Microsoft Project for dummies
Book - 2022
"Microsoft Project For Dummies will guide Microsoft Project users through the steps of getting set up, started, and finding success with this project management program. Experience with the traditional suite of Office products like Word and Excel, but need to branch out for higher productivity and increased efficiency? Dummies can show you how, with Microsoft Project For Dummies! Learn how to use the 2021 version of Microsoft Project from the reference book that will never leave your desk. Getting set up and started ; How to connect Microsoft Project with other Office products ; Setting and sorting tasks ; Making modifications ; Applying and creating filters ; Estimating time ; Working with calendars."--
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Hoboken, NJ :
For Dummies, a Wiley brand
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "Learning made easy"--Cover.
Includes index. - Physical Description
- xiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781119858621
- Introduction
- About This Book
- What's Not in This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Getting Started with Project
- Chapter 1. Project Management, MS Project, and You
- Project Management Evolution
- What's in a Name: Projects, Project Management, and Project Managers
- Project managers and Scrum masters
- The role of the project manager
- The role of the Scrum master
- Introducing Microsoft Project
- Getting to Know You
- Navigating Ribbon tabs and the Ribbon
- Displaying more tools
- Tell Me What You Want to Do
- Chapter 2. Starting the Project
- Creating the Project Charter
- Introducing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Organizing the Work
- Starting the Project
- Entering project information
- Entering the WBS
- Indenting and outdenting (a.k.a. promoting and demoting)
- Entering tasks
- Weighing manual scheduling versus automatic scheduling
- Inserting one project into another
- Inserting hyperlinks
- Chapter 3. Becoming a Task Master
- Creating Summary Tasks and Subtasks
- How many levels can you go?
- The project summary task
- Moving Tasks Up, Down, and All Around
- Moving tasks with the drag-and-drop method
- Moving tasks with the cut-and-paste method
- Now You See It, Now You Don't: Collapsing and Expanding the Task Outline
- Showing Up Again and Again: Recurring Tasks
- Setting Milestones
- Deleting Tasks and Using Inactive Tasks
- Making a Task Note
- Chapter 4. The Codependent Nature of Tasks
- How Tasks Become Dependent
- Dependent tasks: Which comes first?
- Dependency types
- Allowing for Murphy's Law: Lag and lead time
- Setting the Dependency Connection
- Adding the dependency link
- Words to the wise
- Understanding that things change: Deleting dependencies
- Chapter 5. Estimating Task Time
- You're in. It for the Duration
- Tasks come in all flavors: Identifying task types
- Effort-driven tasks: 1 + 1 = ½
- Estimating Effort and Duration
- Estimating techniques
- Setting the task duration
- Controlling Timing with Constraints
- Understanding how constraints work
- Establishing constraints
- Setting a deadline
- Starting and Pausing Tasks
- Entering the task's start date
- Taking a break: Splitting tasks
- Chapter 6. Check Out This View!
- A Project with a View
- Navigating tabs and views
- Scrolling around
- Reaching a specific spot in your plan
- More Detail about Views
- Home base: Gantt Chart view
- Resourceful views: Resource Sheet and Team Planner
- Getting your timing down with the Timeline
- Going with the flow: Network Diagram view
- Calling up Calendar view
- Customizing Views
- Working with view panes
- Modifying Network Diagram view
- Resetting the view
- Part 2. Managing Resources
- Chapter 7. Creating Resources
- Resources: People, Places, and Things
- Becoming Resource-Full
- Understanding resources
- Resource types: Work, material, and cost
- How resources affect task timing
- Estimating resource requirements
- The Birth of a Resource
- Creating one resource at a time
- Identifying resources before you know their names
- Many hands make light work
- Managing Resource Availability
- Estimating and setting availability
- When a resource comes and goes
- Sharing Resources
- Skimming from resource pools
- Importing resources from Outlook
- Chapter 8. Working with Calendars
- Mastering Base, Project, Resource, and Task Calendars
- Setting the base calendar for a project
- Understanding the four calendar types
- How calendars work
- How one calendar relates to another
- Scheduling with Calendar Options and Working Times
- Setting calendar options
- Setting exceptions to working times
- Working with Task Calendars and Resource Calendars
- Setting resource calendars
- Making a change to a resource's calendar
- Creating a Custom Calendar Template
- Sharing Copies of Calendars
- Chapter 9. Assigning Resources
- Finding the Right Resource
- Needed: One good resource willing to work
- Custom fields: It's a skill
- Making a Useful Assignation
- Determining material and cost-resource units
- Making assignments
- Shaping the contour that's right for you
- Benefitting from a Helpful Planner
- Chapter 10. Determining a Project's Cost
- How Do Costs Accrue?
- Adding up the costs
- When will these costs hit the bottom line?
