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The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore. Get up to speed on Microsoft Project and learn how to manage projects large and small. The important stuff you need to know Learn Project inside out. Get hands-on instructions for the Standard and Professional editions. Start with a project management primer.
Microsoft Project The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Discover what it takes to handle a project successfully. Build and refine your plan. Put together your team, schedule, and budget. Achieve the results you want. Build realistic schedules with Project, and learn how to keep costs under control. Measure your performance, make course corrections, and manage changes. Communicate clearly to stakeholders and team members using charts, tables, and dashboards. Paperback , pages. Published April 30th by Pogue Press first published January 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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To ask other readers questions about Microsoft Project , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Microsoft Project Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. May 24, loafingcactus rated it liked it Shelves: This book is the bomb! Boy was I wrong! The author not only goes over MS Project, but also where you might want to use Excel or some other solution to solve a particular project management problem. It is soup to nuts everything you need to get most out of MS Project. It only got three stars because it's not War and Peace, nothing against the book, This book is the bomb!
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It only got three stars because it's not War and Peace, nothing against the book, which I really have zero hesitation in recommending for its purpose! I grade on a curve and computer manuals, missing or otherwise, are never going to get to the top of the curve.
Sep 23, Ivo Stoykov rated it it was ok Shelves: The Missing Manual shows MS Project features in a consecutive manner, but for me more than pages book comes a little bit overdone. Also for me samples were somehow scattered and I had to leaf back and forth to keep the thread. Anyway the book is in general useful. Martyn Perry rated it really liked it Mar 23, Pierre-philippe rated it liked it Mar 05, Brett Leftwich rated it did not like it Aug 31, Steve Goodyear rated it really liked it Oct 02, Mark B Scales rated it really liked it Oct 17, Sergio rated it it was amazing May 15, Benoit rated it really liked it Mar 05, Keith rated it did not like it Mar 10, Aly rated it liked it Apr 04, Evan Phillips rated it it was amazing Apr 03, Paul Fitzpatrick rated it liked it Dec 27, Patrick Morgan Howington rated it did not like it May 22, Julien rated it it was amazing Sep 15, Jorge rated it liked it Sep 19, Jim rated it liked it Jan 12, Jack rated it liked it Aug 26, Part 1 is a primer on project management and I was surprised that there was so much about this including project selection.
The project manager needs some publicity, too. Your authority comes from your project and its sponsor, not your position in the organisation, so people need to know how far your authority goes. You need authority, but you also need credibility, so choose someone who can give that to you, not any old senior manager in a suit. The book only covers the Standard and Professional editions, not Project Server.
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Some of the suite features are covered but that software is evolving and the book is likely to get out of date quickly and Biafore acknowledges that. There are usability tips like collapsing the ribbon so you can see more of your plan on the screen and keyboard shortcuts. She also includes tips on using other Microsoft products alongside Project, such as how to create a RACI matrix in Excel and importing resource names from your Outlook contacts.
The book is full of tips like how to create a resource and assign it to tasks at the same time, which are all aimed at getting you operational faster.
Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual
They make the book more useful and give it a longer shelf life and the added resources will help you get your project on track more quickly. You could get really whizzy with your resource management using the advice in this book, but many of the features described will be far too much detail for the average project. As well as detailed walkthroughs and how to information, there is also practical advice for making the best possible schedule. For example, Biafore says you should be on the look out for these 8 things as you refine your schedule:.
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This would help new project managers work out which features they should use like dependencies and baselines and which ones they can leave and learn about another day like creating an Excel form to display task information from Project and use it to get task updates from team members. At over pages the book covers a lot of ground.
Much of that is screenshots, which are good and helpful. Your email address will not be published. A Girl's Guide to Project Management is a blog for project, programme and portfolio managers and project delivery professionals.