Microsoft Project 2010 – Fast Learning Handbook E-Book

Rosario Rizzo

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

A handbook full of pictures (249 images and 193 pages), extensively commented using a clear and simple language that will lead to an easy understanding of the main concepts and functionalities which are effectively needed in your daily use of Microsoft Project 2010.As the “Fast learning handbook” subtitle suggests, this handbook goes straight to the heart of the matter and never leads the reader to drift away from which are the key concepts and from how MS Project 2010 works.If you have been using for years the previous versions of Project, this handbook will help you lose the “bad habits” you picked up while using this sophisticated program and will suggest the right approach for the future!This Microsoft Project 2010 handbook I have written focuses on the main aspects of the most sophisticated software available for handling projects in any area (building, production, finance, credit, non-profit, and so on). One of the reasons of the appreciation many customers have expressed is due to the fact that this guide aims at teaching “how to use” these functionalities and it is not an astonishing list of details that is typical of most books about Project (have you in mind the 500 or more page books you can see in the bookshops?).

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Microsoft Project 2010 – Fast Learning Handbook

It covers the Professional and Standard versions of Microsoft Project 2010

© Roberto Rizzo 2013

ISBN: 9788891131607

No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the author.

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Summary

1 Introduction

1.1 Foreword

1.2 How to use this tutorial

1.3 What is Microsoft Project

1.4 Project’s screen

1.5 Microsoft Project 2010 screen’s main elements

1.6 Indicators and Smart Tags

1.7 File Panel’s commands

1.8 Project’s screen’s elements

1.9 New project

1.10 Entering the project’s start and end dates

1.11 Attaching documents to the project

2 Project’s views

2.1 Splitting the views

2.2 Sorting the data

2.3 Grouping the information

2.4 Filtering the data

2.5 Using the automatic filters

2.6 Viewing the details

2.7 Using the zoom

3 Working with Calendars

3.1 Selecting a project calendar

3.2 Base calendars

3.3 Changing the working time

3.4 Creating a new calendar

3.5 Changing the working time

3.6 Handling the working time exceptions

4 Working with Tasks

4.1 Adding a task

4.2 Deleting a task

4.3 Adding a summary task

4.4 Moving a task

4.5 Adding a Milestone

4.6 Organising the tasks in phases

4.7 Linking the tasks

4.8 Multiple links between tasks

4.9 Repeated tasks

5 Managing tasks

5.1 Overlapping and delaying tasks

5.2 Setting the deadlines

5.3 Setting the constraints

5.4 Splitting the tasks

5.5 Task types

5.6 Assigning a calendar to a task

5.7 Understanding the task indicators

6 Managing the Project’s Resources

6.1 Inserting resources into the project

6.2 Adding equipment resources

6.3 Adding material resources

6.4 Modifying a resource calendar

6.5 Using notes for the resources

6.6 Effort driven scheduling

6.7 Assigning resources to the tasks

6.8 Assigning material resources to the tasks

6.9 Assigning Cost resources to the tasks

7 Manual and Automatic Planning

7.1 Top-Down Planning

7.2 Default settings for the scheduling mode of the new tasks

7.3 Quickly changing the scheduling mode

7.4 Task duration

7.5 Entering the task’s duration

8 Working with the resources

8.1 Delaying the use of the resources

8.2 Setting the availability dates for the resources

8.3 Assigning a calendar to a resource

9 Resource leveling

9.1 Resource overallocation

9.2 Resource load manual leveling

9.3 Assigning the overtime hours

9.4 Automatic balancing of the resource load (Leveling)

10 Team Planner

11 Working with costs

11.1 Entering the accrued overtime

11.2 Work phase-dependent rates

11.3 Applying different hourly costs to a resource

11.4 Using materials for the tasks

11.5 Task fixed costs

12 Project implementation

12.1 Replacing the resources

12.2 Saving the baseline

12.3 Updating the whole project

12.4 Tasks’ present value update

12.5 Task percentage update

12.6 Updating the actual work

12.7 Updating the actual costs

13 Variance analysis

13.1 Project statistics

13.2 Viewing the project’s costs

13.3 Displaying the critical path

13.4 Duration variance

13.5 Work variance

13.6 Cost variance

14 Working with reports

14.1 Opening a report

14.2 Customising the report headings

14.3 Report sorting

14.4 Visual reports

15 Working with multiple projects

15.1 Consolidating projects

15.2 Consolidated project statistics

15.3 Resource pool

16 Timeline

16.1 Adding a task to the Timeline

About the author

1 Introduction

1.1 Foreword

After having seen a great number of participants of the Project courses I have held during the last few years, a circumstance common to most of them had clearly arisen, and it’s the fact that almost always the Project Management basics and terminology are lacking. Unless the participants have not already taken part in a course of project management methodology or that themselves are applying project management structured and well defined processes, everyone finds it difficult to follow the logical flow of MS Project’s tasks with the consequence of getting lost within this complex software’s intricate world of commands and menus.