Microsoft Project For Dummies

Microsoft Project For Dummies
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Blow past the jargon and get hands-on, practical guidance on managing any project with Microsoft Project  Lean. Agile. Hybrid. It seems that project management these days comes with more confusing buzzwords than ever. But you can make managing your next project simple and straightforward with help from  Microsoft Project For Dummies.  This book unpacks Microsoft’s bestselling project management platform and walks you through every important feature, step-by-step, until you’re ready to take on virtually any project, no matter the size. From getting set up for the first time to creating tasks, managing resources and working with time management features, you’ll learn everything you need to know about managing a project in Microsoft’s iconic software.  You’ll also find:  Totally updated guidance that applies to both the desktop version and Microsoft’s new subscription-based Microsoft Project Online Helpful information on integrating Agile practices and techniques into your project “Golden rules” that keep a project on-track and on-time Ways to effectively manage your resources with Microsoft Project’s built-in functionality Managing a project, big or small, is no easy task. Luckily,  Microsoft Project For Dummies  can take a lot of the hassle out of your day-to-day life. Learn how to take advantage of this powerful software today!

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Cynthia Snyder Dionisio. Microsoft Project For Dummies

Microsoft® Project For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to www.dummies.com and search for “Microsoft Project For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

Introduction

About This Book

What's Not in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Getting Started with Project

Project Management, MS Project, and You

Project Management Evolution

What’s in a Name: Projects, Project Management, and Project Managers

Project managers and Scrum masters

The role of the project manager

The role of the Scrum master

Introducing Microsoft Project

Getting to Know You

Navigating Ribbon tabs and the Ribbon

Displaying more tools

Tell Me What You Want to Do

Starting the Project

Creating the Project Charter

Introducing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Organizing the Work

Starting the Project

Entering project information

Entering the WBS

Indenting and outdenting (a.k.a. promoting and demoting)

Entering tasks

Entering tasks in Gantt Chart view

Entering tasks via the Task Information dialog box

Weighing manual scheduling versus automatic scheduling

Inserting one project into another

Inserting hyperlinks

Becoming a Task Master

Creating Summary Tasks and Subtasks

How many levels can you go?

The project summary task

Moving Tasks Up, Down, and All Around

Moving tasks with the drag-and-drop method

Moving tasks with the cut-and-paste method

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Collapsing and Expanding the Task Outline

Showing Up Again and Again: Recurring Tasks

Setting Milestones

Deleting Tasks and Using Inactive Tasks

Making a Task Note

The Codependent Nature of Tasks

How Tasks Become Dependent

Dependent tasks: Which comes first?

Dependency types

Allowing for Murphy’s Law: Lag and lead time

Setting the Dependency Connection

Adding the dependency link

Words to the wise

Understanding that things change: Deleting dependencies

Estimating Task Time

You’re in It for the Duration

Tasks come in all flavors: Identifying task types

A TASK TYPE EXAMPLE

Effort-driven tasks: 1 + 1 = ½

Estimating Effort and Duration

Estimating techniques

Analogous estimating

Parametric estimating

Three-point estimating

Setting the task duration

Controlling Timing with Constraints

Understanding how constraints work

Establishing constraints

Setting a deadline

Starting and Pausing Tasks

Entering the task’s start date

Taking a break: Splitting tasks

Check Out This View!

A Project with a View

Navigating tabs and views

Scrolling around

Reaching a specific spot in your plan

More Detail about Views

Home base: Gantt Chart view

Resourceful views: Resource Sheet and Team Planner

Getting your timing down with the Timeline

Going with the flow: Network Diagram view

Calling up Calendar view

Customizing Views

Working with view panes

Resizing a pane

Changing the timescale

ZOOMING IN AND OUT

Displaying different columns

Modifying Network Diagram view

Changing what’s in the box

Beautifying diagram boxes

Modifying the Network Diagram layout

Resetting the view

Managing Resources

Creating Resources

Resources: People, Places, and Things

Becoming Resource-Full

Understanding resources

Resource types: Work, material, and cost

How resources affect task timing

Estimating resource requirements

The Birth of a Resource

Creating one resource at a time

Identifying resources before you know their names

Many hands make light work

Managing Resource Availability

Estimating and setting availability

When a resource comes and goes

Sharing Resources

Skimming from resource pools

CREATING SHARER FILES

DROWNING IN THE RESOURCE POOL

Importing resources from Outlook

Working with Calendars

Mastering Base, Project, Resource, and Task Calendars

Setting the base calendar for a project

Understanding the four calendar types

How calendars work

How one calendar relates to another

Scheduling with Calendar Options and Working Times

Setting calendar options

Setting exceptions to working times

Working with Task Calendars and Resource Calendars

Setting resource calendars

Making a change to a resource’s calendar

Creating a Custom Calendar Template

Sharing Copies of Calendars

Assigning Resources

Finding the Right Resource

Needed: One good resource willing to work

Custom fields: It’s a skill

Making a Useful Assignation

Determining material and cost-resource units

Making assignments

Selecting resources from the Resource column

Using the Assign Resources dialog box

Adding assignments in the Task Information dialog box

Shaping the contour that’s right for you

Benefitting from a Helpful Planner

Determining a Project’s Cost

How Do Costs Accrue?

Adding up the costs

When will these costs hit the bottom line?

