EPS, OBS, WBS means?

EPS (Enterprise Project Structures):- This is Hierarchal structure that identifies the company wide projects and enables organizing and management of those projects.

This is first step to distribution of work according to the Project.

OBS (Organisational Breakdown Structure):- It represents management responsible at the EPS/ Project. Each Manager in the OBS is associated with our area of the EPS.

WBS (Work Breakdown Structure):- Each Project in the EPS has its own WBS. A WBS is a hierachial arrangement of product and services produced during and by a project. Project in the highest level while an individualized activity is the lowest level.

Primavera Web Application

Primavera Web Application provides browser based access to project, portfolio and resources data across the organisation. Every web user can create customized dashboard 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 workgroup extend the model of customizable, focused data view by enabling designated project team member to create a uniform team view of data that related to one specific project or to a subset of activities within a project.

Time Sheet

Primavera provide a Web based inter project communication and timekeeping system.

Timesheets helps team member focus on the work at hand with a simple cross project to-do list of their upcoming assignments. It also provide views of project changes and timecard for manager approval. Because team member use this module to enter upto the minute information about their assignment and record time against their workloads, project leader can make crucial project decision with the confidence that they have the most current information possible.

Methodology Management

In this module system for authoring and storing methodologies or project plan template, in a central location. Project manager can select, combine, and tailor methodologies to create custom project plans. These customized methodologies can be imported into the project management module using the project Architect wizard and used as a templates for new projects.

In this way, organization can continually improve and refine methodology activities, estimates and other information with each new project.

Project Management

It is a multiuser, multi project system with scheduling and resource controlling capabilities supporting multi tiered hierarchies, resource scheduling with a focus on roles and skills, recording of a actual data, customizable view, and user definable data.

It is ideal for organization that need to simultaneously manage multiple project and support multiuser access across a department or the entire organisation. It supports an enterprise project structure (EPS) with a unlimited number of projects, activities, baseline, resources, work breakdown structure (WBS), Organisational breakdown structure (OBS), user defined codes, and Critical path method (CPM) scheduling and resource levelling.

In addition this module provide Integrated risk Management, issue tracking and Management by threshold. The report wizard create customized reports that extract specific data from its database.

Introduction To Primavera Enterprise Product

1) Project Management

2) Methodology management

3) Time Sheets

4) Primavera Web Application

Contain In Primavera P6

Following are the main heads in In Oracle Primavera Software.

1. Dashboard.

2. Portfolio.

3. Project.

4. Resource.

5. Administration.

Description of all these I will post very soon on this.