11i Project Management Fundamentals

In this course, students will learn about the implementation of 11i Oracle Project Management. The course encompasses key setup considerations, from implementing issue and change management to defining budgets and forecasts, managing progress, and explains some of the impacts of implementation decisions. Students will learn through the use of tutorials, supplemented with guided demonstrations and hands on practices.

Oracle Project Management provides project managers the visibility and control they need to deliver their projects successfully, improve profitability, and operate more efficiently. Project managers can look to a single source of enterprise project information to manage the project through its lifecycle-from planning, through execution, to completion. Oracle Project Management is part of the Oracle Enterprise Project Management solution. Oracle Enterprise Project Management provides a set of applications that help companies deliver global projects by integrating and managing project information. It enables all persons at all levels of the enterprise to participate and collaborate on the projects at appropriate levels in a centralized environment.

Audience

• Functional Implementer
• Project Manager
• Sales Consultants

Course Topics Overview of Oracle Project Management Oracle Project Collaboration Integration Managing Workplans

• Overview of Workplans
• Creating Workplans
• Workplan Management
• Approving and Publishing Workplans

Implementing Workplan Management Managing Deliverables

• Creating and Managing Project Deliverables
• Integration with other Oracle products
• Setting Up Project Deliverables

Managing Progress

• Overview of Progress Management
• Approaches to Collecting Progress

Managing Programs

• Overview of Program Management
• Enabling and Using Program Management
• Viewing Program Information

Managing Budgets and Forecasts

• Overview of Budgeting and Forecasting
• Budget and Forecast Process Flows
• Plan Types and Plan Versions
• Generating Budgets and Forecasts
• Submitting Budgets and Forecasts

Implementing Budgeting and Forecasting

• Budgeting and Forecasting Implementation Steps
• Extensions

Managing Issues

• Overview of the Issue Management Process
• Creating, Managing, Resolving, and Closing Issues

Managing Change Documents

• Overview of the Change Management Process
• Creating, Managing, and Resolving Change Documents

Implementing Issue and Change Management

• Issue and Change Management Setup
• Extensions

Defining Project Status Reports

• Overview of Project Status Reporting
• Project Status Reporting Options for a Project
• Creating, Updating, and Publishing Progress Status Reports

Implementing Project Status Reporting Document Management Project Performance Reporting and Exceptions Reporting

• Overview of Project Performance Reporting
• Viewing Detailed Amounts and Actuals
• Analyzing Project Performance Reporting
• Overview of Performance Exceptions Reporting
• Managing Exceptions

Implementing Project Performance Reporting and Exceptions Reporting

• Project Performance Reporting Setup Steps
• Exceptions Reporting Setup Steps

Reporting with Project Status Inquiry

• Overview of Project Status Inquiry (PSI)
• Project Summary Amounts

Implementing Project Status Inquiry

• Defining Non-Default Columns
• Extensions

Earned Value Management

• Overview of Earned Value Management
• Using Earned Value Measures

Microsoft Project Integration

• Overview of Microsoft Project Integration
• Functions Performed in Microsoft Project
• Functions Performed in Oracle Projects
• Install Microsoft Project Integration
• Sending Data to Oracle Projects
• Receiving Information from Oracle Projects

Summary of 11i Project Management Fundamentals
Course Objectives

• Set up 11i Oracle Project Management
• Identify the features of Oracle Project Management
• Describe the relationship between Oracle Project Management and Oracle Project Collaboration
• Understand the impacts of key implementation decisions