EPS in Primavera

for me, EPS is the grandmother of WBS

Abid

According to Wideman Glossary

"Enterprise Project Structure ("EPS")
The orderly arrangement of projects in an organization’s portfolio designed to support the goals and objectives of the enterprise.

Raf

EPS and OBS are features developed to provide access rights to users on the projects in the organizations.

As we open Primavera the EPS window is akin to windows explorer (wherein we search files we require). Here in Primavera, EPS window populates the projects in a organized manner with right of each users on each of these projects.

Abid
Access rights are inherited by lower level nodes,
The budgets are established along the EPS
Reports can be grouped by EPS/WBS
So in general it will reflect the structure of the company.
Dieter

Dieter,
what about calculating project portfolio resource and cost constrained schedule applying project priorities? I did not check how Primavera does it, but the natural way to apply project priorities for this calculation is in EPS . Did you try it?
Regards,
Vladimir

Vladimir
I never tried this. But as you as the owner and creator of spider software adress this item, it isn’t possible I assume. Portfolio resource isn’t an item for us, dependencies between projects we do by relationships and by a little more manual work than you explained for Spider.
Vladimir it is absolutely not fair to adress me for a special case where your software may have an advantage against Primavera. As you know, I’m a user and work for a company where Primavera is set as a software for planning and scheduling since about 15 years. So we are aware of strengths and weaknesses, co-operate with partners who know P6 and developed work-arounds for missing items. If we need a contractor, many are available for Primavera, not for Spider. So, for us P6 is the best solution. I work with Primavera for about 15 years as well and I’m sure that I know Primavera very well, but am not an expert for each function.
You should discuss with representatives or the founders of Primavera - i.e. your level, not with a user.
Regards
Dieter

Dieter, I am sorry. I did not imagine that my post can be interpreted this way. I did not mention Spider Project and did not plan to do it in this thread.

I really don’t know if Primavera does what I expected or not. This is why I asked you. It is just natural to assign project priorities in EPS, that’s all.

I was prepared to any answer like yes, no, or don’t know either. I did not expect the discussion on Spider Project.

Best Regards,
Vladimir

Vladimir
From previous threads I learnt that you know Primavera very well. Together with your expert knowledge in PM I assumed your question to be rhetorical. If this wasn’t the your intention, I apologize.
There are some parallel structures for projects to the EPS: the codes and the Portfolios. For those you can easily check resource assignments.
Regards
Dieter

Thank you, Dieter.
Actually I have not much experience with Primavera portfolio management. I don’t want to ask questions that may be interpreted the wrong way, so I will try it myself.
Best Regards,
Vladimir