Primavera Advanced Presentation
Primavera Advanced Presentation
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• EXPORT WIZARD
- enables to choose the format and data you want to export. You can export
information, such as activities, resource data, projects, and expenses.
• IMPORT WIZARD
- guides you through the steps for importing projects. The project you
want to import data into must be open.
❑ Import Action — To prevent data from being overwritten, select one of the following
options:
• Update Existing Project - the existing project in the database will be updated by the
project being imported. This option is available only when the project is
open.
• Create New Project - creates a new project from the project being imported.
• Replace Existing Project - the existing project is deleted and replaced by the project
being imported. This option is available only when the project is open.
• Ignore this Project - the project is not imported.
• Add into Existing Project - this option is available only when the project is open.
TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN EXCEL & PRIMAVERA
When you export data to an XLS file, each subject area is exported to a
separate worksheet within the XLS file. Each subject area has the following sheet
name:
❑ Activities — TASK
❑ Activity Relationships — TASKPRED
❑ Expenses — PROJCOST
❑ Resources — RSRC
❑ Resource Assignments — TASKRSRC
The first two rows in each worksheet consist of the following data:
❑ First row — Column headers identify the database field name that was
exported. To import data successfully, do not change the values in
these cells.
❑ Second row — Primavera field names that correspond to each database
field name. These cells are editable.
PORTFOLIO
• Project Codes
- Classify and categorize projects according to your organizational needs.
• Resource Codes
- Classify and categorize resource according to your organizational needs.
• Data Types – kinds of data that can be entered in the user-defined fields.
- Start Date – Dates and times.
- End Date – Dates and times.
- Integer – Numeric (except currency); no decimals
- Number – Numeric; with decimals
- Text – Text or combinations of text and numbers
- Cost – Currency Values
- Indicator – Color – coded Icons
GLOBAL CHANGE
- Powerful feature that can change data for a project in a single process.
- Replace existing data with new data, populating user-defined fields.
The user controls the calculation of Activity Percent Complete by assigning one of the
three percent complete types to the activity: Duration Percent Complete, Units Percent
Complete, or Physical Percent Complete.
❑ Duration % Complete
• Use if you record progress based on the number of work days remaining
• Activity is duration driven.
• Calculated as: [(Original Duration - Remaining Dur)/Original Dur] * 100
❑ Units % Complete
• Use if you record progress based on actual work effort accomplished and
remaining work effort needed to complete
• Activity is work-effort driven.
• Calculated as: (Actual Units/At Completion Units) * 100
❑ Physical % Complete
• Use if you record progress based on personal judgment.
• Activity is work-product driven.
• Manually entered, no calculation.
EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT
- Is a methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements
to access project performance and progress.
- Commonly used method of performance measurements for projects.
EARNED VALUE ANALYSIS
• PLANNED VALUE (PV) PV = BAC x SCHEDULE % COMPLETE
SV = EV – PV
• COST VARIANCE (CV)
CV = EV – AC
SPI = EV / PV
• COST PERFORMANCE INDEX
CPI = EV / AC
FORECASTING / LOOKING AHEAD