Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

Chapter 4. Creating a New Project and Work Breakdown Structure

Now that we have discussed the organization of a project, we will walk through the process of setting up a new project in P6. By the end of this chapter, the reader should feel comfortable with:

• Creating a new project using the New Project Wizard
• Setting project properties
• Structuring the WBS of the project
• Importing projects into P6

You may also create a project using project templates. This is discussed in Chapter 10, Project Templates.

Creating a new project using the New Project Wizard

Let us suppose that you have gone through the exercises in the last chapter and created an EPS and OBS structure, which reflects how your company organizes and manages a project. Now that we have a place ...