Synopses & Reviews
Experience learning made easy - and quickly teach yourself how to manage the complete project life cycle with Project 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace - building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!
- Work with Project 2013 on your PC or touch-enabled device
- Build and fine-tune your project plan
- Schedule tasks and milestones, and assign resources
- Track progress and costs, and manage variances
- Troubleshoot delays and budget overruns
- Customize Gantt chart views, tables, and calendars
- Learn project-management best practices
About the Author
Carl Chatfield is the co-author of Microsoft Project 2000 Step by Step and Microsoft Project Version 2002 Step by Step, both from Microsoft Press. Carl is the User Assistance Manager for Office Project at Microsoft Corporation. He is a certified Project Management Professional with extensive knowledge of Office Project as well as specific usability issues.
Timothy is a technical editor with the Office Project User Assistance group, and he previously worked as an Office Project support professional for six years. He possesses in-depth technical knowledge about the software.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Introduction to Microsoft Project
- Chapter 1: Microsoft Project, project management and you
- Chapter 2: A guided tour of Project
- Simple Scheduling Basics
- Chapter 3: Starting a new plan
- Chapter 4: Building a task list
- Chapter 5: Setting up resources
- Chapter 6: Assigning resources to tasks
- Chapter 7: Formatting and sharing your plan
- Chapter 8: Tracking progress
- Advanced Scheduling Techniques
- Chapter 9: Advanced task scheduling
- Chapter 10: Fine-tuning task details
- Chapter 11: Fine-tuning resource and assignment details
- Chapter 12: Fine-tuning the Project plan
- Chapter 13: Organizing project details
- Chapter 14: Tracking progress on tasks and assignments
- Chapter 15: Viewing and reporting project status
- Chapter 16: Getting your project back on track
- In-Depth and Special Subjects
- Chapter 17: Applying advanced formatting and printing
- Chapter 18: Advanced report formatting
- Chapter 19: Customizing Project
- Chapter 20: Sharing information with other programs
- Chapter 21: Consolidating projects and resources
- Appendices
- A short course in project management
- Developing your project-management skills
- Collaborating: Project, SharePoint, and PWA
- Using this book in a classroom
- Glossary
- About the authors