Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore

Get up to speed on Microsoft Project 2013 and learn how to manage projects large and small. This crystal-clear book not only guides you step-by-step through Project 2013’s new features, it also gives you real-world guidance: how to prep a project before touching your PC, and which Project tools will keep you on target. With this Missing Manual, you’ll go from project manager to Project master.

The important stuff you need to know



Learn Project 2013 inside out. Get hands-on instructions for the Standard and Professional editions.

Start with a project management primer. Discover what it takes to handle a project successfully.

Build and refine your plan. Put together your team, schedule, and budget.

Achieve the results you want. Build realistic schedules with Project, and learn how to keep costs under control.

Track your progress. Measure your performance, make course corrections, and manage changes.

Create attractive reports. Communicate clearly to stakeholders and team members using charts, tables, and dashboards.

Use Project’s power tools. Customize Project’s features and views, and transfer info via the cloud, using Microsoft SkyDrive.

Genres: Management

806 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Bonnie is a zealous organizer of everything from software demos to gourmet meals with the occasional vacation to test the waters of spontaneity. Ironically, fate, not planning, turned this obsession into a career as a project manager. She earned a Project Management Professional certification (affectionately pronounced “pimp”) from the Project Management Institute. As a consultant, she manages projects for clients and wins accolades for her ability to herd cats. She has fun and makes new friends on every project, but mostly makes things happen.
She’s written 30 books including QuickBooks 2016: The Missing Manual (Intuit’s Official Guide to QuickBooks), Project 2013: The Missing Manual, and Fresh Squeezed, a funny thriller about hitmen and stupid criminals. Bonnie is an engineer, so she’s fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. She tries to redeem herself by using her sick sense of humor to transform these drool-inducing subjects into entertaining reading.
She has a mostly unused Bachelor of Science in Architecture from MIT and an occasionally useful Master of Science in Structural Engineering from Columbia University. Don’t hold this against her. She’s quite nice, actually.

Reviews

[loafingcactus · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is the bomb! After using MS Project for quite a few years and taking an MBA class that was basically a walk through of MS Project, I didn't think I was missing much. Boy was I wrong!

The author not only goes over MS Project, but also where you might want to use Excel or some other solution to solve a particular project management problem. It is soup to nuts everything you need to get most out of MS Project.

It only got three stars because it's not War and Peace, nothing against the book, which I really have zero hesitation in recommending for its purpose! I grade on a curve and computer manuals, missing or otherwise, are never going to get to the top of the curve.

[Ivo Stoykov · Rating 2 out of 5]

Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual shows MS Project features in a consecutive manner, but for me more than 800 pages book comes a little bit overdone. Also for me samples were somehow scattered and I had to leaf back and forth to keep the thread. Anyway the book is in general useful.