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Blow past the jargon and get hands-on, practical guidance on managing any project with Microsoft Project. Original. Illustrations. Appendix. Index.

Blow past the jargon and get hands-on, practical guidance on managing any project with Microsoft Project 

Lean. Agile. Hybrid. It seems that project management these days comes with more confusing buzzwords than ever. But you can make managing your next project simple and straightforward with help from Microsoft Project For Dummies. 

This book unpacks Microsoft’s bestselling project management platform and walks you through every important feature, step-by-step, until you’re ready to take on virtually any project, no matter the size. From getting set up for the first time to creating tasks, managing resources and working with time management features, you’ll learn everything you need to know about managing a project in Microsoft’s iconic software. 

You’ll also find: 

  • Totally updated guidance that applies to both the desktop version and Microsoft’s new subscription-based Microsoft Project Online 
  • Helpful information on integrating Agile practices and techniques into your project 
  • “Golden rules” that keep a project on-track and on-time 
  • Ways to effectively manage your resources with Microsoft Project’s built-in functionality 

Managing a project, big or small, is no easy task. Luckily, Microsoft Project For Dummies can take a lot of the hassle out of your day-to-day life. Learn how to take advantage of this powerful software today! 

Introduction 1(4)
About This Book
1(1)
What's Not in This Book
2(1)
Foolish Assumptions
2(1)
Icons Used in This Book
3(1)
Beyond the Book
3(1)
Where to Go from Here
4(1)
PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH PROJECT
5(98)
Chapter 1 Project Management, MS Project, and You
7(16)
Project Management Evolution
8(1)
What's in a Name: Projects, Project Management, and Project Managers
9(1)
Project managers and Scrum masters
10(1)
The role of the project manager
11(1)
The role of the Scrum master
12(1)
Introducing Microsoft Project
13(1)
Getting to Know You
14(3)
Navigating Ribbon tabs and the Ribbon
17(3)
Displaying more tools
20(2)
Tell Me What You Want to Do
22(1)
Chapter 2 Starting the Project
23(18)
Creating the Project Charter
24(2)
Introducing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
26(1)
Organizing the Work
27(1)
Starting the Project
28(1)
Entering project information
29(2)
Entering the WBS
31(1)
Indenting and outdenting (a.k.a. promoting and demoting)
32(1)
Entering tasks
33(2)
Weighing manual scheduling versus automatic scheduling
35(2)
Inserting one project into another
37(1)
Inserting hyperlinks
38(3)
Chapter 3 Becoming a Task Master
41(14)
Creating Summary Tasks and Subtasks
41(2)
How many levels can you go?
43(1)
The project summary task
43(2)
Moving Tasks Up, Down, and All Around
45(1)
Moving tasks with the drag-and-drop method
45(1)
Moving tasks with the cut-and-paste method
46(1)
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Collapsing and Expanding the Task Outline
47(1)
Showing Up Again and Again: Recurring Tasks
48(2)
Setting Milestones
50(1)
Deleting Tasks and Using Inactive Tasks
51(1)
Making a Task Note
52(3)
Chapter 4 The Codependent Nature of Tasks
55(12)
How Tasks Become Dependent
56(1)
Dependent tasks: Which comes first?
56(1)
Dependency types
57(2)
Allowing for Murphy's Law: Lag and lead time
59(1)
Setting the Dependency Connection
60(1)
Adding the dependency link
60(2)
Words to the wise
62(2)
Understanding that things change: Deleting dependencies
64(3)
Chapter 5 Estimating Task Time
67(16)
You're in It for the Duration
68(1)
Tasks come in all flavors: Identifying task types
68(3)
Effort-driven tasks: 1 + 1 = 1/2
71(1)
Estimating Effort and Duration
72(1)
Estimating techniques
72(2)
Setting the task duration
74(2)
Controlling Timing with Constraints
76(1)
Understanding how constraints work
76(1)
Establishing constraints
76(2)
Setting a deadline
78(1)
Starting and Pausing Tasks
79(1)
Entering the task's start date
80(1)
Taking a break: Splitting tasks
81(2)
