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  • 1 Project Definition
    • Overview of Project Execution Management
    • Import Project Plan Process
    • How Microsoft Project Works with Project Management
    • Microsoft Project Prevalidation Messages
  • 2 Manage Project Requirements
    • Project Requirements
    • FAQs for Project Requirements
      • How can I change the status of a backlog item with the Requirement Storyboard?
      • How can I create requirements at any level from a project plan?
      • How can I update multiple requirements at the same time?
  • 3 Project Plan Tasks and Schedule
    • Different Ways of Managing Project Lifecycle
    • Project Calendar
      • Project Calendar
      • What's the difference between project calendars and resource calendars?
      • How can I change the project calendar after a project is created?
      • What happens if project team members don't have allocation dates?
      • Can I create, edit, or delete events for team members on my project calendar?
      • Why can't I view all the event types on a project calendar?
      • What are unscheduled events?
    • Project Resources
      • Project Resources
      • How do I manage planned resources?
      • What's a planned resource assignment status?
    • Project Plan and Schedule
      • Project Statuses
      • Fixed Duration Projects
      • Fixed Effort Projects
      • Project Scheduling
      • Automatically Sync Dates Between Financial Project Plans and Work Plans
      • Project Plan Baselines
      • Project Proposal
      • Work Items
      • Example of Creating a Project to Manage Negotiation
      • Example of Creating a Project to Manage Product Development
      • How You Manage Project Gates
      • Project Gate Notifications
      • Project Gates Opening Automatically Upon Approval
      • Work Plan Templates
    • Project Plan and Schedule FAQs
      • What's the difference between fixed duration and fixed effort projects?
      • How are task numbers assigned?
      • How can I print or export the project plan?
      • How can I view the list of recently accessed projects?
      • How can I set up a Project Management home page of my preference?
      • Do the Dates Automatically Sync for a New Task?
      • Why didn't task dates change when predecessor task dates changed?
      • Which Dates Get Automatically Synchronized Between the Work Plan and Financial Plan?
      • What Happens When the Planned Task Dates of Either of the Plans are updated Using FBDI or the REST API?
      • Can a task have multiple predecessor and successor tasks?
      • What's critical path?
      • What's progress line?
      • Can I change the project currency for a project?
      • Can I update the schedule mode of the Automatic tasks in the Project Plan?
      • Why is the default allocation percentage of a resource assigned to a task less than 100 percent?
      • Why did the task dates change after I assigned a resource to the task?
      • Can I change the project schedule (calendar) for existing projects?
    • Project Plan Access FAQs
      • How can team members view a project plan?
      • How can I share a project plan with users who aren't assigned to the project?
      • Who can access view-only project plans?
      • Why can't I access a financial project in the Project Management work area?
      • Why can't I view project management or resource management pages?
    • Project Deliverables
      • Project Deliverables
      • Deliverable Notifications
      • What's the difference between the name and short name of a deliverable?
      • Can deliverables for projects and tasks be inherited from associated requirements?
      • Why can't I delete a deliverable?
      • What happens when I duplicate a deliverable?
      • How can I set task completion event for a deliverable?
  • 4 Project Staffing Plan
    • Import Project Enterprise Resources
    • Adjust Cost and Bill Rates for a Project Enterprise Resource
    • FAQs for Project Staffing Plan
      • Can a project manager directly assign a resource to a project?
      • Can I replace an expense resource on a project?
      • Can I request a resource directly from a project?
      • How can I diagnose issues with project resources?
      • How can I find start and finish dates for a project or task to use on a project resource request?
      • How can I create a resource that is restricted to just one project?
      • What happens if a resource is allocated multiple times to a project with different rates?
      • What's the difference between a project enterprise labor resource and a project-specific resource?
      • Why can't I see the cost and bill rates for a resource?
  • 5 Execute Project Plan
    • Task Management
    • FAQs for Execute Project Plan
      • What's the difference between my tasks and tasks that I follow?
      • How can I add followers to a task?
      • What happens if I create a new task from my task list?
      • Why can't I edit a task?
      • Why can't I view the dependencies and deliverables for a task?
      • What tasks are available on the Manage Tasks page?
      • How can I view activities for all of my tasks?
  • 6 Track Project Progress
    • Progress Entry for Tasks
    • Best Practices for Proposed Task Changes
    • Project Milestones
    • FAQs for Track Project Progress
      • How can I report progress on a project task that's not in the project plan?
      • How can I copy and paste tasks in projects?
      • Why can't I create a task for a project?
      • Why can't I view progress for all tasks on a project?
      • Why can't I view my task in the Quick Progress region?
      • Why can't I see my tasks on the Manage Tasks page?
      • Why do some tasks have exceptions for progress entries?
      • How can I mark a task as finished?
  • 7 Project Changes
    • Change Orders
    • Create a Change Order and Add Impacts
    • Generate a Change Order from a Project Issue
    • Change Order Automation for Project Budget Adjustments
    • Manage Email Notifications
    • How can I extend the Change Reason field list in change orders?
  • 8 Project Performance
    • Sprint Burndown
    • How Sprint Burndown Is Calculated
    • Examples of Sprint Burndown
    • How Sprint Velocity Is Calculated
    • How Project Resource Allocation Is Calculated
    • Task Assignment Hours
    • Task Exceptions and How to Manage Them
    • Project Management Analysis
      • How Project Progress is Calculated
    • FAQs for Project Management Analysis
      • What's the difference between target percent complete and actual percent complete?
      • Why can't I view the project amounts graph?
