Ultimate Learning Guide to Microsoft Office Project 2007 (Epm Learning) - Softcover

Dale A. Howard; Gary Chefetz

 
9781934240007: Ultimate Learning Guide to Microsoft Office Project 2007 (Epm Learning)

Synopsis

Welcome to the Ultimate Learning Guide to Microsoft Office Project 2007. You selected the right book if you seek a complete learning experience and reference manual for managing projects using the Microsoft Office Project 2007 desktop application. Our goal in writing this book is to teach you how to use the software effectively.We take a systematic approach to the topical ordering in this book which follows the Project Management Institute (PMI) standard. The first 12 modules teach you foundational skills by following the project life cycle. In these modules, you learn how to define a new project, plan your project with tasks, resources, and assignments, analyze the Critical Path, baseline your project, enter actual progress, analyze variance, revise your project, report project progress, and then close out the project.The next 10 modules teach you advanced concepts for using Microsoft Office Project 2007. You learn in-depth knowledge about standard and custom Fields, Calendars, scheduling, costing, Critical Path analysis, managing risk, and exchanging project data with other applications. You learn how to locate and level overallocated resources, how to create and use a shared Resource Pool file and a master project, and how to record and write macros in VBA.Throughout each module, we provide a generous amount of Notes, Warnings, and Best Practices. Notes call your attention to important additional information about a subject. Warnings help you to avoid the most common problems experienced by others and Best Practices provide tips for using the tool based on our field experience.After reading this book, we believe that you will be much more effective using Microsoft Office Project 2007.

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Synopsis

These training methods reflect years of field experience helping individuals and companies to get the most from Microsoft Project. This book is loaded with best practices, practical software notes and hands-on lessons designed to advance you through learning to schedule and control projects using Microsoft Office Project 2007. It is the best book for self-paced or instructor-led learning. It allows download of all the lesson files from the official book website. The title also covers foundational topics and demystifies the scheduling engine for beginners. Take a deep dive into resource management and many other topics for advanced users. Complete training manual and reference manual combined.

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