Microsoft Project 2010 In Depth

Description

• Copyright 2011
• Edition: 1st

• Book
• ISBN-10: 0-7897-4310-8
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-4310-7

This is the world’s most expert, complete, and practical guide to succeeding with Microsoft Project 2010! World-renowned project management consultants QuantumPM help you improve Project 2010 planning, scheduling, resource assignments, budgeting, collaboration, workload analysis, progress reporting, completion, closure, and more. Get comfortable with Project 2010, leverage its immense power, and tailor it to your unique needs–no matter how large or complex your project may be!

Real solutions, new techniques, innovative shortcuts!

•           Get started fast with Microsoft Project 2010 and its new Ribbon interface

•           Plan and initiate your project to maximize the likelihood of success

•           Create an effective preliminary project schedule

•           Accurately define task logic and project resources

•           Prepare work formulas and schedule resource assignments

•           Refine and review your schedules, and perform an effective “Reality Check”

•           Use Project 2010 to collaborate more efficiently with colleagues and partners

•           Track progress and costs, and analyze project performance

•           Customize Project 2010’s reports, views, tables, filters, groups, fields, toolbars, menus, and forms

•           Work with multiple projects at once, and resolve complex resource allocation problems

•           Analyze and present Project data in other applications, including Excel and Visio

•           Identify and solve problems with your project and with Project 2010 itself

All In Depth books offer

•           Comprehensive coverage with detailed solutions

•           Troubleshooting help for tough problems you can’t fix on your own

•           Outstanding authors recognized worldwide for their expertise and teaching style

Learning, reference, problem-solving…the only Project 2010 book you need!

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

    Why We Wrote This Book 1

    Why You Should Use Microsoft Project 2

    What’s New in Microsoft Project 2010 2

    How This Book Is Organized 3

        Part I: Getting Started with Microsoft Project 2010 3

        Part II: Organizing for Success–Project Initiation and Planning 3

        Part III: Project Execution Through Completion 4

        Part IV: Tailoring Microsoft Office Project 2010 to Your Needs 4

        Part V: Microsoft Office Project 2010 Knowledge In Depth 5

    Who Should Read This Book 5

    Special Features of This Book 5

    I    Getting Started with Microsoft Project 2010

    1    Power of Microsoft Project 2010 7

    Projects Are Temporary 8

    Project Objectives Are Specific and Measurable 9

    Projects Are Constrained by Time, Cost, Scope, and Quality 9

    What Microsoft Project 2010 Can Do for You 10

    Enterprise Versus Standard Thinking 12

        The Desktop Tools: Project Standard and Project Professional 12

    What’s New in Microsoft Office Project 2010 13

        The Microsoft Fluent Interface 13

        User-Controlled Scheduling 13

        Timeline View 14

        Team Planner 15

    Introduction to the Microsoft Project 2010 Interface 17

        Microsoft Project 2010 Ribbon 18

        The Quick Access Toolbar 19

    Consultants’ Tips 20

        Go Ahead and Ignore Project Management If It Suits Your Role 21

        Communicate 21

        Define Project Roles 21

        Define Project Deliverables Prior to Building the Schedule 21

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