Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore

Overview

Microsoft Project is brimming with features to help you manage any project, large or small. But learning the software is only half the battle. What you really need is real-world guidance: how to prep your project before touching your PC, which Project tools work best, and which ones to use with care. This book explains it all, helping you go from project manager to project master.

• Get a project management primer. Discover what it takes to handle a project successfully
• Learn the program inside out. Get step-by-step instructions for Project Standard and Project Professional
• Build and refine your plan. Put together your team, schedule, and budget
• Achieve the results you want. Build realistic schedules, and learn how to keep costs under control
• Track your progress. Measure your performance, make course corrections, and manage changes
• Use Project's power tools. Customize Project's features and views, and transfer info directly between Project and other programs

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449394165
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/21/2010
Series:	Missing Manual Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	770
File size:	16 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Bonnie Biafore is an award-wining author of more than a dozen books, including Missing Manuals on Quicken 2009, QuickBooks 2009, and Project 2007, as well as The Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook, Online Investing Hacks, and On Time! On Track! On Target!. She also writes regularly about financial topics for Better Investing bankrate.com and interest.com. As an engineer, she's fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better, and has a knack for mincing dry subjects like accounting and project management into easy-to-understand morsels and spicing them up with her warped sense of humor.

Table of Contents

• The Missing Credits
• Introduction
• Part One: Project Management: The Missing Manual
  • Chapter 1: Projects: In the Beginning
  • Chapter 2: Planning a Project
  • Chapter 3: Taking Microsoft Project for a Test Drive
  • Chapter 4: Breaking Work into Task-Sized Chunks
  • Chapter 5: Estimating Task Work and Duration
  • Chapter 6: Setting Up a Project Schedule
  • Chapter 7: Making a Schedule That's Easy to Maintain
• Part Two: Project Planning: More Than Creating a Schedule
  • Chapter 8: Building a Team for Your Project
  • Chapter 9: Connecting Resources to Tasks
  • Chapter 10: Does the Schedule Work?
  • Chapter 11: Setting Up a Project Budget
  • Chapter 12: Refining a Project Schedule
  • Chapter 13: Saving the Project Plan
• Part Three: Projects in Action
  • Chapter 14: Tracking Progress
  • Chapter 15: Evaluating Project Performance
  • Chapter 16: Managing Change
  • Chapter 17: Reporting on Projects
  • Chapter 18: Closing a Project
• Part Four: Project Power Tools
  • Chapter 19: Working on Multiple Projects
  • Chapter 20: Exchanging Data Between Programs
  • Chapter 21: Linking and Embedding
  • Chapter 22: Project on the Internet
• Part Five: Customizing Project
  • Chapter 23: Viewing What You Want
  • Chapter 24: Defining Your Own Fields
  • Chapter 25: Customizing the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
  • Chapter 26: Reusable Project: Templates
  • Chapter 27: Saving Time with Macros
• Part Six: Appendixes
  • Installing Project
  • Getting Help for Project
  • Keyboard Shortcuts