Chapter 6 Check Out This View!
83(20)
A Project with a View
83(1)
Navigating tabs and views
84(2)
Scrolling around
86(1)
Reaching a specific spot in your plan
87(1)
More Detail about Views
88(1)
Home base: Gantt Chart view
88(1)
Resourceful views: Resource Sheet and Team Planner
89(1)
Getting your timing down with the Timeline
90(1)
Going with the flow: Network Diagram view
91(1)
Calling up Calendar view
91(1)
Customizing Views
92(1)
Working with view panes
93(5)
Modifying Network Diagram view
98(2)
Resetting the view
100(3)
PART 2 MANAGING RESOURCES
103(56)
Chapter 7 Creating Resources
105(16)
Resources: People, Places, and Things
105(1)
Becoming Resource-Full
106(1)
Understanding resources
106(1)
Resource types: Work, material, and cost
107(1)
How resources affect task timing
108(1)
Estimating resource requirements
109(1)
The Birth of a Resource
110(1)
Creating one resource at a time
110(2)
Identifying resources before you know their names
112(1)
Many hands make light work
113(1)
Managing Resource Availability
113(1)
Estimating and setting availability
114(1)
When a resource comes and goes
115(1)
Sharing Resources
116(1)
Skimming from resource pools
116(3)
Importing resources from Outlook
119(2)
Chapter 8 Working with Calendars
121(16)
Mastering Base, Project, Resource, and Task Calendars
122(1)
Setting the base calendar for a project
122(1)
Understanding the four calendar types
122(1)
How calendars work
123(1)
How one calendar relates to another
123(1)
Scheduling with Calendar Options and Working Times
124(1)
Setting calendar options
125(1)
Setting exceptions to working times
126(2)
Working with Task Calendars and Resource Calendars
128(1)
Setting resource calendars
129(1)
Making a change to a resource's calendar
130(2)
Creating a Custom Calendar Template
132(2)
Sharing Copies of Calendars
134(3)
Chapter 9 Assigning Resources
137(12)
Finding the Right Resource
137(1)
Needed: One good resource willing to work
138(1)
Custom fields: It's a skill
139(1)
Making a Useful Assignation
140(1)
Determining material and cost-resource units
140(1)
Making assignments
141(4)
Shaping the contour that's right for you
145(2)
Benefitting from a Helpful Planner
147(2)
Chapter 10 Determining a Project's Cost
149(10)
How Do Costs Accrue?
150(1)
Adding up the costs
150(1)
When will these costs hit the bottom line?
151(1)
Specifying Cost Information in the Project
152(1)
You can't avoid fixed costs
153(1)
Entering hourly, overtime, and cost-per-use rates
154(2)
Assigning material resources
156(3)
PART 3 BEFORE YOU BASELINE
159(58)
Chapter 11 Fine-Tuning Your Plan
161(14)
Everything Filters to the Bottom Line
161(1)
Setting predesigned filters
162(1)
Putting AutoFilter to work
163(3)
Creating do-it-yourself filters
166(1)
Gathering Information in Groups
167(2)
Applying predefined groups
169(1)
Devising your own groups
169(2)
Figuring Out What's Driving the Project
171(1)
Inspecting tasks
172(1)
Handling task warnings, suggestions, and problems
173(2)
Chapter 12 Negotiating Project Constraints
175(16)
It's about Time
176(1)
Applying contingency reserve
176(1)
Completing a task in less time
177(3)
Getting What You Want for Less
180(1)
The Resource Recourse
181(1)
Checking resource availability
181(2)
Deleting or modifying a resource assignment
183(1)
Beating overallocations with quick-and-dirty rescheduling
184(1)
Finding help
184(1)
Leveling resources
185(3)
Rescheduling the Project
188(3)
Chapter 13 Making the Project Look Good
191(16)
Looking Good!
190(1)
Formatting the Gantt Chart
190(1)
Formatting taskbars
190(4)
Zeroing in on critical issues
194(1)
Restyling the Gantt chart
194(1)
Formatting Network Diagram Boxes
195(2)
Adjusting the Layout
197(2)
Modifying Gridlines
199(2)
Recognizing When a Picture Can Say It All
201(1)
Creating a Custom Text Field
202(5)
Chapter 14 It All Begins with a Baseline
207(10)
All about Baselines
208(1)
Saving a baseline
208(2)
Saving more than one baseline
210(1)
Clearing and resetting a baseline
211(1)
In the Interim
212(1)
Saving an interim plan
213(1)
Clearing and resetting an interim plan
214(3)
PART 4 STAYING ON TRACK
217(68)
