiring and training resources and they are may be responsible for loading resource information within the company.

       8.       Team leaders

        Team leaders manage the work for a portion of a larger project. They are managers who produce work and manage a team and they often use the Project Management and Timesheets modules and the Primavera Web application, to prioritize short term tasks or objectives, team members typically when the duration is less than the planning period of the project.

      9.       Team members

        Team members are trained in a specific skill required on a project. They work with their manager to develop activities and durations for incorporation into the schedule. Once activities are added to the schedule, team members update them using the Timesheets module to indicate the work they performed during designated accounting periods. Team members may also use personalized dashboards in the Primavera Web application quickly access their projects, activities, documents and events.