- Specifying Cost Information in the Project
- You can't avoid fixed costs
- Entering hourly, overtime, and cost-per-use rates
- Assigning material resources
- Part 3. Before You Baseline
- Chapter 11. Fine-Tuning Your Plan
- Everything Filters to the Bottom Line
- Setting predesigned filters
- Putting AutoFilter to work
- Creating do-it-yourself fitters
- Gathering Information in Groups
- Applying predefined groups
- Devising your own groups
- Figuring Out What's Driving the Project
- Inspecting tasks
- Handling task warnings, suggestions, and problems
- Chapter 12. Negotiating Project Constraints
- It's about Time
- Applying contingency reserve
- Completing a task in less time
- Getting What You Want for Less
- The Resource Recourse
- Checking resource availability
- Deleting or modifying a resource assignment
- Beating overallocations with quick-and-dirty rescheduling
- Finding help
- Leveling resources
- Rescheduling the Project
- Chapter 13. Making the Project Look Good
- Looking Good!
- Formatting the Gantt Chart
- Formatting taskbars
- Zeroing in on critical issues
- Restyling the Gantt chart
- Formatting Network Diagram Boxes
- Adjusting the Layout
- Modifying Gridlines
- Recognizing When a Picture Can Say It All
- Creating a Custom Text Field
- Chapter 14. It All Begins with a Baseline
- All about Baselines
- Saving a baseline
- Saving more than one baseline
- Clearing and resetting a baseline
- In the Interim
- Saving an interim plan
- Clearing and resetting an interim plan
- Part 4. Staying on Track
- Chapter 15. On the Right Track
- Tracking Views
- Setting the status date
- Tracking status with the Task sheet
- Using the Tracking table
- Tracking buttons
- Determining the percent complete
- Tracking status with Task Usage view
- Tracking status with Resource Usage view
- Uh-oh - you're in overtime
- Specifying remaining durations for auto-scheduled tasks
- Entering fixed-cost updates
- Moving a Task
- Update Project: Sweeping Changes
- Tracking Materials
- Tracking More than One Project
- Chapter 16. Project Views: Observing Progress
- Seeing Where Tasks Stand
- Baseline versus actual progress
- Lines of progress
- Delving into the Detail
- Tracking Progress Using Earned Value Management
- Viewing the Earned Value table
- Earned value options
- Calculating behind the Scenes
- An abundance of critical paths
- Chapter 17. You're Behind - Now What?
- Using Project with Risk and Issue Logs
- Documenting issues
- Printing interim plans and baselines
- What-If Scenarios
- Sorting tasks
- Filtering
- Examining the critical path
- Using resource leveling (again)
- Determining which factors are driving the timing of a task
- How Adding People or Time Affects the Project
- Hurrying up and making modifications
- Throwing resources at the problem
- Shifting dependencies and task timing
- When All Else Fails
- Taking the time you need
- Finding ways to cut corners
- Chapter 18. Spreading the News: Reporting
- Generating Standard Reports
- What's available on the Report tab
- Dashboard reports
- Creating New Reports
- Gaining a new perspective on data with visual reports
- Creating a visual report
- Fine-Tuning a Report
- Dragging, dropping, and sizing
- Looking good!
- Spiffing Things Up
- Calling the Printer!
- Working with Page Setup
- Getting a preview
- Finalizing your print options
- Working on the Timeline
- Adding tasks to the Timeline
- Customizing the Timeline
- Copying the Timeline
- Part 5. Working with Sprints Projects
- Chapter 19. Setting Up a Sprints Project
- Creating a Sprints Project
- Enjoying a Whole New View
- The Task Board and Task Board sheet
- The Sprint Planning Board and Sprint Planning sheet
- The Current Sprint Board and Current Sprint sheet
- The Backlog Board and the Backlog sheet
- Adding Information to Tasks
- Prioritizing Tasks
- Inserting a Sprints Project into a Plan-Driven Project
- Chapter 20. Tracking a Sprints Project
- Viewing Your Sprints Project Data
- Using filters to focus
- Using tables to arrange data
- Being a groupie
- Sorting tasks
- Creating Sprints Reports
- Chapter 21. Getting Better All the Time
- Reviewing the Project
- Learning from your mistakes
- Fine-tuning communication
- Comparing Versions of a Project
- Building on Success
- Creating a template
- Mastering the Organizer
- Part 6. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 22. Ten Golden Rules of Project Management
- Roll with it
- Put Your Ducks in a Row
- Expect the Unexpected
- Don't Put Off until Tomorrow
- Delegate, Delegate, Delegate
- Document It
- Keep the Team in the Loop
- Measure Success
- Maintain a Flexible Strategy
- Learn from Your Mistakes
- Chapter 23. Ten Cool Shortcut in Project
- Task Information
- Resource Information
- Frequently Used Functions
- Subtasks
- Quick Selections
- Fill Down
- Navigation
- Hours to Years
- Timeline Shortcuts
- Quick Undo
- Glossary