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Forecast Scheduling with Microsoft Project 2010
Forecast Scheduling shows you how you can forecast your project with just the schedule even without advanced techniques like Earned Value. It builds on the author's principle of Dynamic Scheduling that demonstrates how to minimize the effort spent on a schedule. In this book, the author takes scheduling to the next level by showing you how to create a model of the project to forecast it dynamically. The highlights of this approach
- Use deadline dates initially and the baseline schedule to capture promises made. Too many schedulers use the schedule itself to reflect their promises and then want to keep their schedule static. In our approach, the schedule will be a dynamic model a great tool to manage the project.
- Update your schedule with revised estimates. Many project managers only enter actual progress. In order to forecast, you need to capture revised forecasts from your team members and schedule them in the future. Once team members have started working on a task, they know much better how long the remainder will take.
Key
- Aligned with all latest Standards from PMI
- Tips that result in more accurate forecasts from your schedule
- Checklist and corresponding filters to assure the quality of your schedule
- Real-world examples and reality-tested guidelines
- Solid step-by-step procedures that lead to success
- Clear screen shots, annotations, illustrations and cartoons
- Insightful stories, hands-on exercises, solutions and review questions
- Use deadline dates initially and the baseline schedule to capture promises made. Too many schedulers use the schedule itself to reflect their promises and then want to keep their schedule static. In our approach, the schedule will be a dynamic model a great tool to manage the project.
- Update your schedule with revised estimates. Many project managers only enter actual progress. In order to forecast, you need to capture revised forecasts from your team members and schedule them in the future. Once team members have started working on a task, they know much better how long the remainder will take.
Key
- Aligned with all latest Standards from PMI
- Tips that result in more accurate forecasts from your schedule
- Checklist and corresponding filters to assure the quality of your schedule
- Real-world examples and reality-tested guidelines
- Solid step-by-step procedures that lead to success
- Clear screen shots, annotations, illustrations and cartoons
- Insightful stories, hands-on exercises, solutions and review questions
800 pages, Perfect Paperback
Published December 11, 2010
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July 13, 2017
A huge book on efficiently using Microsoft Project to build schedules for project management. It's a technical manual, and despite the author's sense of humor and cartoons, it is still a pretty dry read. Wouldn't have read it if it weren't for my job. So glad to be done with it.
January 16, 2014
Fantastic book! It has all you need with technical ms project to scheduling processes and best practices. I love the tid bits of information like the 1 - 10 % rule along with the humor and what not to do. This was very insightful and I will be definitely be practicing this in my workplace. Well written!
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