Microsoft Project 2007 : the missing manual / Bonnie Biafore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biafore, Bonnie.

Series:

Missing manual.

Missing manual

The missing manual

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Project.

Project management--Computer programs.

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (704 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : Pogue/O'Reilly, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Schedules, budgets, communications, resources. Projects big and small include them all, and Microsoft Project 2007 can help you control these variables -- not be controlled by them. But 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. Find out what's ne

Contents:

1.4.2.3. Internal rate of return1.5. Gaining Support for a Project; 1.5.2. Documenting Project Stakeholders; 1.6. Publicizing a Project and Its Manager; 2. Planning a Project; 2.2. Defining the Project; 2.2.2. Giving Meaning to a Project; 2.2.3. How Are You Going to Solve the Problem?; 2.2.4. Defining Project Objectives; 2.2.5. Identifying Project Results; 2.2.6. Gauging Success; 2.2.7. Defining Project Boundaries; 2.2.8. Documenting Project Assumptions; 2.3. Documenting How You&ll Run the Project; 2.4. Laying Out Project Processes; 2.4.2. Managing Change; 2.4.3. Managing Quality

2.4.4. Managing Risk2.4.4.2. Assessing risks; 2.4.4.3. Planning risk response; 2.4.4.4. Tracking risks; 3. Taking Microsoft Project for a Test Drive; 3.1.2. What Results Must Your Project Produce-and When?; 3.1.3. How Does Each Task Depend on Other Tasks?; 3.1.4. Who&s Going to Do the Work?; 3.1.4.2. Assign resources to tasks; 3.1.5. How Long Will All These Tasks Take?; 3.2. Saving Your Project; 4. Breaking Work intoTask-Sized Chunks; 4.1.1.2. Developing a WBS from start to finish; 4.1.1.3. Constructing a WBS from the bottom up; 4.1.2. When Is Enough Enough?

4.2. Building a WBS in Microsoft Project4.2.2. Creating and Modifying a WBS on the Fly; 4.3. Setting Up Customized WBS Codes; 4.4. Documenting a WBS in Another Program; 4.5. Importing a WBS into Project; 4.6. Documenting Work Package Details; 4.6.1.2. Opening a Word template; 4.6.2. Linking Work Packages to the Project Schedule; 5. Estimating Work Time; 5.2. Getting Good Estimates; 5.2.2. Ways to Estimate Work; 5.2.3. Getting Estimates from the Right People; 5.2.4. Don&t Ask for Only One Number; 5.2.5. Don&t Pad Estimates; 5.2.5.2. Using safety margins to increase success

5.2.6. Give Feedback on Estimates5.3. Getting Estimates into Project; 5.3.2. Importing Estimates into Project; 6. Setting Up a Project Schedule; 6.1.2. Using a Template to Create a Project File; 6.1.3. Fast Access to User Templates; 6.2. Saving a New Project; 6.2.2. Protecting Your Project Files; 6.3. Setting Up Project Options; 6.3.2. Setting the Standard Workdays; 6.3.2.2. Setting calendar options; 6.4. Adding Tasks to a Project; 6.4.2. Creating Milestones; 6.4.3. Creating Repeating Tasks; 6.5. Inserting, Moving, and Deleting Tasks; 6.5.2. Moving Tasks; 6.6. Copying Tasks

6.7. Modifying a Task&s Level in the Outline

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781306815185

1306815185

9780596517595

0596517599

9780596554996

0596554990

OCLC:

609841038