Do more in less time! This book’s packed with intensely useful Project 2013 knowledge, tips, and shortcuts you just won’t find anywhere else. It’s the fastest, best way to master every phase of project management with Project 2013: initiation, planning, scheduling, resource assignments, tracking, revision, completion, and more. You’ll get comfortable with Project 2013’s most valuable new features...master powerful new cloud-based tools for running your projects...even learn to manage complex project portfolios for your entire organization! • Discover what’s new in Project 2013 and get started with new projects fast • Apply project management best practices through Project 2013 • Initiate, plan, and organize projects to maximize your odds of success • Create realistic schedules for your project and all your team members • Define task logic to intelligently link sequences of activities • Identify and eliminate bottlenecks before they interfere with your project • Use Project’s automated scheduling engine to optimize efficiency • Review and tweak your schedule using views, tables, filters, and groups • Track your project’s progress and analyze your performance to date • Adjust resources, tasks, and schedules to reflect project changes • Officially close your project, and evaluate it via Lessons Learned analyses or Earned Value tracking • Tailor Project 2013 to your individual and organizational needs • Leverage Project 2013’s powerful cloud-based collaboration features • Customize reports, including Project 2013’s advanced Visual Reports • Work with multiple projects at once and resolve complex resource allocation problems • Integrate Project 2013 with other Microsoft Office and third-party applications All In Depth books offer • Comprehensive coverage with detailed solutions • Troubleshooting help for tough problems you can’t fix on your own • Outstanding authors recognized worldwide for their expertise and teaching style Learning, reference, problem-solving...the only Project 2013 book you need!

Project 2013 In Depth is the beyond-the-basics, beneath-the-surface guide for every serious Project 2013user who wants to get more done in less time. Renowned Microsoft Project expert Scott Daleyprovides specific, tested, proven solutions to the problems experienced users run into every day: challenges other books ignore or oversimplify. Daley thoroughly explores all aspects of working with Project 2013, including planning, scheduling, resource assignments, budgeting, collaboration, workload analysis, progress reporting, completion, closure, and much more. He especially focuses on tools for efficiently performing complex project management tasks, and on Project 2013's most significant new improvements, including its new cloud, online, and mobile options. Like all In Depth books, Project 2013 In Depth presents comprehensive coverage, breakthrough techniques, exclusive shortcuts, quick access to information, troubleshooting help for tough problems, and real-world examples, with nothing glossed over or left out. Combining learning, reference, and problem-solving, it's the only Project 2013 book you need!

Both an unparalleled reference and an exceptionally practical deskside resource, Office 2013 In Depth is the beyond-the-basics, beneath-the-surface guide for Office 2013 users who wants to maximize their productivity. ¿ Renowned Office 2013 expert and college instructor Joe Habraken delivers specific, proven solutions through a task-based approach that introduces features within the context of how they are used in the real world. Throughout, Habraken illuminates the most valuable new features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Publisher. ¿ Straightforward and conversational, Office 2013 In Depth presents comprehensive coverage, breakthrough techniques, exclusive shortcuts, quick access to information, troubleshooting help for tough problems, and real-world examples with nothing glossed over or left out. Packed with insights, techniques, tips, and shortcuts, it’s all you need to master all these programs: Word 2013, Excel 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Outlook 2013, Publisher 2013, and OneNote 2013! ¿

“More than a how-to book, Dynamic Scheduling® With Microsoft® Project 2013 takes you on a journey from concepts through frameworks and processes and then unleashes the power of Project 2013. Easy to use, the book lays out a solid foundation and the authors masterfully walk you through basic functionality and all the new bells and whistles. Enjoy the ride!” —Scott G. Fass, PMP, Strategy, Operations and PPM Executive Microsoft® Project 2013 is a powerful software tool, and like all tools it requires knowledge and skill to be used to its maximum potential. This fully revised new edition provides users with everything they will need to more easily and effectively manage projects to a successful conclusion. Designed for the busy, practicing project manager, Dynamic Scheduling® With Microsoft®Project 2013 will help you get up to speed quickly with the new and enhanced features of Project 2013 (including Project Pro for Office 365) and enable you to create effective schedules using best practices, tips & tricks, and step-by-step instruction. Through the use of helpful screenshots, hands-on exercises, illustrations, and review questions, this guide instructs you on how to build dynamic schedules that will allow you to explore what-if scenarios and dramatically decrease the time you spend making static schedule changes. “A must read, reread, and use daily for all project managers” is what PMI’s Project Management Journal had to say about previous editions. This updated version is even better!

Infused and informed by in-depth knowledge from the creators of Microsoft Project and Windows, this unique book features a task-based approach which includes step-by-step exercises and three levels of increasingly rigorous lesson-ending activities. --

Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft Project 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to effectively manage all your projects. Here’s WHAT you’ll learn: Develop a project plan and schedule resources Pull together your team and plan their assignments Understand dependencies and mitigate risks Stay on top of progress, delays, and costs Make adjustments and updates quickly Communicate with clear, customized reports Here’s HOW you’ll learn it: Jump in wherever you need answers Follow easy STEPS and SCREENSHOTS to see exactly what to do Get handy TIPS for new techniques and shortcuts Use TRY THIS! exercises to apply what you learn right away