Chapter 15 On the Right Track
219(16)
Tracking Views
220(1)
Setting the status date
220(1)
Tracking status with the Task sheet
221(1)
Using the Tracking table
221(1)
Tracking buttons
222(1)
Determining the percent complete
223(1)
Tracking status with Task Usage view
224(1)
Tracking status with Resource Usage view
224(1)
Uh-oh --- you're in overtime
225(1)
Specifying remaining durations for auto-scheduled tasks
226(1)
Entering fixed-cost updates
227(1)
Moving a Task
228(2)
Update Project: Sweeping Changes
230(2)
Tracking Materials
232(1)
Tracking More than One Project
233(2)
Chapter 16 Project Views: Observing Progress
235(14)
Seeing Where Tasks Stand
236(1)
Baseline versus actual progress
236(1)
Lines of progress
236(4)
Delving into the Detail
240(2)
Tracking Progress Using Earned Value Management
242(2)
Viewing the Earned Value table
244(1)
Earned value options
244(2)
Calculating behind the Scenes
246(1)
An abundance of critical paths
246(3)
Chapter 17 You're Behind --- Now What?
249(16)
Using Project with Risk and Issue Logs
249(1)
Documenting issues
250(1)
Printing interim plans and baselines
250(1)
What-lf Scenarios
251(1)
Sorting tasks
252(1)
Filtering
253(1)
Examining the critical path
254(1)
Using resource leveling (again)
255(1)
Determining which factors are driving the timing of a task
256(1)
How Adding People or Time Affects the Project
257(1)
Hurrying up and making modifications
257(1)
Throwing resources at the problem
258(1)
Shifting dependencies and task timing
259(2)
When All Else Fails
261(1)
Taking the time you need
261(1)
Finding ways to cut corners
262(3)
Chapter 18 Spreading the News: Reporting
265(20)
Generating Standard Reports
266(1)
What's available on the Report tab
266(1)
Dashboard reports
267(1)
Creating New Reports
268(2)
Gaining a new perspective on data with visual reports
270(1)
Creating a visual report
270(1)
Fine-Tuning a Report
271(1)
Dragging, dropping, and sizing
272(1)
Looking good!
273(1)
Spiffing Things Up
274(2)
Calling the Printer!
276(1)
Working with Page Setup
277(2)
Getting a preview
279(1)
Finalizing your print options
280(1)
Working on the Timeline
281(1)
Adding tasks to the Timeline
281(2)
Customizing the Timeline
283(1)
Copying the Timeline
283(2)
PART 5 WORKING WITH SPRINTS PROJECTS
285(32)
Chapter 19 Setting Up a Sprints Project
287(12)
Creating a Sprints Project
287(3)
Enjoying a Whole New View
290(1)
The Task Board and Task Board sheet
291(1)
The Sprint Planning Board and Sprint Planning sheet
292(1)
The Current Sprint Board and Current Sprint sheet
293(1)
The Backlog Board and the Backlog sheet
293(1)
Adding Information to Tasks
294(2)
Prioritizing Tasks
296(1)
Inserting a Sprints Project into a Plan-Driven Project
296(3)
Chapter 20 Tracking a Sprints Project
299(8)
Viewing Your Sprints Project Data
299(1)
Using filters to focus
300(1)
Using tables to arrange data
300(2)
Being a groupie
302(1)
Sorting tasks
302(1)
Creating Sprints Reports
303(4)
Chapter 21 Getting Better All the Time
307(10)
Reviewing the Project
308(1)
Learning from your mistakes
308(1)
Fine-tuning communication
309(1)
Comparing Versions of a Project
310(2)
Building on Success
312(1)
Creating a template
312(2)
Mastering the Organizer
314(3)
PART 6 THE PART OF TENS
317(16)
Chapter 22 Ten Golden Rules of Project Management
319(8)
Roll with It
319(1)
Put Your Ducks in a Row
320(1)
Expect the Unexpected
321(1)
Don't Put Off until Tomorrow
322(1)
Delegate, Delegate, Delegate
322(1)
Document It
323(1)
Keep the Team in the Loop
323(1)
Measure Success
324(1)
Maintain a Flexible Strategy
325(1)
Learn from Your Mistakes
325(2)
Chapter 23 Ten Cool Shortcuts in Project
327(6)
Task Information
327(1)
Resource Information
328(1)
Frequently Used Functions
329(1)
Subtasks
330(1)
Quick Selections
330(1)
Fill Down
331(1)
Navigation
331(1)
Hours to Years
331(1)
Timeline Shortcuts
331(1)
Quick Undo
332(1)
Glossary 333(8)
Index 341
Cynthia Snyder Dionisio is a project anagement consultant with a passion for curriculum design and online training. Author of Microsoft Project 2019 For Dummies, shes helped thousands of employees find success in their project management careers.