Название: Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2019
Автор: Gus Cicala
Издательство: Project Assistants, Inc.
Год: 2019
Страниц: 533
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 80.77 MB

Project Management Using Microsoft Project is an all-in-one training guide, textbook, and reference that covers each product of the Microsoft Project 2019 suite.Many training guides on technology are primarily manuals on features and functions of the software. The goal of this book is to show why those features and functions are important from a project management standpoint (based on PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge), and then demonstrate how to effectively leverage that value through the use of Microsoft Project 2019.

This is the third edition of a text that has been well-received by the project management community across 25 different countries since the release of Project 2013. The information in this book was selected based on Project Assistants’ 25 years of project management consulting, Microsoft Project training, and managing real-world projects with Microsoft Project.

This text is carefully designed to serve as a training guide, textbook, and/or reference guide. Included with the book are hands-on exercises with step-by-step illustrations built from actual Microsoft Project files that can be downloaded from our training webpage. There is a robust index as well as intuitively organized and clearly delineated sections, chapters, and sub-sections for easy reference. Each chapter has a learning-oriented structure with objectives at the beginning and 25-50 questions at the end that reinforce those points of emphasis. We also provide all answer keys and supporting PowerPoint slides for academic instructors upon request.

Many training guides on technology are primarily manuals on features and functions of the software. The goal of this book is to show why those features and functions are important from a project management theory standpoint, and then demonstrate how to effectively leverage that value. When used cover-to-cover, this text serves as a comprehensive guide to running a project from initiation to closeout with guides along the way for how to use Microsoft Project to facilitate that. This guide can also be used as preparatory material for Microsoft Exam 74-343.

The information in this book was selected based on our 20+ years of project management and Microsoft Project consulting experience. In selecting the features and functions to be covered, we selected a middle-of-the-road approach that deliberately glosses over simple topics that are assumed to be known by the reader. A more difficult decision was faced when determining which advanced features (such as earned value management) to cover in a book of this nature. The features chosen for coverage in this book represent the interests of most organizations with which we have interacted.