Microsoft Project 2013 Step By Step

by Carl Chatfield, Timothy Johnson

About the Book: Microsoft Project 2013 Step by Step The smart way to learn Microsoft Project 2013-one step at a time! Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to manage the complete project life cycle with Project 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them ? Create and fine-tune your project plan ? Schedule tasks, set milestones, and assign resources ? Use Gantt charts to visualize project schedules ? Track progress and troubleshoot variances ? Communicate status with custom reports ? Learn project-management best practices Content Table of Contents Introduction PART 1 Introduction to Microsoft Project 1 Microsoft Project, project management and you 2 A guided tour of Project PART 2 Simple Scheduling Basics Starting a new plan 4 Building a task list 5 Setting up resources 6 Assigning resources to tasks 7 Formatting and sharing your plan 8 Tracking progress PART 3 Advanced Scheduling Techniques 9 Advanced task scheduling 10 Fine-tuning task details 11 Fine-tuning resource and assignment details 12 Fine-tuning the Project plan 13 Organizing project details 14 Tracking progress on tasks and assignments 15 Viewing and reporting project status 16 Getting your project back on track PART 4 In-Depth and Special Subjects 17 Applying advanced formatting and printing 18 Advanced report formatting 19 Customizing project 20 Sharing information with other programs 21 Consolidating projects and resources Appendices A A short course in project management B Developing your project-management skills C Collaborating: Project, SharePoint, and PWA D Using this book in a classroom Glossary Index About the authors How to download your ebook Survey page About the Author: Chatfield Carl Carl Chatfield Carl is a content project manager at Microsoft. In this role, Carl develops technical product documentation and Web content for a variety of products and services. Carl also teaches software user a

Genres: Business, Nonfiction

576 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2013

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

For the most part the exercises in this book were very helpful but I think I would have gotten more out of it if I had to develop the entire project starting in chapter 1 rather than opening completed projects to make a few changes in each chapter.

[Jon Webber · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is just the Next version, just like last version mostly

[Derek · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book does justice to its title. If you own a copy of Microsoft project and are interested in learning how to use it, or have an interest in project management, this book turns an otherwise complicated and overwhelming looking program into something manageable and easy to understand.

It's approach to providing an overview, and then drilling down to the details doesn't leave any unanswered questions. I can't speak to whether this book is test ready for Exam 74-343, but it certainly is a good start.

[Ivo Stoykov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Microsoft Project 2013 Step by Step is just what it states - step by step. Following a fictitious project helps reader to understand the logic and mechanisms behind the Project idea. Contents is clear, with lots of illustrations, easy to follow. Examples are easy to reproduce. Additionally there are archive with project files with make reader's life even easier.

This is a good reading for beginners. I've enjoyed reading it.

[Eduardo · Rating 4 out of 5]

The new features for reporting and sharing reports in Project 2013 are really amazing and they are well explained in the book.

If you did read the previous book about 2010, there will be just 3 useful/different chapters (7, 9 and 18) for learn about the new features (reports improvements and task path view).

As the previous book it's a good reading, well written and didatic, but, I still miss more information about project server.

[Alexandre Paiva]

Livro oficial da Microsoft e leitura obrigatória para quem quer conhecer melhor o Microsoft Project 2013. Não pode faltar em sua prateleira.

[Khaled Al-Bahnsawy · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Arwa · Rating 3 out of 5]

boring ....

[Colleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had 4 days to teach myself MS Project for a job interview. This book delivered.

[Rig Sett]

A good book to start up with and getting familiar with all the tools in the software. Also get an understanding of different concepts in Project Management.