Summary

In this chapter, we have given a grand overview of P6, from how to log into the system, to all of the main menu items, and to customizing screens. Although there is much more depth in following chapters, we hope that the reader will now have a feel for what capabilities are present in the product and where to find things.

At this point the experienced P6 user who is mainly interested in how things have changed in version 8 may wish to skip ahead to specific topics of interest. Novice users will wish to continue to the next chapter, where we begin to lay out the foundations for managing projects in P6.

In Chapter 3, Organizing your Projects with EPS, OBS, and WBS, we discuss three key structures for organizing information across and within projects: Enterprise Project Structure, Organizational Breakdown Structure, and Work Breakdown Structure.