Introduction |
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Part 1: Getting Started With Project 2019 |
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Chapter 1 Project Management, Project 2019, and You |
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Introducing Project Management |
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Identifying what a project manager does |
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Navigating Ribbon tabs and the Ribbon |
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Tell Me What You Want to Do |
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Chapter 2 Starting the Project |
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Creating the Project Charter |
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Introducing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) |
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Entering project information |
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Weighing manual scheduling versus automatic scheduling |
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Importing tasks from Outlook |
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Inserting one project into another |
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Promoting and demoting: The outdent-and-indent shuffle |
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Chapter 3 Becoming a Task Master |
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Creating Summary Tasks and Subtasks |
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How many levels can you go? |
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Moving Tasks Up, Down, and All Around |
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Moving tasks with the drag-and-drop method |
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Moving tasks with the cut-and-paste method |
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Collapsing and -Expanding the Task Outline |
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Showing Up Again and Again: Recurring Tasks |
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Deleting Tasks and Using Inactive Tasks |
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Chapter 4 The Codependent Nature of Tasks |
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How Tasks Become Dependent |
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Dependent tasks: Which comes first? |
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Allowing for Murphy's Law: Lag and lead time |
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Setting the Dependency Connection |
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Adding the dependency link |
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Understanding that things change: Deleting dependencies |
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Chapter 5 Estimating Task Time |
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You're in It for the Duration |
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Tasks come in all flavors: Identifying task types |
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Effort-driven tasks: 1 + 1 = 1/2 |
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Estimating Effort and Duration |
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Setting the task duration |
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Controlling Timing with Constraints |
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Understanding how constraints work |
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Starting and Pausing Tasks |
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Entering the task's start date |
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Taking a break: Splitting tasks |
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Chapter 6 Check Out This View! |
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Navigating tabs and views |
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Reaching a specific spot in your plan |
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Home base: Gantt Chart view |
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Resourceful views: Resource Sheet and Team Planner |
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Getting your timing down with the Timeline |
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Going with the flow: Network Diagram view |
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Modifying Network Diagram view |
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Part 2: Managing Resources |
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Chapter 7 Creating Resources |
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Resources: People, Places, and Things |
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Resource types: Work, material, and cost |
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How resources affect task timing |
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Estimating resource requirements |
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Creating one resource at a time |
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Identifying resources before you know their names |
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Many hands make light work |
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Managing Resource Availability |
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Estimating and setting availability |
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When a resource comes and goes |
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Skimming from resource pools |
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Importing resources from Outlook |
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Chapter 8 Working with Calendars |
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Mastering Base, Project, Resource, and Task Calendars |
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Setting the base calendar for a project |
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Understanding the four calendar types |
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How one calendar relates to another |
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Scheduling with Calendar Options and Working Times |
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Setting exceptions to working times |
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Working with Task Calendars and Resource Calendars |
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Setting resource calendars |
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Making the change to a resource's calendar |
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Creating a Custom Calendar Template |
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Sharing Copies of Calendars |
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Chapter 9 Assigning Resources |
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Finding the Right Resource |
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Needed: One good resource willing to work |
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Custom fields: It's a skill |
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Making a Useful Assignation |
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Determining material and cost-resource units |
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Shaping the contour that's right for you |
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Benefitting from a Helpful Planner |
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Chapter 10 Determining a Project's Cost |
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When will this hit the bottom line? |
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Specifying Cost Information in the Project |
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You can't avoid fixed costs |
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Entering hourly, overtime, and cost-per-use rates |
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Assigning material resources |
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How Your Settings Affect Your Costs |
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Part 3: Before You Baseline |
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Chapter 11 Fine-Tuning Your Plan |
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Everything Filters to the Bottom Line |
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Setting predesigned filters |
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Putting AutoFilter to work |
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Creating do-it-yourself filters |
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Gathering Information in Groups |
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Applying predefined groups |
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Figuring Out What's Driving the Project |
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Handling task warnings and suggestions |
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Chapter 12 Negotiating Project Constraints |
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Applying contingency reserve |
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Completing a task in less time |
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Getting What You Want for Less |
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Checking resource availability |
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Deleting or modifying a resource assignment |
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Beating overallocations with quick-and-dirty rescheduling |
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Chapter 13 Making the Project Look Good |
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Formatting the Gantt Chart |
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Zeroing in on critical issues |
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Restyling the Gantt chart |
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Recognizing When a Picture Can Say It All |
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Creating a Custom Text Field |
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Chapter 14 It All Begins with a Baseline |
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Saving more than one baseline |
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Clearing and resetting a baseline |
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Clearing and resetting an interim plan |
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Part 4: Staying On Track |
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Chapter 15 On the Right Track |
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Developing a Communications Management Plan |
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Applying a tracking method |
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For everything, there's a view |
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Tracking Work for the Record |
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Specifying the status date |
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Determining the percent complete |
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Recording start and finish information |
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Knowing what to do when John works three hours and Mary works ten |
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Specifying remaining durations for auto-scheduled tasks |
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Entering fixed-cost updates |
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Update Project: Sweeping Changes |
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Tracking More Than One: Consolidated Projects |
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Updating consolidated projects |
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Chapter 16 Project Views: Observing Progress |
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Baseline versus actual progress |
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Tracking Progress Using Earned Value Management |
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Calculating Behind the Scenes |
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An abundance of critical paths |
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Chapter 17 You're Behind-Now What? |
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Using Project with Risk and Issue Logs |
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Printing interim plans and baselines |
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Examining the critical path |
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Using resource leveling (again) |
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Determining which factors are driving the timing of a task |
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How Adding People or Time Affects the Project |
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Hurrying up and making modifications |
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Throwing resources at the problem |
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Shifting dependencies and task timing |
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Finding ways to cut corners |
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Chapter 18 Spreading the News: Reporting |
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Generating Standard Reports |
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Overviewing the dashboard reports |
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Gaining a new perspective on data with visual reports |
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Dragging, dropping, and sizing |
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Adding tasks to the Timeline |
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Chapter 19 Getting Better All the Time |
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Learning from your mistakes |
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Comparing Versions of a Project |
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Part 5: The Part Of Tens |
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Chapter 20 Ten Golden Rules of Project Management |
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Don't Put Off until Tomorrow |
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Delegate, Delegate, Delegate |
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Keep the Team in the Loop |
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Maintain a Flexible Strategy |
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Chapter 21 Ten Cool Shortcuts in Project 2019 |
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Frequently Used Functions |
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Appendix: Glossary |
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Index |
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