Microsoft Project for Dummies - Cynthia Snyder Dionisio

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Introduction 1

About This Book 1

What's Not in This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond the Book 3

Where to Go from Here 4

Part 1: Getting Started with Project 5

Chapter 1: Project Management, MS Project, and You 7

Project Management Evolution 8

What's in a Name: Projects, Project Management, and Project Managers 9

Project managers and Scrum masters 10

The role of the project manager 11

The role of the Scrum master 12

Introducing Microsoft Project 13

Getting to Know You 14

Navigating Ribbon tabs and the Ribbon 17

Displaying more tools 20

Tell Me What You Want to Do 22

Chapter 2: Starting the Project 23

Creating the Project Charter 24

Introducing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 26

Organizing the Work 27

Starting the Project 28

Entering project information 29

Entering the WBS 31

Indenting and outdenting (a.k.a promoting and demoting) 32

Entering tasks 33

Weighing manual scheduling versus automatic scheduling 35

Inserting one project into another 37

Inserting hyperlinks 38

Chapter 3: Becoming a Task Master 41

Creating Summary Tasks and Subtasks 41

How many levels can you go? 43

The project summary task 43

Moving Tasks Up, Down, and All Around 45

Moving tasks with the drag-and-drop method 45

Moving tasks with the cut-and-paste method 46

Now You See It, Now You Don't: Collapsing and Expanding the Task Outline 47

Showing Up Again and Again: Recurring Tasks 48

Setting Milestones 50

Deleting Tasks and Using Inactive Tasks 51

Making a Task Note 52

Chapter 4: The Codependent Nature of Tasks 55

How Tasks Become Dependent 56

Dependent tasks: Which comes first? 56

Dependency types 57

Allowing for Murphy's Law: Lag and lead time 59

Setting the Dependency Connection 60

Adding the dependency link 60

Words to the wise 62

Understanding that things change: Deleting dependencies 64

Chapter 5: Estimating Task Time 67

You're in It for the Duration 68

Tasks come in all flavors: Identifying task types 68

Effort-driven tasks: 1 + 1 = ? 71

Estimating Effort and Duration 72

Estimating techniques 72

Setting the task duration 74

Controlling Timing with Constraints 76

Understanding how constraints work 76

Establishing constraints 76

Setting a deadline 78

Starting and Pausing Tasks 79

Entering the task's start date 80

Taking a break: Splitting tasks 81

Chapter 6: Check Out This View! 83

A Project with a View 83

Navigating tabs and views 84

Scrolling around 86

Reaching a specific spot in your plan 87

More Detail about Views 88

Home base: Gantt Chart view 88

Resourceful views: Resource Sheet and Team Planner 89

Getting your timing down with the Timeline 90

Going with the flow: Network Diagram view 91

Calling up Calendar view 91

Customizing Views 92

Working with view panes 93

Modifying Network Diagram view 98

Resetting the view 100

Part 2: Managing Resources 103

Chapter 7: Creating Resources 105

Resources: People, Places, and Things 105

Becoming Resource-Full 106

Understanding resources 106

Resource types: Work, material, and cost 107

How resources affect task timing 108

Estimating resource ...

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Transform your next project with Microsoft^?

Managing projects is anything but easy. But it's far from impossible, especially with help from Microsoft Project For Dummies. This easy-to-follow book walks you through every step of the way to mastering the popular Microsoft Project Online software. From initial setup to connecting your project software to other apps, setting up your team, and the final project wrap-up, you'll be powering through even the most complex project in no time at all. This is one reference book that will never leave your desk.

Inside...

• Understand project management
• Work with waterfall projects
• Manage your resources
• Organize your calendars
• Create a project budget
• Form a project timeline
• Keep your project on track
• Work with Agile projects