Introduction
Primavera P6 EPPM Navigation
Creating a Schedule in P6 EPPM
Resource Management in P6 EPPM
Improving the Schedule
Recording Progress in P6 EPPM

The Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

What is an EPS? EPS stands for Enterprise Project Structure. It's a tool to help you organize your projects. To use EPPM, understanding the EPS is fundamental.

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In this lesson, we're going to have a look at the Enterprise Project Structure and talk about the fundamentals of what that does. So the Enterprise Project Structure is the fundamental building block of P6. It's what holds the projects. It was what enables security to those projects. And in this particular database that I've got on screen, I can see that there are two top-level groupings for my projects. I have my all initiatives folder, and my plan Academy folder. So in my plan Academy folder, we'll have my different exercises in. The enterprise folder holds a lot more. So I can see there are sub notes indicated by fact that it's both indented and as a different color.

So I've got a clients folder, corporate programs, demo projects, engineering and construction, and down there we'll go into the information technology projects. If I just scroll down a little bit further here, I can see that there's two lines of business for energy... Sorry, two lines of business for IT. If I open up Line of Business 2, I've got some projects within that and you may recognize some of this demonstration data. So just to talk about it a little bit more, if I was working within one of the lines of business within IT, I would have all my folders so like all my projects stored within one folder.

So the Enterprise Project Structure works much like your folders in Windows Explo...

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