Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual

Acknowledgments

No O’Reilly book that I author can go to print without me acknowledging the awesome team at O’Reilly. Dawn Mann is editor extraordinaire. She can spot potential points of confusion in my writing from a mile away and usually comes up with a wonderfully clear alternative. If she’s stumped, she asks for clarification in a way that even a diva (oh, I so hope I haven’t become one) wouldn’t mind. She stays on top of details, so they’re taken care of before anyone even thinks to ask. She has earned my gratitude for keeping me company via email as we both worked weekend after weekend to complete this book. My thanks go to Melanie Yarbrough 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 proofreader, for wrangling punctuation, capitalization, and ungainly sentences into submission.

The technical reviewers Sean Earp and Michael Wharton caught my mistakes and shared their knowledge of the finer points of project management, Microsoft Project, and SharePoint. I was fortunate to have them as guinea pigs for the many sections that I ripped apart and put back together. Fortunately, my rewrites successfully passed their gimlet-eyed scrutiny.

I also want to thank a few old friends and several new ones in the project-management community. Teresa Stover is a wonderful writer, a good friend, and a trusted colleague who is always willing to pitch in to dissect gnarly Project features despite ...