Bonnie Biafore has always been a zealous organizer of everything from software demos to gourmet meals, with the occasional vacation trip to test the waters of spontaneity. Ironically, fate, not planning, turned this obsession into a career as a project manager. When Bonnie realized she was managing projects, her penchant for planning and follow-through kicked in and she earned a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute.
When she isn’t managing projects for clients, Bonnie writes about project management, personal finance and investing, and technology. As an engineer, she’s fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. She has a knack for mincing these dry subjects into easy-to-understand morsels and then spices them to perfection with her warped sense of humor.
Bonnie is also the author of On Time! On Track! On Target!, QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual, and several other award-winning books. Project Certification Insider, her monthly column for the Microsoft Project Users Group, explains the ins and outs of topics on Microsoft’s Project desktop certification exam. When unshackled from her computer, she hikes in the mountains with her dogs, cycles, cooks ethnic food, and writes fiction. You can learn more at her Web site, http://www.bonniebiafore.com or email Bonnie at bonnie.biafore@gmail.com.
Brian Sawyer (editor) is an editor for O’Reilly Media’s Head First division. He’s also served as lead editor for the company’s popular Hacks series, editor for Missing Manuals and Make: Books, and contributing editor to Craft magazine. When not writing or editing about technology, he uses it to help train for marathons (see Chapter 4 of Best Android Apps).
Kristen Borg (production editor) is a recent graduate of the publishing program at Emerson College. Now living in Boston, she originally hails from sunny Arizona, and considers New England winters an adequate trade for no longer finding scorpions in her hairdryer.
Sean Earp (technical reviewer), CISSP, MCITP is Program Manager at a large software company in Redmond, specializing in Project, Project Server, and SharePoint technologies. Trained in the school of hard knocks, Sean has experienced nearly every project management pitfall outlined in Project 2010: The Missing Manual. When not in front of his computer, Sean likes spending time with his wife and three wonderful kids, being a Cub Scout leader, and is training for a marathon.
Michael Wharton (technical reviewer), MBA, PMP, MCT, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS is the President of Wharton Computer Consulting, Inc. He has been a software developer and project manager for the past 10 years. He is active in the PMI and MPUG community and many technical user groups such as PASS and the .NET User Group. He is happily married to his wife Gwen and loves spending time with his family when not working on his computer.
The credit for the publication of this book goes to an awesome project team. My thanks go to Brian Sawyer, Nellie McKesson, and the rest of the O’Reilly folks for shepherding my book through the publication process. I am grateful for the eagle eye of Julie Van Keuren, the copyeditor, for wrangling punctuation, capitalization, and ungainly sentences into submission. The technical reviewers, Michael Wharton and Sean Earp, caught my mistakes and shared their knowledge of the finer points of Microsoft Project and SharePoint.
I am fortunate to have more good friends than my prickly personality deserves. Special thanks go to all of them—who still speak to me after an extraordinarily trying winter of book writing.
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