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Cicala, Jr.

The Project Managers Guide to Microsoft Project 2019: Covers Standard, Professional, Server, Web Application, and Office 365 Versions

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4842-5634-3
Verlag: APRESS
Erscheinungstermin: 10.06.2020
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Learn Microsoft Project 2019 from the project manager’s perspective.

This guide is an all-in-one training resource and reference that covers all versions found in the Microsoft Project 2019 suite. It is not a “how-to” manual covering the features and functions of the software, but is designed to explain and demonstrate why those features and functions are important to you as a project manager, allowing you to maximize the value of Microsoft Project 2019.

Each aspect of project-manager-specific coverage was selectively compiled by author and Microsoft Project expert Cicala over more than two decades of consulting, project management, Microsoft Project training, and managing real-world projects with Microsoft Project. Readers will appreciate the robust index and intuitively organized and learning-oriented chapters, and sub-sections for quick reference and problem solving. “Try it” exercises at the close of every chapter help ensure understanding of the content.


What You Will Learn

  • Understand key components to the Microsoft Project 2019 solution
  • Reinforce learning via hands-on exercises with step-by-step illustrations
  • Build a plan and work breakdown structure, and manage resources and assignments
  • Utilize enterprise project management for: creating a project, monitoring, controlling, and tracking
  • Export and communicate project information to an external audience


Who This Book Is For
Project managers with limited time and resources who need to maximize their efficiency with Microsoft Project

Answer keys and supporting PowerPoint slides are available for academic instructors upon request.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781484256343
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4842-5634-3
  • Verlag: APRESS
  • Erscheinungstermin: 10.06.2020
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
  • Produktform: Gebunden, Book
  • Seiten: 430
  • Format (B x H): 178 x 254 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Front Matter

Introduction

1.1 Using This Guide

1.2 High-Level Overview of Microsoft Project 2019

Understanding Project Management Concepts

2.1 What is Project Management?  21

2.2 The Importance of Methodology to Project Management

2.3 Project Phases and the Project Lifecycle  

2.4 Project Stakeholders and Organizational Influences

2.5 Project Processes

Introduction to Microsoft Project 2019

3.1 How Microsoft Project 2019 Handles Data

3.2 The Ribbon in Microsoft Project 2019

3.3 Navigating in Microsoft Project 2019 Views

3.4 Help Options in Microsoft Project 2019

3.5 Finding the Right Information  

PROJECT DEFINITION

Understanding Project Definition

4.1 Defining Your Project and Understanding the Definition Process

4.2 Initiating a Project

4.3 Planning the Scope of a Project

4.4 Scope Definition

4.5 Scope Verification

Defining Your Project Using Microsoft Project 2019

5.1 Creating a New Project

5.2 Providing Project Information  

5.3 Setting File Properties

5.4 Setting Local Calendar Information

5.5 Project Definition Review Exercise  

PROJECT TASK PLANNING

Developing a Work Breakdown Structure

6.1 Creating a Project Work Plan

6.2 Determining Logical Relationships of Tasks in Your WBS

6.3 Resource Planning and Acquisition

6.4 Team Development

6.5 Cost Estimating and Budgeting

Building a Work Breakdown Structure with Microsoft Project 2019  

7.1 Building the Work Breakdown Structure

7.2 Modifying and Editing the WBS

7.3 Creating Task Dependencies

7.4 Task Types and Scheduling

7.5 Estimating Task Size

7.6 Manual Task Scheduling

7.7 Task Planning Review Exercise

 

Managing Project Resources and Assignments

8.1 Defining Project Resource Types with Microsoft Project 2019

8.2 Assigning Resources to Tasks

8.3 Cost Planning with Microsoft Project  

8.4 Constraints

8.5 Resource and Assignment Review Exercise

Using Microsoft Project 2019 to Optimize the Plan

9.1 Identifying the Critical Path

9.2 Adding Recurring Tasks and Using Task Calendars

9.3 Managing Resource Workloads and Resolving Resource Over-allocations  

9.4 Setting the Project Baseline

9.5 Communicating the Project Plan

9.6 Optimizing the Plan Review Exercise  

ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT  

Creating Enterprise Projects

10.1 How Microsoft Project 2019 Communicates with Project Server 2019 and Project Online

10.2 Publishing a Project to Microsoft Project Server 2019

10.3 Enterprise Resource Management

10.4 Working with Multiple Projects: Inter-Project Dependencies

10.5 Program Management

Monitoring and Controlling – The Project Manager’s Functions

11.1 Project Execution – Background

11.2 Tracking with Microsoft Project 2019

11.3 Entering Actual Progress Information  

Using Project Web Application for Tracking  

12.1 Publishing Project Assignments to Team Members

12.2 The Project Web App Home Page

12.3 Tracking Progress Using Project Web App   

Other Features in Project Web Application  

13.1 Organizing and Viewing Information in Project Web Application

13.2 Web-based Projects

13.3 Team Builder  

13.4 Resource Engagements

13.5 Risks, Issues, Deliverables, and Documents

13.6 Project Details Page

Variance Analysis, Plan Revision, and Project Communication

14.1 Variance Analysis  

14.2 Plan Revision and Scope Management

14.3 Project Communication Principles

Presenting Project Information with Microsoft Project 2019

15.1 Communication Options

15.2 Using Tables, Filters, Views, and Groups in Microsoft Project 2019  

15.3 Defining and Using Custom Fields

15.4 Communicating Project Information  

15.5 Exporting Project Information