Key points:
- A brief introduction to Microsoft Project, intended to get novice users started
- Demonstration of key Microsoft Project elements
The past few decades have seen the development of many excellent project management software products. Microsoft Project is easy to use and is widely available. It provides excellent quantitative support in the form of critical path method (CPM), develops network graphs automatically, and has very good report generating facilities. It also has resource usage and cost accounting capabilities. The manager can use Microsoft Project to do sophisticated analysis of alternatives through resource leveling.
This chapter is meant to provide a brief introductory guide to Microsoft Project. ...
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