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Experience learning made easy - and quickly teach yourself how to manage the complete project life cycle with Project 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace - building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!
Work with Project 2013 on your PC or touch-enabled device
Build and fine-tune your project plan
Schedule tasks and milestones, and assign resources
Track progress and costs, and manage variances
Troubleshoot delays and budget overruns
Customize Gantt chart views, tables, and calendars
Learn project-management best practices
List of contents
- Introduction
- Introduction to Microsoft Project
- Chapter 1: Microsoft Project, project management and you
- Chapter 2: A guided tour of Project
- Simple Scheduling Basics
- Chapter 3: Starting a new plan
- Chapter 4: Building a task list
- Chapter 5: Setting up resources
- Chapter 6: Assigning resources to tasks
- Chapter 7: Formatting and sharing your plan
- Chapter 8: Tracking progress
- Advanced Scheduling Techniques
- Chapter 9: Advanced task scheduling
- Chapter 10: Fine-tuning task details
- Chapter 11: Fine-tuning resource and assignment details
- Chapter 12: Fine-tuning the Project plan
- Chapter 13: Organizing project details
- Chapter 14: Tracking progress on tasks and assignments
- Chapter 15: Viewing and reporting project status
- Chapter 16: Getting your project back on track
- In-Depth and Special Subjects
- Chapter 17: Applying advanced formatting and printing
- Chapter 18: Advanced report formatting
- Chapter 19: Customizing Project
- Chapter 20: Sharing information with other programs
- Chapter 21: Consolidating projects and resources
- Appendices
- A short course in project management
- Developing your project-management skills
About the author
Carl Chatfield and Timothy Johnson are the authors of every version of the popular Microsoft Project Step by Step going back to Project 2000.Carl is a principal content project manager at Microsoft, where he oversees development of user assistance material, UI text, and web content for a range of products and services.Tim is a program manager at Microsoft who has extensive experience with Microsoft Project, going back to Project 3.0. He is a former member of the Project User Assistance team.
Summary
Experience learning made easy - and quickly teach yourself how to manage the complete project life cycle with Project 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace - building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!
- Work with Project 2013 on your PC or touch-enabled device
- Build and fine-tune your project plan
- Schedule tasks and milestones, and assign resources
- Track progress and costs, and manage variances
- Troubleshoot delays and budget overruns
- Customize Gantt chart views, tables, and calendars
- Learn project-management best practices
