Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Project 2003
©2004 |Que Publishing | Out of print
Tim Pyron
©2004 |Que Publishing | Out of print
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Appropriate for any course in project management utilizing Microsoft Project 2003.
More than any other book, Special Edition Using Microsoft Project 2003 reflects the realities of project management as students will encounter it in todays complex and rapidly changing organizations. This book is a definitive guide to effective project management with both versions of Microsoft Project 2003: Microsoft Office Project Standard and Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) for multiple-project collaboration across entire organizations. It begins with a clear, practical overview of the discipline of project management that explains exactly how Microsoft Project 2003 can be used to manage any project more effectively. Its comprehensive, step-by-step feature coverage is organized to follow the project cycle of starting, developing, and implementing a plan; defining resources; scheduling; resolving conflicts; tracking and analyzing progress; adjusting to changes and unforeseen events; reporting in print and on the Web; managing project portfolios; and much more. Throughout, students will discover hundreds of tips, notes, cautions, and troubleshooting solutions drawn from the unparalleled experience of this book's world-class authoring team—including over a dozen expert Microsoft Project consultants, and led by Tim Pyron, editor of one of the worlds leading publications for Project users. An accompanying CD-ROM contains additional project management tools.
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Covers the skills students will need to succeed with Microsoft Project regardless of their role or responsibilities.
Helps students make the most of the Web and intranets in managing even the most complex and far-flung projects.
Gives students additional practical resources for mastering project management with Project 2003.
Helps students understand Microsoft Project 2003 in the context of actual project management environments.
Enables students to rapidly master all the Microsoft Project 2003 skills they will need.
Gives students the context they need to succeed with project management in general, and Microsoft Project 2003 in particular.
Shows students how to become effective with Microsoft Project 2003 far more quickly.
Shows students how to avoid and resolve the most common problems they will face in working with Microsoft Project 2003.
Gives students essential hands-on practice for mastering Microsoft Project 2003 more rapidly and understanding it at a deeper level.
Gives students confidence that they are receiving information that is thorough, accurate, clear, and useful—and reflects the challenges Microsoft Project 2003 users actually face.
Covers the skills students will need to succeed with Microsoft Project regardless of their role or responsibilities.
Helps students make the most of the Web and intranets in managing even the most complex and far-flung projects.
Gives students additional practical resources for mastering project management with Project 2003.
Introduction
I. GETTING STARTED WITH MICROSOFT PROJECT.
II. SCHEDULING TASKS.
III. ASSIGNING RESOURCES AND COSTS.
IV. REVIEWING AND DISTRIBUTING THE PROJECT.
V. TRACKING AND ANALYZING PROGRESS.
VI. COORDINATING PROJECTS AND SHARING DATA.
VII. USING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DISPLAY.
VIII. USING PROJECT SERVER AND PROJECT PROFESSIONAL.
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Timothy W. Pyron, Ph.D., is an independent consultant and trainer for Microsoft Project users. His first book was Que's Using Microsoft Project 3.0 (1991), and he has revised and expanded the book for each release of Project since then. He also authored Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Project 98 in 24 Hours and Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Project 2000 in 24 Hours. His books have sold more than a quarter-million copiesot including all the European and Asian translations. Earlier in his career, Tim was an economics professor and a professional classical musician. Tim is the lead author for this book, and in addition to his own assignments (primarily the scheduling engine chapters, tracking, and earned value analysis), he also collaborated with the other authors on the chapters they wrote or revised.
Jonathan Brandon is an engagement manager at Project Assistants, Inc., a Premier Microsoft Project Partner and Solution Provider specializing in implementation services, integration, training, and custom software development for Microsoft Project. He has extensive project management experience and is a Rational Certified Consultant trained in requirements management, project management, and object-oriented analysis and design. Jonathan can be reached at jbrandon@projectassistants.com.
