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| Название | Learning Microsoft Project 2019: streamline project, resource, and schedule management with Microsoft's project management software | 
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| Авторы | Shirodkar Srikanth | 
| Коллекция | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция | 
| Тематика | Project management — Computer programs. ; EBSCO eBooks | 
| Тип документа | Другой | 
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| Язык | Английский | 
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| Дата создания записи | 13.11.2020 | 
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- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedicated
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Section 1: The Iron Triangle – a Quick Primer for Project Management
- Chapter 1: Project Management – the Essential Primer- Projects – what is special about them?- Project – the definition
- Project management
- The project manager
 
- Project management knowledge- Choose your fount of knowledge
- The project life cycle
- Project management processes
 
- The challenges and benefits of project management- The Iron Triangle (Triple Constraint of Project Management)
- The elephant in the room (failure rates)
- Winning – but at what cost (burnout rates)?
 
- What is Microsoft Project really?- Gantt charts
- When not to use MS Project
 
- How this book is structured- Mapping to process groups and the project life cycle
- Truly domain agnostic
- How to read the book (end to end reading versus pinpoint references)
 
- Summary
 
- Projects – what is special about them?
- Section 2: Project Initiation with Microsoft Project
- Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Microsoft Project- Technical requirements
- Understanding the UI basics of MS Project- Backstage
 
- Building your first simple project
- Understanding Tasks - Task modes: Automatic or Manual
- Backstage: contextual changes
- Linking and dependencies between tasks
 
- Scheduling a project- Resourcing your tasks
- Allocating tasks to resources
 
- Taking a closer look at views- Tables
- Charts, diagrams, timelines, and graphs
- Which view should we use?
- Reports
 
- Practice assignment
- Summary
 
- Chapter 3: Initiating projects with Microsoft Project- Initiating projects - What the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) says
- Key outcomes of the initiating stage
- Risk over the project life cycle
 
- Project for this chapter – digital marketing campaign
- Scheduling with MS Project – a deeper understanding- Project Information and Project Options
- Tasks
- Linking and dependency
- Resources
 
- Revisiting the UI- Timeline view
- Gantt chart UI
- Quick Access Toolbar
- The Indicators column
- Options and configurations
 
- Assignment - Case study
 
- Summary
 
- Initiating projects 
- Chapter 4: Underlying Concepts of Microsoft Project- Demystifying the Basic Work Formula
- An example Project for this chapter – creating online departmental manuals- Case 1 – Change of duration
- Case 2 – Adding additional resources
- Case 3 – Increasing Units
- Deeper scheduling
 
- Exploring task types- Understanding the concept of Fixed Units
- Fixed duration
- Fixed work
- Are your tasks effort-driven or not?
- The impact of using task types
 
- Underlying algorithms – How project scheduling works
- Understanding Project Calendars- Setting the Project Start Date
- Creating your new calendar
- Customizing your new calendar
- Setting the Project Calendar
- How calendars really work in Project
 
- Summary
- Assignment
 
- Chapter 5: Resource Management with Microsoft Project- Basic resource management techniques 
with Project- Creating resources
- Allocating resources
- Assigning resources
- Updating resources
- The Resource Pool feature
 
- Enterprise-level resourcing concepts
- Revisiting overallocations
- Basic concepts of fine-tuning resource assignments
- Best practices of resource management
- Summary
 
- Basic resource management techniques 
with Project
- Section 3: Project Planning Like a Pro!
- Chapter 6: Work Breakdown Structure – the Single Critical Factor- The planning phase in project management
- Delving into WBS - The importance of the WBS
- What is not included in the WBS
- What does a WBS look like?
 
- Standard techniques for creating a WBS- Some confusing aspects of WBS
- The drawbacks of a WBS
 
- Creating a robust WBS using 10 simple rules
- Exploring the WBS feature in Microsoft Project
- Going from a WBS to tasks
- Summary
 
- Chapter 7: Tasks – under the Microscope- The project for this chapter- Importing tasks from Excel into Project
 
- Organizing tasks to create a schedule- Technique 1 – Organizing a schedule using Summary Tasks
- Technique 2 – Organizing a schedule by chronological sorting
- Technique 3 – Organizing a schedule by grouping resources
- Creating Summary Tasks from indentation
 
- Special tasks and task features- Milestones
- Inactivating tasks
- Blank rows
- Recurring tasks
- A deeper understanding of Summary Tasks
 
- Summary
 
- The project for this chapter
- Chapter 8: Mastering Link Dependency and Constraints- Scheduling – a quick refresher
- Task dependencies and constraints- Task relationships
- Four types of task dependencies
- Understanding constraints
- Selecting the correct task dependency
 
- Releasing the latest application version
- Working with task dependencies- Creating special dependencies
 
- Working with date constraints - Types of date constraints
 
- A few important best practices
- Summary
 
- Chapter 9: Extended Customization – Task and Gantt Formatting- Fundamentals of formatting a view- Formatting Text Styles
- Gridlines
- Layout
- Adding a new customized column
- Achieving an aesthetic design
 
- Formatting bar styles- Formatting a single, specific taskbar (local-level formatting)
- Formatting an entire category of taskbars
- Formatting an entire Gantt chart
 
- Diagnostic formatting- Task Path
- Critical Tasks (critical path)
 
- Summary
 
- Fundamentals of formatting a view
- Section 4: Project Execution – the Real Deal
- Chapter 10: Executing Agile Projects with MS Project- Technical requirements
- A brief introduction to Agile methodologies- The Agile Manifesto
- Deciding between Agile and Waterfall
- Deciding whether Agile is suited to your project
- When you should not use Agile
 