Specifying Cost Information in the Project

You can’t avoid fixed costs

Entering hourly, overtime, and cost-per-use rates

Assigning material resources

HOW YOUR SETTINGS AFFECT YOUR COSTS

Before You Baseline

Fine-Tuning Your Plan

Everything Filters to the Bottom Line

Setting predesigned filters

Putting AutoFilter to work

Creating do-it-yourself filters

Gathering Information in Groups

Applying predefined groups

Devising your own groups

Figuring Out What’s Driving the Project

Inspecting tasks

Handling task warnings, suggestions, and problems

Negotiating Project Constraints

It’s about Time

Applying contingency reserve

Completing a task in less time

WORKING WITH RISK

Checking dependencies

Managing the availability of resources

Cutting to the chase: Deleting tasks

Trading time for cost

Getting What You Want for Less

The Resource Recourse

Checking resource availability

Deleting or modifying a resource assignment

Beating overallocations with quick-and-dirty rescheduling

Finding help

Leveling resources

TO LEVEL OR NOT TO LEVEL?

Rescheduling the Project

Making the Project Look Good

Looking Good!

Formatting the Gantt Chart

Formatting taskbars

Zeroing in on critical issues

Restyling the Gantt chart

Formatting Network Diagram Boxes

Adjusting the Layout

Modifying Gridlines

Recognizing When a Picture Can Say It All

Creating a Custom Text Field

It All Begins with a Baseline

All about Baselines

Saving a baseline

Saving more than one baseline

Clearing and resetting a baseline

In the Interim

Saving an interim plan

Clearing and resetting an interim plan

Staying on Track

On the Right Track

Tracking Views

Setting the status date

Tracking status with the Task sheet

Using the Tracking table

Tracking buttons

Determining the percent complete

Tracking status with Task Usage view

Tracking status with Resource Usage view

Uh-oh — you’re in overtime

Specifying remaining durations for auto-scheduled tasks

Entering fixed-cost updates

Moving a Task

Update Project: Sweeping Changes

Tracking Materials

Tracking More than One Project

Project Views: Observing Progress

Seeing Where Tasks Stand

Baseline versus actual progress

Lines of progress

Displaying progress lines

Formatting progress lines

Delving into the Detail

Tracking Progress Using Earned Value Management

Viewing the Earned Value table

Earned value options

Calculating behind the Scenes

An abundance of critical paths

You’re Behind — Now What?

Using Project with Risk and Issue Logs

Documenting issues

Printing interim plans and baselines

What-If Scenarios

Sorting tasks

Filtering

Examining the critical path

Using resource leveling (again)

Determining which factors are driving the timing of a task

How Adding People or Time Affects the Project

Hurrying up and making modifications

Throwing resources at the problem

Changing how resources are assigned

Calculating the consequences of schedule modifications

Shifting dependencies and task timing

When All Else Fails

Taking the time you need

Finding ways to cut corners

Spreading the News: Reporting

Generating Standard Reports

What’s available on the Report tab

Dashboard reports

Creating New Reports

Gaining a new perspective on data with visual reports

Creating a visual report

Fine-Tuning a Report

Dragging, dropping, and sizing

Looking good!

Spiffing Things Up

Calling the Printer!

Working with Page Setup

Working with a legend

Getting a good view

Getting a preview

Finalizing your print options

Working on the Timeline

Adding tasks to the Timeline

Customizing the Timeline

Copying the Timeline

Working with Sprints Projects

Setting Up a Sprints Project

Creating a Sprints Project

Enjoying a Whole New View

The Task Board and Task Board sheet

The Sprint Planning Board and Sprint Planning sheet

The Current Sprint Board and Current Sprint sheet

The Backlog Board and the Backlog sheet

Adding Information to Tasks

Prioritizing Tasks

Inserting a Sprints Project into a Plan-Driven Project

Tracking a Sprints Project

Viewing Your Sprints Project Data

Using filters to focus

Using tables to arrange data

Being a groupie

Sorting tasks

Creating Sprints Reports

Getting Better All the Time

Reviewing the Project

Learning from your mistakes

Fine-tuning communication

Comparing Versions of a Project

Building on Success

Creating a template

Mastering the Organizer

The Part of Tens

Ten Golden Rules of Project Management

Roll with It

Put Your Ducks in a Row

Expect the Unexpected

Don’t Put Off until Tomorrow …

Delegate, Delegate, Delegate

Document It

Keep the Team in the Loop

Measure Success

Maintain a Flexible Strategy

Learn from Your Mistakes

Ten Cool Shortcuts in Project

Task Information

Resource Information

Frequently Used Functions

Subtasks

Quick Selections

Fill Down

Navigation

Hours to Years

Timeline Shortcuts

Quick Undo

Glossary

Index. A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Z

About the Author

Author’s Acknowledgments

WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

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Project management has evolved from a discipline that began with index cards and yarn to one that now uses sophisticated analysis techniques, projections, reporting, and time and resource tracking. Project management software offers functionality that makes planning and tracking the complex projects we undertake a little more manageable.

Microsoft Project is one of the most popular project management software applications. It offers a tremendous amount of functionality to users. However, as with most software, mastering it can seem like a daunting process.

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I also assume that you have experience in managing projects. Whether you manage very large projects that are several years long or you have been a team lead on a project, the information in this book is more accessible if you have a background in project management.

I do not assume that you’ve used Project or any other project management software. If you’re new to Project, you’ll find what you need to get up to speed, including information on how Project works, finding your way around the Project interface, and building your first Project schedule. If you’ve used an earlier version of Project, you’ll find out about the current version of Microsoft Project and the features it provides.

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