Kelvin Kirby has more than 24 years experience as a project management consultant and trainer. His career affiliations include several blue-chip companies, such as Land Rover Ltd., BL Technology Ltd., The Rover Group, Jaguar Cars PLC, Amazon Computers Ltd. (now Computacenter PLC), and ECS. An M.B.A. graduate, Kelvin also has an M.Sc. in information systems and a B.Sc. in engineering. Kelvin has won the PM Times award for Project Management Excellence for the fourth year running (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) and was recently awarded the PM Foundation's highest honor as Consultant of the Year and the PM Foundation's Fellowship Award. In 1990, Kelvin founded his own Microsoft Project consultancy company, Technology Associates International, which is now a global organization with offices around the world and clients in more than 38 countries. Technology Associates is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and one of only nine Microsoft Project Enterprise Premier Solution Providers worldwide. Kelvin was the world's first ever Microsoft Project MVP (Most Valued Professional). He is also the principal author of the recently launched (Dec 2003) ITC2 qualification in Project Management (ECPMP). Once described as the "Red Adair" of Microsoft Project, you can contact Kelvin on +44 (0)1789 292150 or via email at kkirby@techassoc.com.
Milestone Consulting Group provides best of breed enterprise project management (EPM) solutions based solely on the Microsoft solution for EPM. Milestone focuses on developing a complete EPM package by implementing project management best practices, defining a solution architecture, configuring and customizing the EPM environment, educating on the custom EPM environment, and integrating with other enterprise applications. Milestone's solutions help companies reduce project lifecycle time, project cost, and reuse project team best practices. Milestone is actively involved in PMI and MPUG, and pioneered the Microsoft Project Lunch and Learn series. Milestone's clients include Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 clients as well as progressive small and medium-sized businesses. More information may be obtained about Milestone by email at Sales@MilestoneConsultingGroup.com. Milestone has five contributing authors who helped in the revision of Que's Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Project 2003: Genea Mallow-Jensen, PMP, senior consultant (geneam@MilestoneConsultingGroup.com) David P. Fischer, co-founder, president, and CEO (davef@MilestoneConsultingGroup.com) Brandon Thornton, co-founder and principal consultant (brandont@MilestonConsultingGroup.com) Richard Courtney, principal consultant and director of medium enterprise consulting (richardc@MilestoneConsultingGroup.com) Daniel T. Renier, principal consultant and director of education (drenier@MilestoneConsultingGroup.com)
Fred Oettle, Ph.D., is the director of project management training for Project Assistants, Inc. Fred is well known for consulting and software development in project management, providing project management infrastructures built around Microsoft Project and Project Central. Fred has also worked as a radio/TV announcer and as a newspaper editor. Fred founded his own general management consulting and training company, and has conducted hundreds of seminars for government and private-sector organizations. Fred can be contacted at foettle@projectassistants.com.
QuantumPM, LLC is a Colorado-based consulting firm specializing in high-quality project management services to the business and information technology sectors of project-oriented firms. The company's focus is improvement of organizational bottom lines through effective project and portfolio management. QPM effects change in the field through alliances with strategic partners such as the Project Management Institute and Microsoft, targeting a balance of philosophy and tools. QuantumPM is a Microsoft Premier Project Partner and a Registered Education Provider for the Project Management Institute. These partnerships allow QuantumPM to provide state-of-the-art products and services to its customers. Additionally, QuantumPM's classes provide students with PMI professional development units (PDUs), which are required to obtain/maintain PMI's Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. For more information visit http://www.QuantumPM.com. QuantumPM has four contributing authors who helped in the revision of Que's Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Project 2003: Rose Blackburn, PMP, founding partner of QuantumPM, LLC (rmblackburn@quantumpm.com) Cristian Filip, PMP, senior project manager (cfilip@quantumpm.com) Patty Jansen, PMP, project manager (pjansen@quantumpm.com) Russ Young, senior project manager (russ.young@quantumpm.com)
Joël Séguin, PMP, is a project management information systems (PMIS) consultant. Joël started his own consulting firm, GO Project Management, Inc. (go-project.com), a Microsoft Partner, and works as a senior system integrator and business analyst for many customers from a wide variety of industries, from fashion to bulk transportation and construction and pharmaceuticals. He has more than six years of experience teaching Microsoft Office Project and project management, and is currently providing training for a few project management schools both in English and French: International Institute for Learning and Institut de Formation en Gestion de Projets. He provides free advice on newsgroups and received a Microsoft MVP award for his efforts in making Microsoft Office Project an easy system to use. Joël collaborates with the Microsoft Office Project product development team on beta testing and customer requirements for the next versions and the documentation.
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