By Bonnie Biafore
First Edition
August 2007
Pages: 702
Series: The Missing Manuals
ISBN 10: 0-596-52836-1 |
ISBN 13: 9780596528362
Microsoft Project 2007 helps users control the variables on any project, big or small -- such as schedules, budgets, communications, and changes -- rather than be controlled by them. Written by project management expert Bonnie Biafore, this book teaches readers how to do everything from setting, tracking, and adjusting schedules and budgets to testing scenarios and and recognizing trouble spots before your project breaks down.
Full Description
Find out what's new in Project 2007 from previous versions, and get help choosing the right edition, whether it's Project Standard, Project Professional, or Enterprise Project Management Solution. With Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual, you get more than a simple software how-to. You also get a rundown on project management basics and plenty of solid advice on how to use Project to:
- Define your project and plan your approach
- Estimate your project, set up a budget, define tasks, and break the work into manageable chunks
- Create a schedule, define the sequence of work, and learn the right way to use date constraints and deadlines
- Build a project team and assign resources to tasks: "who does what"
- Refine the project to satisfy objectives by building reality into the schedule, and learn to keep project costs under control
- Track progress and communicate with team members via reports, information sharing, and meetings that work
- Close out your project and take away valuable lessons for the future
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"Project is complex software, and learning it is, well, a project in itself. Get up to speed fast with Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual. Written by project management expert Bonnie Biafore, this book teaches you how to do everything from setting budgets and tracking schedules to testing scenarios and recognizing trouble spots before your project breaks down...With Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual, you get more than a simple software how-to. You also get a rundown on project management basics and plenty of solid advice on how to use Project."
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