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  LARGE PROJECTS OR PROGRAMS HANDLING IN P6

Gordon Aronson

Aronson examines the Enterprise Project Structure, stresses patience.

 
  SOME GOOD AND SOME BAD

Gordon AronsonAronson examines Contract Management and says the rumor that it has seen its last upgrade is not true. In fact, programming is under way.

  
  PRIMAVERA'S CONTRACT MANAGER: A BETTER WAY TO MAINTAIN PROJECT LOGS
Most (but not all) project managers have abandoned the "log book in the back pocket" method of detailing the progress of a project. Today's technologies provide far better tools than the scuffed up notebooks of yesteryear. Doug Findley enumerates how Primavera's P6 and Contract Manager work together to provide supportive and expedited logs and lists that attach to the project schedule.
  PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE: PRIMAVERA'S BUSINESS MODEL?

Doug Findley takes a look at the database schema in Primavera's P6 updates. In updates past, existing database programming was compatible with the updated interface and other add-on tools. Those days are gone, Findley says, causing him to ask if this non-compatibility is intentional.
  ORACLE|PRIMAVERA: MISSING IN ACTION
Gordon AronsonWhere is Primavera? That's what Gordon Aronson would like to know. "We all like to speculate on where the software is really headed and if much needed features and fixes will ever show up, but this game of playing prophet is getting old," he says.
  FINDING THE RISK: A PRIMER ON THE RISK PROVISIONING PROCESS
How do you identify risk? And once identified, how do you evaluate and mitigate it? Doug Findley has the answers in this primer on the risk provisioning process.
  BUSINESS AS USUAL: A PRIMAVERA RANT
Doug Findley wants more open disclosures about Primavera's P6 capabilities and glitches. After all, that's what the annual support fee should cover, he argues. Findley shares with readers his recent exchange of e-mails and phone calls with Primavera's vice president of customer support.
 
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