Book description
Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft Project 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to effectively manage all your projects.
Here’s WHAT you’ll learn:
Develop a project plan and schedule resources
Pull together your team and plan their assignments
Understand dependencies and mitigate risks
Stay on top of progress, delays, and costs
Make adjustments and updates quickly
Communicate with clear, customized reports
Here’s HOW you’ll learn it:
Jump in wherever you need answers
Follow easy STEPS and SCREENSHOTS to see exactly what to do
Get handy TIPS for new techniques and shortcuts
Use TRY THIS! exercises to apply what you learn right away
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- 1. About this book
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2. Getting started with Project 2013
- Understanding Project terminology
- Understanding how tasks and resources relate to each other
- Navigating Microsoft Project
- Understanding the Backstage view
- Adding commands to the ribbon
- Collapsing and pinning the ribbon
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
- Understanding views, tables, filters, and groups
- Selecting a different view
- Displaying the View Bar
- Displaying a different table
- Selecting a different filter
- Selecting a different group
- Working with and inserting columns in a table
- Hiding a column
- Moving a column
- Resizing a column
- Saving a modified view
- Displaying the Project Summary Task
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3. Getting the Project basics right
- Assigning a different calendar as the Project Calendar
- Setting the calendar’s working week
- Defining public and organizational holidays
- Defining the calendar options
- Entering the project start date
- Setting the project properties and basic options
- Setting the project currency
- Changing the default view and date format
- Saving the project to a local drive
- Saving the project to SkyDrive
- Saving the project to Project Server 2013 or Project Online
- Saving and synchronizing the project to SharePoint 2013
- 4. Creating and modifying tasks
- 5. Setting estimates
- 6. Linking the tasks
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7. Assigning and managing resources
- Creating work resources quickly in the Gantt Chart view
- Creating resources using the Resource Sheet
- Modifying resources
- Changing the maximum units for a resource
- Changing a resource’s working day
- Entering resource holidays
- Assigning a single work resource to a task
- Assigning multiple work resources to a task
- Adjusting the work, duration, and assignment units for a task
- Assigning material resources to a task
- Assigning cost resources to a task
- Resolving overallocated resources using the Task Inspector
- Resolving overallocated resources using the Team Planner
- Deleting resources
- 8. Adding external dependencies and deadlines
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9. Communicating the plan
- Formatting the table area
- Formatting individual bars or a selection of bars
- Formatting all the bars at once
- Viewing the Task Path
- Displaying the critical path
- Showing and hiding dependency links
- Viewing and printing the Project Overview report
- Viewing and copying burndown reports
- Printing the project schedule
- Using Visual Reports
- Using the Timeline view
- Formatting the Timeline view
- Copying the Timeline view to other applications
- Printing the Timeline view
- Sharing the plan using SharePoint
- Synchronizing with a SharePoint task list
- Emailing the project schedule
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10. Updating and replanning
- Setting a baseline
- Clearing a baseline
- Updating an existing baseline
- Rescheduling the entire plan to start on a new date
- Updating %Complete for individual tasks
- Updating %Work Complete for specific tasks
- Setting and displaying the Status Date
- Updating %Complete for the entire project at once
- Updating tasks with Actual Start, Actual Duration, and Remaining Duration
- Updating tasks with actual work done per period and remaining work
- Rescheduling uncompleted work to a future date
- Moving tasks forward or backward in the schedule
- Amending remaining duration and work estimates
- 11. Closing the project
- A. About the Author
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Microsoft: Project 2013 Plain & Simple
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735672888
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