PROJECT MANAGEMENT

TOOLS

Prepared by
Drishya D Nambiar
Civil Trainer
 Primavera
P6
• Oracle Primavera P6 is a project, program and portfolio
management tool that's used for planning, managing and
executing your project work. It's designed to handle large and
small projects in many diverse industries, such as
construction, manufacturing, energy, and IT.
Steps Involved in Operation of Primavera P6
1. Creating an ideal schedule. ...
2. Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) ...
3. Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) ...
4. Assigning Calendar. ...
5. Create a New Project. ...
6. Work breakdown structure (WBS) ...
7. Define Activities under WBS. ...
8. Determination of Activity Duration.
9. Activity Dates
10. Activity Relationship
11. Run Schedule
12. Resource and Role Allocation
13. Activity Cost
14. Baseline Creation
15. Updating the schedule
16. Tracking
17. Earned Value
18. Project issues
19. Report Generation
 MS
PROJECT
• MS Project, the project management software program by
Microsoft, is a very handy tool for project managers that
helps them develop a schedule, assign resources to tasks,
track the progress, manage the budget, and analyze
workloads for an ongoing project.
 Steps Involved
• Define the Project
• Build the Plan
• Set a start date
• Enter tasks/durations
• Assign resources
• Link tasks
• Fine tune the plan
• Track and Manage
• Set a baseline
• Enter actuals
• Adjust plan
• Close Project