Synopses & Reviews
This book will be a practical guide to using Microsoft Project 2007 from a real project management practitioner’s perspective. It will incorporate best practices and follow the natural process flow of project planning through tracking and closure. The goal of this book is not to overwhelm and impress the reader with how many features can be crammed between the covers, but instead, place value on getting project managers using Project properly and as quickly as possible.
Readers can begin planning their projects immediately, using best practices and see quick results from applying the techniques they have learned. This is a how-to book on project planning, tracking and reporting using Microsoft Project and not a product reference guide which is what the market is currently flooded with.
Synopsis
- Places priority on getting project managers using Project 2007--the leading software tool for project managers--properly and as quickly as possible
- Incorporates best practices to use during the natural process flow of project planning through tracking and closure
- Explains how to use Project 2007 to manage resources, share project info, perform modeling and scenario analyses, and standardize reporting processes
- Reviews the enhancements of Project 2007 from the 2003 version, including tools that show what factors are affecting a project's schedule and how slippages will affect other aspects of a project
Synopsis
Project Manager’s Guide to Microsoft Office Project 2007is your practical guide to project planning using Microsoft Project 2007 because it follows the natural process flow of project planning through tracking and closure. Learn how to use Project properly and as quickly as possible so that you can begin planning your projects immediately. This how-to book on project-planning, tracking and reporting using Microsoft Project is not a product reference guide but a helpful and easy-to-follow book that appeals directly to a project management practitioner’s needs.