      • How can I view a team member's allocation to my projects?
      • What happens if resource rates are missing?
      • Where do the project allocation and task assigned amounts come from?
      • Why are resources with 40 hours of allocated work shown as overallocated?
    • FAQs for Agile Graphs
      • Why did the ideal remaining hours change in the middle of the sprint?
      • What happens if I capture progress data?
      • When's the Capture Progress Data process triggered?
      • What's sprint velocity?
      • Why can't I see certain sprints on the Sprint Velocity graph?
      • What's a story point?
      • What's total backlog story point?
  • 9 Project Issues
    • Project Issues
    • Project Issue Notifications
    • FAQs for Project Issues
      • What happens when I filter issues using the Other projects filter on the dashboards?
      • Can I reopen an issue?
      • What's the difference between tasks, action items, issues, and deliverables?
      • What happens when I duplicate an issue?
      • Why can't I delete an issue?
  • 10 Resource Supply
    • Manage Project Resources Business Process
    • Project Resource Search Index
    • FAQs for Resource Supply
      • What happens if project resource request dates are outside the resource calendar effective dates?
      • Can I change the default value for the resource calendar that appears when I create a project enterprise labor resource?
      • Who can be a member of a resource pool?
      • How can I update my profile photo?
      • How can I attach a resume to my resource profile?
      • How can I enable a project enterprise resource for availability and staffing?
      • How can I edit the default billable percent reason?
  • 11 Resource Demand
    • Import Project Resource Requests Process
    • FAQs for Resource Demand
      • Can a project manager specify a resource for a project resource request?
      • Can I withdraw a project resource request to submit at a later date?
      • Are project resource request dates affected if I change the project on a request?
      • What happens if I cancel a project resource request?
      • What happens if I duplicate a project resource request?
      • When are project resource requests that project managers create visible to resource managers?
      • Can I edit, cancel, or withdraw a resource request that I created for a planned resource?
      • What happens to a resource on a task if I replace the resource on the project with a different resource?
      • What happens if a resource is no longer eligible to fulfill project resource requests?
      • What happens if I request a resource on a project that doesn't have a staffing owner?
      • Why can't I approve an adjustment for a project resource request?
  • 12 Resource Evaluation
    • Prerequisites for Searching for Suitable Resources
    • Resource Schedule
    • Project Resource Request Statuses
    • Workflow Notifications in Project Resource Management
    • Considerations for Nominating Resources on a Resource Request
    • Cost and Bill Rates for a Project Enterprise Labor Resource
    • FAQs for Resource Evaluation and Assignments
      • Can a resource manager approve a resource assignment to fulfill a project resource request?
      • Can I change the search criteria on a project resource request while reviewing search results?
      • How can I filter by resource travel preferences when searching for resources?
      • Can I search for qualified resources without a project?
      • Why can't I view project management or resource management pages?
      • Why can't I perform certain actions on the Manage Project Resources page?
      • When should I select the billable percent reason?
      • Can I add a resource with a specific role to a task?
      • Can I assign variable hours to a resource?
    • Review Resource Suitability for Position
      • How Resource Available Capacity Score Is Calculated
      • Examples of Resource Available Capacity Score
      • How Resource Qualification Score Is Calculated
      • Resource Qualification Score Components
      • Example of Resource Qualification Scores
      • How Resource Overall Match Score Is Calculated
      • Example of Matching Resource to Resource Request
      • FAQs for Review Resource Suitability for Position
        • How can I enter a keyword on a project resource request?
        • Why doesn't a resource have an availability score?
        • When are resume attachments included in a search for resource qualifications?
        • What are the indicators for the qualification, available capacity, and overall scores on a project resource request?
        • Why can a project manager and a resource manager obtain different qualification scores for a resource?
      • Can I search for resources in any resource pool?
  • 13 Resource Assignments
    • Gantt Chart
    • Project Resource Assignment Statuses
    • Project Resource Assignment Adjustments
    • Billable Assignment for Resource Requests
    • Variable Hours Assignment for Resource Requests
    • Import Project Resource Assignments Process
    • FAQs for Resource Assignments
      • Can a resource manager directly assign a resource to a project without creating a project resource request?
      • Can I change a resource reservation to a confirmed assignment on a project?
      • How can a resource manager adjust multiple resource assignments at the same time?
      • When does a resource appear in the list of resources to request for an assignment?
      • What's a project resource request type?
      • Why can't I cancel a resource assignment?
      • What's a reservation expiration date on a project assignment?
      • How can I edit the list of valid assignment reservation reasons?
      • Can I assign a future-hired resource to a project resource request?
  • 14 Resource Utilization and Analytics
    • Import Resource Actual Hours
    • How Resource Actual Utilization Is Calculated
    • Example of Resource Actual Utilization Calculation
    • How Resource Projected Utilization Is Calculated
    • Example of Resource Projected Utilization Calculation
    • How the Resource Target Utilization Percentage is Determined
    • How Resource Target Hours Are Calculated
    • FAQs for Resource Utilization and Analytics
      • Can I change the colors that appear on the Resource Manager Dashboard?
      • How can I update utilization data for resources and resource pools on the Resource Manager Dashboard?
      • What's the order of resource pools and resources in the Projected Utilization and Actual Utilization regions?
      • What's a work week in Project Resource Management?
      • How can I edit the default billable percent reason?
      • How can I view the metrics for billable assignments only?
  • 15 Oracle Digital Assistant for Project Management
    • Introduction to Oracle Digital Assistant
    • Project Management Using Oracle Digital Assistant