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Primavera Project Management 6


Product Demo/ Hands-on

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Develop the schedule and apply the resources and cost for the Plant Erection project by
creating the Organisation Breakdown Structure and Enterprise Project Structure for the XYZ
Company.

The Organisation Breakdown Structure is as Shown below.

President
Prince

Vice President – Vice President –


Special Projects Major Projects
Zakir Siddiqqui

Director – Plant Director – Civil Director – Piping Director – Explora-


Works Works Works tion
Aslam Mohammed Siddharth Talaue

Program Manager – Program Manager – Program Manager - Program Manager –


Internal Bridges CCP Oil Exploration
Roshan Raja Felix Ahmed

Project Manager – Project Manager – Project Manager – Project Manager –


Plant 1 Bridge 1 North Central
Dilna Muthu Regin Azhar

Project Manager – Project Manager – Project Manager – Project Manager –


Plant 2 Bridge 2 South East & West
Francis Joe Ramu Reji

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The Project Structure is as shown below.

XYZ

Special Projects Major Projects

Plant Works Civil Works Piping Works Exploration

Internal Bridges Cross Country Oil Exploration


Works Pipeline

Plant 1 Project Bridge 1 Project North side Gas Exploration


Projects

Plant 2 Project Bridge 2 Project South Side


Projects

Assign the OBS to the EPS elements and projects. For this Plant erection project create a six
day work week calendar with 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and assign it as project calendar. Also create
a five day work week calendar with timing as 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and assign this calendar for
two tasks. The start date of the project is May 2, 2009.

The activities are shown with WBS for two levels and the resources are given below. Analyse
the resources by using profile and table. The table given below shows the list of activities.

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ID Name Duration Predecessors


SS Project

1 Start of project 0 -

101 Tendering

2 Preparation of Tender 20 1

3 Evaluation of Technical Bid 15 2

4 Evaluation of Commercial Bid 7 3

5 Award of Contract 7 4

102 Procurement

6 Ordering of Equipment 4 5

7 Site Handing Over 7 5

8 Delivery of Equipment 60 6

103 Erection Works

9 Erection of Civil Structures 20 7,8

10 Erection of Mechanical Equipment 35 7,8

11 Erection of Electrical Equipment 25 7,8

104 Testing & Closing

12 Testing of Plant 7 9,10,11

13 On load Testing 7 12

14 Commissioning 1 13

15 Finish of project 0 14

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Resource Definition

The table given below shows the list of resources that are available for the whole project.

Name Max. Avail. Price/ Unit


Materials Manager 1 550/day

Engineer 3 500/day

Quality Controller 2 550/day

Supervisor 4 400/day

Office Assistant 1 200/day

Electrician 1 250/day

Labour 20 100/day

Crane 1 450/day

Excavator 1 400/day

Assigning Resources
The table given below shows the list of resources that are needed for each and every activity.
Analyse the resources by using resource profile.

Name Resource Names No. of units


Preparation of Tender Engineer 1
Office Assistant 1

Evaluation of Tech. Bid Engineer 1

Evaluation of Comm. Bid Engineer 1

Award of Contract Engineer 1


Office Assistant 1

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Name Resource Names No. of units


Ordering of Equipment Materials Manager 1
Office Assistant 1

Site Handing Over Engineer 1


Office Assistant 1

Delivery of Equipment Materials Manager 1


Engineer 1
Labour 10

Erection of Civil Structures Engineer 1


Supervisor 2
Labour 15
Excavator 1
Materials Manager 1

Erection of Mechanical Equipment Engineer 1


Supervisor 2
Labour 15
Crane 1

Erection of Electrical Equipment Engineer 1


Supervisor 2
Electrician 1
Labour 10
Crane 1

Testing of Plant Quality Controller 2


Supervisor 1
Labour 5

On load Testing Quality Controller 1


Supervisor 1
Labour 5

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Name Resource Names No. of units


Commissioning Engineer 1
Office Assistant 5
Labour 5

Report

1) Prepare the schedule and find the critical path and finish date of the project.
2) Assign the resources and find the total cost of the project.
3) Track the project after 15 days with some delay in the activities.
4) Prepare the following report
a. Resource Control – Detail by Activity
b. Monthly Project Cask Flow
c. Resource Units Loading – Daily organised by WBS

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To define Organizational Breakdown Structure


1) Select ENTERPRISE  OBS

2) Select the level below which you want to add the level and select ADD.

3) If the newly created level wants to be inside the selected level, use SHIFT RIGHT.
To define Enterprise Project Structure

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1) Select ENTERPRISE Enterprise Project Structure

2) Select the level below which you want to add the level and select ADD.

3) If the newly created level wants to be inside the selected level, use the SHIFT RIGHT.
To create new project
1) Select ENTERPRISE  Projects

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2) Select the EPS node in which project has to be created. Then ADD.
3) Enter the details about the project in activity details. View  Show on Bottom
Project Details.

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To create new calendar.


1) Select ENTERPRISE  Calendars

2) Select Project and ADD.

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3) Select the calendar which you want to copy. Click .

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4) Select

5) To define each days working time, click

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To assign a calendar as Project Calendar


1) Select ENTERPRISE  Projects
2) View  Show on Bottom  Project Details
3) Select Defaults

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4) Select calendar and click

To assign a calendar as Task Calendar


1) Open the project. File Open
2) View  Show on Bottom Activity Details
3) Select General

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Adding Activities
1) Open project

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2) Click to add activities.

Activity Sequencing
1) Open the project
2) View Show on Bottom  Activity Details
3) Select Relationships

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Use either Predecessor or Successor to link the activities and give relationship type and lag.

WBS
To define the WBS for the project
1) Project  WBS

2) Click .
3) To add one level below the selected level.

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To assign WBS level for the project


4) Use Activity Details  General

5) Click

6) Select WBS level and click .

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Resources
To define the resources
1) Enterprise  Resources

1) Click General to give resource ID, name etc.


2) Click Details to mention whether it is labour, non labour or material. Currency and
overtime factor can also be mention here.
3) In the Units & Prices we can give the availability of resources and the price.

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To assign resources
1) Project Activities
2) View  Show on bottom  Activity Details
3) Select Resources

4) Click to assign resource directly.

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5) Select the resource and click

Resource Analysis
View  Show on bottom  Resource Usage Profile

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Red colour indicates the over allocation of resources.

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Update Progress
1) Save the baseline. Project  Maintain Baselines

Click to create new baseline.

To assign the baseline Project Assign Baselines

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1) Select each and every activity and for each activity, you need to specify the Actual
Start, Actual Finish and the percent complete and the remaining duration for the
activities in status tab

2) Then, you need to schedule the project by specifying the data date that is the status
date what you are going to set.

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3) For comparing the actual progress and the baseline schedule go to View  Bars and
display the baseline bar.

Earned Value Analysis


For doing the earned value analysis, follow all the steps mentioned in the previous topic. Go to
Activity details  Expenses. Give the extra amount which you spend in the Actual cost and
find the EVA. To get the EVA, Planned Value, Earned Value and Actual Cost, go to
Tools Reports  Earned Value.

Report Generation
For taking tabular reports, Tools Reports Reports

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