- A project on a simple e-commerce website - Task list for the project
 
- Agile frameworks- Kanban and MS Project
- Scrum and MS Project
 
- Summary
 
- Chapter 11: Overallocation – the Bane of Project Managers- Introducing overallocation- Simulating an overallocation
- Why does overallocation exist?
- Avoiding overallocation with the Assign Resource feature
- Diagnosing overallocation
- Resolving overallocation
 
- Summary
 
- Introducing overallocation
- Chapter 12: Baselines – Techniques and 
Best Practices- A deeper understanding of baselines- The need for baselines
 
- Project for this chapter
- Understanding the Variance table
- Creating a new baseline- A flowchart for controlling changes with baselines
- Variance table revisited
- Analyzing baselines
- Comparing multiple baselines
- Understanding interim plans
 
- Best practices when using baselines
- Maintaining baselines- Updating a baseline
- Deleting (clearing) a baseline
 
- Summary
 
- A deeper understanding of baselines
- Chapter 13: Project Tracking Techniques- A deeper understanding of project tracking - Considerations for project tracking
 
- Project tracking flowchart
- Project for this chapter- Relevance of the status date
 
- Simple techniques for project tracking- Context menu update technique
- Preset percentage complete technique
- The Mark on Track technique
 
- Update Project technique
- Advanced techniques for project tracking- Advanced scheduling options
- Variable percentage complete technique
- Percentage complete and remaining duration technique
- Actuals tracking technique
- Using the Tracking Gantt Chart view
- Assignment tracking
 
- Best practices for project tracking
- Summary
 
- A deeper understanding of project tracking 
- Section 5: Monitoring and Control with Microsoft Project
- Chapter 14: Views, Tables, and Customization- Gaining an advanced understanding of views- Types of view
- Display formats used in views
 
- Understanding which view to use and when- Views to manage task data
- Views to manage resource data
- Views to manage assignment data
 
- Advanced features of views- Understanding tables
- Details view (also known as the split-window view)
- Sorting of schedule data
- Filtering and highlighting information
- Grouping project information
 
- Creating custom views- Creating a new view from a current view
- Creating a new view from scratch
 
- Summary
 
- Gaining an advanced understanding of views
- Chapter 15: Resource and Cost Management- A deeper understanding of resources and costs- The Work resource type
- The Material resource type
- The Cost resource type
 
- Basics of costing in Project- Costing versus pricing
- Costing is based on resourcing
- Project for this chapter
- Creating a Project budget
 
- Costing of work resources- Standard rate of pay
- Variable rate of pay
 
- Costing of material resources- Variable costs
- Fixed costs
 
- Costing of cost resources- Fixed costs for resource usage
- Fixed costs for task usage
 
- Analyzing costing using different views- Project-level cost analysis views
- Assignment-level cost analysis view
- Task-level cost analysis view
- Resource-level cost analysis view
- Baseline cost comparison analysis
 
- Summary
 
- A deeper understanding of resources and costs
- Chapter 16: Critical Path Monitoring and Advanced Techniques- A deeper understanding of the critical path- What is slack?
- What is a critical task?
- What is the critical path?
- What is CPM?
 
- Techniques to shorten the project- Shortening the critical path (crashing the project)
- Increasing parallel paths (fast-tracking the project)
- Resource reallocation
 
- Applying lag and lead time
- Advanced overallocation resolution techniques- The resource leveling technique
- The work contour technique
 
- Resolving scheduling problems
- Summary
 
- A deeper understanding of the critical path
- Chapter 17: Project Reports 101- Introduction to Project's reporting framework - Salient features of Project reports
 
- Reporting architecture in Project- View-Table reports
- Graphical prebuilt reports
- Limitations of graphical reports
- Visual (OLAP) reports
 
- Best practices for status reporting
- Summary
 
- Introduction to Project's reporting framework 
- Section 6: Project Closure with Microsoft Project
- Chapter 18: Reviewing Projects and Creating Templates for Success- Introduction to the project closing phase
- Common error patterns in Project- Sequencing error patterns
- Scheduling error patterns
 
- Understanding the project closure review- Project comparison report tool
- Baseline comparison tool
 
- Templates for success- Templates in Project
- Benefits of templates
 
- Creating a new template for your organization
- Summary
 
- Chapter 19: Advanced Custom Reports and Templates - Introduction to customized reports
- Understanding Project's reporting architecture- Understanding dynamic reports
 
- Modifying an existing report
- Creating your own custom report- A new report – resource cost balancing table report
- A new report – resource work variance bar graph report (plus costs too!)
- Earned Value Management (EVM) report
 
- Understanding the global template- What is stored in the global template?
- Copying into and from the global template
 
- Summary
 
- Chapter 20: Book Conclusion and Next Steps- The complete Project roadmap - Initiating with Project
- Planning with Project
- Executing with Project
- Monitoring and controlling with Project
- Closing with Project
 
- Next steps
- A final summary
 
- The complete Project roadmap 
- Appendix A: Using This Book as a Textbook
- Appendix B: Available Fields Reference- Task fields – a small curated subset- Resource fields – a small curated subset
- Assignment fields – a small curated subset
 
 
- Task fields – a small curated subset
- Appendix C: Keyboard Shortcuts
- Appendix D: Glossary
- Other Books You May Enjoy
- Index
